The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-31

NEW YORK, Dec. 30-Some of the defects of the Ellis Island and seven recommendations which the congress tional committee will make to the house for frightening up" of immi- grafton regulations throughout the United States, particularly as they ap- ply to anarchists, bolshevists and other ultra radicals, were indicated here today by officials of the United States Immigration Station and by Representative Isaac Siegel, a member of the committee which has been in- vestigating this port of entry.
 These recommendations, according to Mr. Siegel, will include CD Natur- alization Courts in large cities; CD a method of requiring all young Amer icans to take the oath of allegiance upon reaching 21 years; (3) abolition of the office of Comm .ssioner Gener al of Immigration; (4) appointment of an Assistant Secretary of the depart ment of labor to supervise all immi- grafton affairs; (5) madatory legisla- tion providing for more rigid inspec- tion at Ellis Island, where 80 per cent of incoming aliens arrive; (6) a mill tary immigration patrol on the Cana dian and Mexican borders; CD more drastic penalty for slip owners who al 0f fN h sert.
 "You can't tell Red by looking at him." declared one of the Ellis Island officials. "You can't catch a Red by crosseXamining him. They are too shrewd. It is only after they have been in the country for a sufficient length of time that you discover their pernicious beliefs and when you do no time should be lost in deporting them. No examination, prior to entry can give the protection intended by the law. It is necessarily perfunctory and ineligible aliens are bound to slip through because of our wrong meth ods."
 New York has the biggest immigra- tion station in the country, he said, the others being Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Fran cisco, and Seattle, Wash Norfolk, Virginia, and Galveston, Texas, are ports of entry with inspection officers but are not classed as stations like Ellis Island and the rest. It is con- paratively easy to shut out the men, tally and physically defective when they come in at these big ports, said Congressman Siegel, but the big prob desirable aliens over our Northern and Southern borders.
 Inadequate as our immigration machinery may be in New York and other ports,' said the Congressman, ''it is much more effective than our machinery we have along the inter- national boundary lines of Canada and Mexico. We have no means of knowing how many men and women hostile to American institutions and democratic government have surrep- titiously entered the United States i Still another means of illegal ingress has been made for Reds to ship as sailors and desert upon reaching this country. Under our present law the ship owners can be penalized by a | fine of $1O only. We purpose making i the penalty more stringent"
 The house committee, MT. Siegel said, will recommend the establish ment of the Naturalization Court so that Federal and other judges, whose time is taken up with hearing hun i dreds of civil and criminal cases, may be relieved of a task of immense i'm | portance to the countrys welfare but which, by the very nature of things at present, is generally sighted from sheer judicial necessity.
 Last year, MT. Siegel said, the gov ernment realized a net profit from naturalization fees of $450,OOO and the profit to date since the beginning of the immigration service has beenI $1O,00000O. Such court, it was said,