Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-05-30
MAY TRY TO PASS
AN EXCLUSION BILL
CONGRESS Is ALMOST SURE TO
ADOPT SOME IMMIGRATION
LEGISLATION SOON.
ITS A TICKLISH SUBJECT
Northern Members Not So Free to Act
as the southerners-Bomb Plot In
oreases the Chances for a Drastic
Measure.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.

BY EDWARD q. CLARK,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at its extra |
session will undertake immigration
legislation, which at all times has
been charged with dynamite. but
which this time will be charged with
INT.
immigration legislation scares every
politician north of the Mason and
Dixon line. Most southern representa-
tives In congress can vote for total ex-
clusion of all would-be immigrants
and never stir more than a ripple of
opposition among their constituents.
Northern representatives cannot do
this except in the cases of a few men
VINO represent districts which to a
considerable extent are constituted
barring the negro-like the constitu-
encies of the South. Republicans and
Democrats in congress have voted on
many occasions against certain restric-
tive legislation of which at heart they
were in favor. They voted as they did
to save themselves at the polls.
When labor began to demand more
drastic immigration legislation, con-
gressInen paid heed and voted in con-
siderable measure for the reading and
writing restriction which finally be-
came a law after the bill containing
it had been vetoed three times. Pres
ident Taft and President Wilson, men
of opposite parties, did the vetoing,
but the measure finally was passed by
the required two-thirds majority over
the present presidents 81 forbid"
May Offer Bill Like Burnett's.
Representative Burnett, Democrat,
of Alabama, in the last congress was
chairman of the house committee on
immigration. He proposed that no
foreigner, with the exception of a cer-
tain few commercial classes and 9th
ers, be permitted to come to this
country fo- five years. 1t is probable
that n measure of this kind will be
introduced at the extra session of
congress, but the chances are that it
will not have Republican. sanction. 1t
will come in as an Offset bill to be pre-
sented by some member who is willing
to take a longer stride than his col
leagues.
Recent anarchistic manifestations
seem to have moved the Republican
majority to a willingness to go farther
in restrictive legislation than three
weeks ago it was thought possible. 1t
Is impossible to say just what form
the legislation will take, but the feel
1 f,.rr {e, IuA ~ 4.
solute exclusion will be set. something
! will be done to prevent the entry into
this country of men who are perfectly
able to pass the reading and writing
test, but who could not pass any test
Of loyalty to any existing form of gov
ernment The desire will be to keep
out the anarchists and the potential
anarchists, and 1t is admitted that the
literacy test is of little avail with
these classes.
Representative Burnett. who put in
the five-year exclusion bill, received q
bomb the other day through the mails
SO did ex-senator Hardwick of Geor.
gia, who was active in Immigration
legislation. The fact that these two
men were recipients of bombs will dc
something to make more determined
the men of the coming congress who
will have immigration matters II
charge. Bombings and attempted
bombings always work that way. The,
tend to bring about the things which
the bomb senders and bomb thrower'
seek to prevent.
White House Made Whittier.
Today in Washington the White
House stands lonely. The only
scenes of activity within its wall:
are, to make a bull not within 1T
, walls, or certainly not within its wall!
: proper, for the only life visible is il
the offices of the annex where Secre
! tary Joseph P. Tumulty and Assistan
/ Secretaries Rudolph Forster ant
= Thomas W. Brahaney and big stat
, of clerical assistants daily are at work
> The White House has been treate,
\ to new coat of paint, and it stand
' white and glistening in the May sun
r shine. Every second year, or, at tn
D longest, every third year, the painter
4 come and put a white overcoat on til
old house. 1t was paint which CAV
the building the name of White House
AS every American presumabl
! knows, the White House grounds ar
' directly opposite Lafayette square
] separated therefrom by the broa
= reach of Pennsylvania avenue. In tn
q absence of the president and his fan
e lily visitors are not admitted to tn
e White House, nor; in fact, have the
{ been admitted for long time becaus
= of existing war conditions. Soon, hov
+ ever, it is believed that restriction
!. will be off and that the old mansio
d with its treasures will be thrown ope
s in all its parts except the actual livin
: quarters to the visitors from her
there and everywhere.
From the White House to Lafayett
square being only a step. nearly a
e the spring visitors, and their name
J. multitude, who are coming into Was
r ington at this season turn after vie
y of the White House to wander throue
Is the square and then to look upon Il
II Rna old houses with their hiStOr