Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-21
HOUSE PASSES ALIEN BILL
MEASURE is APPROVED
WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Deportation Is Provided for All Anil
htrd With or Contribute to Annr-
chIstic Societies.
he Associatcd Prcrs.l

WASHINGTON. De- Gothic lrmi-
grafton Committees bill providing for
the deportation of all aliens an)iated
with oharChis;ic organizations, was
passed to-day by the House. Tho vote
No amendments to the measure were
accepted by the House. an amendment
Pps eossa, 66S,o ESp1gsGnia,iy. weI,y
partment of Justice the duty of invcs-
tigatinE complaints against aliens and
prosecuting cases warranting arrests
having been rejected just before the
vote.
Discussion OF provisions for deporta-
ton OF foreignhorn citizens violating
scdition laws was dropped when it was
explained the Judiciary Committee was
,w9rkins upon comprehensive sed!,ion
Oiit 10 reach all such cases.
Covers Wide Scope.
AS ii passed today. the bill provides
for deportation of all aliens affiliated
with. or who contribute either funds or
advocating sabotage. the overthrow OF
organized government by force, Killing
OF government officials or the unlawful
destruction Of public or private prop
crty.
Urging passage Of :, bill to deport
CARNATIONS advocating overthrow OF
the government, Representative John
son. Republican. Washington. chairman
today declared in the House that ali
foreigners coming to the United States
in the future must come only on pro-
Ills statement indicated that later an
effort would be made to pass lersla-
ton Tor the probationary entry OF for
Through with Alien Reds.
Inc citizens OF the United States
are through with being told by alien
reEolutioniStS communists and anar-
chiSts. who are within our border by
our courtesy and by our grace, how to
run our government" declared Mr..
n 20 1-nit ..l
states is ours. not theirs: free speech
IL ours. not theirs; and they have gone
Thra running our most precious rights.
they have been guests in our house
I.hey have misbchaved most woetully
IheE arc welcome no longer, and thc,.
must go. And those who come from
only on probation"
Eniar@es Deportation Cau.e.,
Explaining the bill. Mr. Johnson said
mat II enlarSes the deportation causes
edit. display or distribute vicious lit
craturc. who are members of organiza-
IONS mat issue revolutionary publica-
propaganda. He predicted that bill
penaiizinS American born persons who
commit s.mil lar acts would soon he pre-
SS.n,ed TO the liousc by its Judiciary
When the Immigration Committee
visited Fills Island recently, Represen-
held there awaiting deportation. dis,
trihuted literature 10 the members. in
Which IL vas urged that "all govern
ment be destroyed. that industries be
sei@cu ana That communes be formed"
Heads Lowe Telegram.
MT: Johnson also read Il telegram
dated Washington. March &c last. and
slrhed by Fredric g. Howe former
COMMISSIONER at Ellis Island, which
stated I, stay in tho deportation OF some
Aliens had been granted by the Assis-
tant Secretary of Labor.
\" nat business did Howe have uo
here in Washington hobnobbinr viii
me Assistant secretary Of Labor 10
take these fellows off ship. who had
Deem ordered dcported under our laws
asked Mr.. johnson. Afterward bo
SAID, the aliens were released on their
own FecogniZancc and Disappeared
some being found later in "a ;de or -
icals' headquarters - -