The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-17
TO TIGHTEN Up
IMMIGRATION
III
Congressional Committee
Makes Report on Condi-
tiOns at Ellis Island
EVERYONE TO TAKE
ALLEGIANCE OATH
More Rigid Inspection of Immigrants
Needed - Will Recommend Reor-
ganization of Immigration Bureau
Wants Naturalization Court.

NEW YORK, Dee. l7.--.Some of the
defects Of Ellis Island and seven recon-
mendations which the congressional
committee will make to the house for
Tightening up of immigration reg
ulations throughout the United States,
particularly as they apply TO anarchists,
Bolshevists and other ultra radicals,
were indicated here today by officials
of the United States immigration sta
ton and by Representative Isaac
Siegel, member of the committee
| which has been investigating this port
OF entry.
These recommendations, according to
| Mr.. Siegel will include u Naturahz-
alton courts in large cities; (2) 4 meth
Cd of requiring all young Americans to
take the oath of allegiance upon reach
| ing y years; 90 abolition of the Of
| fee of commissioner general of immi
| grafton; ~ appointment of an assist
ant secretary Of the department OF Ia
Dor TO supervise all immigration affairs;
| 90 mandatory legislation PROV idng for
more rigid inspection NJ Ellis Island
where 50 per cent Of incoming aliens
arrive; Co 4 military immigration pa,
troll on the Canadian and Mexican Dor
dcrS; 90 more drastic penalty for ship
owners who permit alien members Of
crews 10 desert
lyon can Z tell Red by looking at
him. declared one OF the Ellis Island
officials. = you can I catch Red by
cross examining him They are far too
willy and shrewd 1t is only after they
have been in the country for Il suffi
cient length OF time that YOU discover
their pernicious beliefs and when YOU
do no time should he lost in deportinc
them. No examination, prior to entry
can give the protection intended by the
law. Il is necessarily perfunetory and
ineligible aliens are bound to sir
through heca1se Of our wrong meth
: DDS. e.s"GuIi s4IAh.
New York has the biggest immiera
tion station in the country, he said
the others being IT Boston, Baltimore
Philadelphia. View Orleans. San Fran
cisco and Seattle. Wash Norfolk. ya.
and Galveston, Tex. are ports of entr1
with inspection officers but are not
ciassed as stations like Ellis IslanC
and the rest. II is comparatively cas-,
to shut out the mentally and physical
" defective when they come in a
these big ports. said Congressman Sieg
el. but the big problem is to preyen
the entrance Of undesirable aliens oye
our northern and southern borders.
The house committee. Mr. Sicgel said
| will recommend the establishment o
the naturalization court 50 that fedora
and other Judges, whose time is takel
up with hearing hundreds of civil an,
criminal eases. may be relieved OF
task Of immense Importance to III
country : welfare but which, bv tn
very nature OF things at present, i
generally Sighted from sheer iadicia
necessity.
; Last year. Mr.. Segel said. the GOV
eminent realized a net profit from mt
: uralization fees of $450.000 and tn
profit to date since the beginning of I'll
, | immigration service has been 10000
! | 600. Such n court, it was said. eoul
expedite hearings and "undesirables
| instead of being released on their ow
reeognizanee or paroled in the eustod
of their lawyers, could be ordered do
ported within 30 DAYS