New-York tribune., 1920-12-02
House Omnittee to Ask
Congress for Immediate
Ban; Alarmed Great
Influx of In, Migrants
Other Less Drastic
Measures Proposed
10000, 600 Europeans
Said To Be Clamorine
to Come to the u. S.

Suspension of all immcration from
EUROPE tor the next two years will
he recommended to Congress next
week by the House Committee on I'M
migra ton. Representative Albert John
son, chairman of the committee. saws
that two-thirds of the members of
both houses, alarmed by the great in
flux of immigrants, are in favor of
immediate restriction of some kind.
He declares that emergency measures
to stem the tide will be reported out
of his committee and laid before Con-
gress as soon as it convenes next Mon
day.
Besides q measure for immediate e
suspension of igraton, other bills
less drastic are being prepared by the
committee. They provide for:
Exclusion of all immigrants except
agricultural workers who, upon their
arrival must depart for regions where
they have procured employment in ad-
vance.
Admission only of professional work
ers, skilled artisans and blood rela-
tives of naturalzed Americans.
Ask Strict Literacy Test
Lteracy and health tests so strin-
gent as 20 exclude about so per cent
of all Immigrants.
Authorization to the United States
Consuls abroad to require applicants
for yises on passports to prove their
qualifications before embarking for
America.
With evidence before it showing that
never before were there SO many Euro
peans seeking residence in the United
States, that the new arrivals are fast
approaching in number the high record
reached just before the war, and that
it's school congestion and other eco
nomic p.ob,y is receiving mora for
eigners than y can properly assimilate,
Congress, Mr.. Johnson says, will be
informed that the immigration prob
lem viii be one Of the most vital it will
be called upon to solve.
The best statistics available indicate
that 100000 persons in Europe want
to emigrate to the United States. OF
these 100000 are Italians. More than
! ,O00,0 persons in Central Europe
chiefly Austrians and Hungarans who
have taken citizenship under republics
dismembered from the former Austrian
empire, are clamoring for passports.
Applicants Fight for Passports
Holland is overrun with prospective
cmigrants, many Of whom arc from
Russia and Eastern Europe, and in
Danzis, the port Of Poland, where 311,-
900 persons already have procured
passports, but have been unable to OBJ
tain stecraee passage, the condition is
said to approach panic. Lines of 200
to 300 applicants daily confront the
United States consul for vises on pass
ports, while in front of the Foreign
Office, where passports are issued. DO
sitions are fought for and the local
police have been called upon to sun
press riots.
Elghty seven per cent of all ilnmi-
grants arrive by way Of New York
THE arrivals now total about $4,000 a
month. Ihey are increasing at a rate
which viii soon equal that for the year
ending June so, 1914, when the adj
mission of ,lSe immigrants estab-
iished a new record.
Frederick A. Wallis, immigration
Commissioner at Ellis Island, says he
has been informed by seventeen steam
ship lines that they have enough appli-
cants for tickets to fiji their stccrage
capacity for the next ten years. He
says that enough EN- mgrants are waiting
in European port; to supply this coun-
tInIied q thrnc