Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-07-14
MOT VERY STRICT
LIMITING ALIENS
Commissioner Husband
Hears Newspapers Not
Sticking to Facts
USE OWN DISCRETION
Steamship Lines xeld Responsible for
Most of the Trouble-Cabin Pas
scngers Held on New York Liners

Wicl.4trgi..cn. J,iiy 14.--Tte new In
nsig! a':.:cIa cic,. is not being merci.ess-
| IJy enforced, according to w. w. Hus-
band, Commissioner rof Immigration,
AMI the tHIfficultiTe stralt have develop
! ed IN the first weeks Of the a;tm;n:s-
| ,ta.i.gcn cf the act ane loe:1rg rapidly
removed. Molie than THAT, MIR. Husband
seiStl this evening that he weus advised
by FlIs Island that the newspapers
have exaggerated the troubles IL: tIhe
pert eff New York.
"TIne law permits tine department a
measure CT riEsoretaon which has been
exercised where lit waLs deserved" Gem
missioner H,ustan;l said. THE act
went into effect JUNE 3 and prcv.d-
! es tha,. not more than 8 per cent. Of
! the numoer of naticra!s Of 4 foreign
c;a,fftry living here according TO the
cer,sus CT 1910 should be ay,nl:tte:, ~
one year. Net mere than 20 rsr cs!tt.
cf the nationals of foreign country
entitled to admission N cne year .sliall
be admitted in any cne month. Bta.
we may issue temporary permits to
excess raticraIs to land, and have
done so.
''In June, the first mCnth of tine law
there were more of the rat. cara'!s CT
scme ccunt,iies applying fol perniS-
SIGN than could be allowed to ortea'.
under the s.liiot letter Of the law. But
as .infclmsattio nHbcut the law was net
general, we permitted the excess CT rsa
llcnaIts applying 10 come in, and chang
ed the excess against the quotas Gf
ilhe respective n2rtion!s for the FISCAL
yesr' tIhat started July /. To illustrate
if we permitted 10 more mationals of q
| given coUaltly to ccme ir during June
thsry itlre law ,aNcmed we VIII ltake 10
Gift ,..ine number THAI may come II dur
ing the year beginning jolly /.
I'VE have just had cn cur hands
I:n excess number of persons frGm ter
.;'to,;ies that used to be N the Turkish
na:jon. Ther'a wele crly a few i5l the
exct:is; they probably had no know
1adee eff iuhe law tiha. has been enact
ed when they Started ANIL i seemed
r::.a,d arl unjust to send bhem 'oack
ever irkyst great distance. So we let
them come i'm, and charged :he rrnn-
Der eff them against the TuAiish quata
! fer the new fiscal year.
"But that sort 'of tiirg cannct go
crn, because i'm some cases the quota
rcn the rev fiscal year might soon be
used. l 9Jawe mo idea, however, that
cause for it VII lcontinue. The sr.eam-
ship companies are responsible for
part cf the trouble so far, AMI they
must prevarit future trouble by co
/
operating a'Td seeing that no nrca1e i'm
migrants of each natic,taity are start
ed fer our shores than can be receW-
! ed under the law No one else can d
tl;at. And ] am glad to say that the
steamship companies abready have
s.slrted to cooperate, and aItIl:k they
WIN take carte of that ei%I Of the sit
ratacn.
"As to the Mauretania's passcn-
gers, about which good dca! has
ben said. and written in the last few
hcyrs, :. | am advised by New York
that all of her passengers who are
entitled to land have landed al
though the ship did not reach auar-
antine until last night. Everything
considered 1, ] thirk that is rather
fast work. The trouble about the
IATaurctania; started because there
were some Englishmen on board
who were not allowed to land al the
same time as our own citizens and
who were delayed . few hours. until
oil provisions of tie new law had
/ been carried out. ...-;r,.,
/ 81 have just lad a, selerhone con-
persation with Ellis 1sland ard Tam
told. that The newspapers have ex.
:aggeratcd-the situation" - .-2-',
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