Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-19
6.
 Asks Prosee f,'oIl : Of the Cui.4rd Line.
Secretary of Labor Davis Charges Attempt to Violate the Immigration Law.

Washington, Dec. 1S-Secretary ct Labor Davis has ordered fines to the limit of the statute assessed against the British Cunard Steamship Line and has asked the state department to make diplomatic representations to the Eng lish government against what he offici ally classed as bold, and I believe. a knowing attempt on the part of the com pany to violate the immigration Flaw either because of the, paltry i2rofts to be gained thereby or to discredit our immigration policy
 The circumstance complained of arises out of the arrival on December 10 at New York of the liner Aquitana with 300 Hungarian immigrants, despite~that on December 1 the immigration bureau had announced to all steamship lines thal the quota of immigrants from Hungary legally entitled to enter the United States up to July 1922, was exhausted Mir Davis has likewise addressed a let ter to Attorney General Daugherty, asking for legal opinion as to what ac- tion can be taken In "an appalling sit uation which has arisen by the reckless disregard of the law by steamship com panes'
 Since the enforcement of the new inn migration act which limits the number of aliens entitled to enter the United States in any one year to a definite per i cent cf the number of that nationality already resident in the United States, the immigra tion authorities have been | in practically constant controversy with l steamship lines, which they have charg- ed with deliberate intent to make ths | law futile. The situation has been en- | livened by midnight races to the port of entry between vessels carrying immi- l grants cargoes from countries whose i dwindling quotas made it probable that arrivals on the last vessels would be excluded and deported '@The chief offender in this instance k | the Cunard Liner Aquitania," Mir. Davis said in his letter of protest to Secretary | of States Hughes, which arrived a New York on CT about December J. i with somewhat more than 300 cf th., nationality (Hungarian) on board. Thi.
 vessel is said to have sailed from Cher
 bourg on or about December 1, it be ing understood that the Hungarian,
 were embarked at this port. Some ac.
 these aliens were admissible under ex
 emptions found in the law, but at tn last count 204 of them had been fount
 to be mandatorily excluded from admis
 sion.
 @"........ The Cunard Line has been
 so the commissioner of immigrat' in
 forms me, one of the principal offend
 CTS against the quota law, anS up to thi
 time every possible 4eniancy has bee
 shown, In this case. the actions seem
 to have been deliberate. No ac
 c7unt seems to have been taken by tn
 company involved of the known hard
 ships and probable deportation tha
 Wuld be inflicted upon the innocent i'm
 migrants concerned. to say nothing C the sorr2w and anxiety which. the ac
 was certai1/to bring to the friends an : relatives of the immigrants awaitin l them in the United States I am bring
 ing the matter to your attention in tn
 hope sxep will consider it wise to addres
 a pgast to the British government wit } the @st that seme action be take Iih prevent the Cunard Compan : rom fts'rF violation of our. inrnigrs s tiSp Vs;