The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-05
other districts of the old Russia.
$3.50 Aliens Are Excluded.

other districts of the old Russia.
$3.50 Aliens Are Excluded.
During the nine months covered by
the report $3.50 aliens were excluded
at the ports Of entry and deported,
3,943 of these as likely to become pub
lie charges, $50 as illiterate, 553 as
contract laborers and 1850 In excess
Of quotas. More than 1000 In excess
Of quota were admitted because of
acknowledged unusual hardships'' In
ficted by the mandatory exclusion law.
Under warrant 3,345 aliens who had
already entered the country were ar
rested and sent out, the majority hav-
ing become public charges or crimi-
nails.
Officials Of the present administra-
ton at Washington are elated over
the outcome of the first years opera
ton of the Dillingham; law. Repre-
sentative Albert Johnson, chairman of
the committee on immigration and nat
uralization, house of representatives,
inspected Ellis island recently.
New Law Came Just In Time.
Here is what he said of his trip:
"In my opinion the act limiting i'm
migration to 355, 900 for the fiscal year
ending June 80 came in the nick of
time. 1t has saved the United States
In that year from an influx of fully
100000 immigrants at a time when
we could neither assimilate nor employ
them.
"Under the quota restrictions 23O,537
,,arn o1,ttxol % Mo-. o. ..LtIo olo,&
, 2,787 were admitted temporarily for
reasons of humanity and because of
difficulties in getting the new law into
operation, while LAC were turned back
because of exhausted quotas. Debarred
for all causes in eleven months were
II, 066, which l believe Is the record,
and is still not enough. Too many
diseased, demented and defective are
being admitted.
1.-THE law has been extended, and
during the coming year will be rigidly
enforced. l believe congress would be
justified in amending the law sc as
to give all countries a base quota of
about 600, and in addition thereto not
to exceed . per cent of the number of
aliens in the United States as shown
by the census of 1910. That would
lessen the difficulties arising from
small quotas now given to certain
countries and would decrease the large
quotas awarded to other countries.
Would Admit Only EIiglbIes.
81 believe that all quotas should con-
sist only of persons eligible to citizen
ship under our present naturalization
laws. An amendment to that effect
would end the difficulties which arise
from our 'gentleman's agreement with
Japan. There Is no reason why we
should admit to become residents of
the United States persons who never
can become citizens of the United
States.
MANY persons wonder why the per-
centage restriction law has not been
frightened up and made more binding.
Some ask why congress has not en-
acted a law completely suspending i'm.
migration for a period of years. Let
me remind all of these questioners that
it took more than twenty-five years of
continuous effort to get a law even as
restrictive as the three per cent act.
Each and every bill designed really
to restrict immigration passed by SEN
ate and house from the first days of
the administration of Grover Cleveland
to the last days of Woodrow Wilson
was vetoed for some reason or other
usually because the proposed law In
terfered with that ~nonsensical notion
that the United States was always to
be the asylum for the oppressed of
the world.
Law Came Just in Time.
1.-THE three per cent act ended the
asylum idea just in time to prevent
the United States from becoming the
almshouse of the world (run by It's
inmates) and l desire to give full cred
it to the members of the house immi-
grafton committee, of which l have the
honor to be chairman, for sticking to
the idea of restriction, and for forcing
forward a bill which refused to die
until 1t was superseded by the Dilling-
ham act, which both houses passed and
which President Harding signed.
II hold the firm belief that the Unit
ed States will never go back to any
oNAAtlit lidI ~ htitpid Liz ILL
counted millions of the four corners
of the world to our young, new coun-
try, in which, with its billions of acres
of land and resources yet untouched,
fathers and mothers are even now ly-
ing awake nights wondering what Is
to become of their children"
Under the Dillingham; acts the gates
of the United States are now closed
and have been closed for several
months to the following countries: All
African lands, Atlantic islands, Aus
tralia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Hun
gary, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Luxembourg,
other Asia, other Europe, Palestine,
Poland, New Zealand, Rumania, Swift
erland, Syria, Turkey and the Smyrna
district.