The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-17
FEWER IMMIGRANTS
SAYS w. w. HUSBAND
Operation Of Dillingham; Law Is Keep
ing Out Undeslrables, Commits
sioner Declares

Washington, March 17.--"If com
mon report may be believed the per
centum limit law Is holding back hun
dreds OF thousands OF Europeans who
would otherwise come to the United
States, says Commissioner Of Immi.
grafton w. w. Husband obviously
this is Just what Congress intended,
and If the same restrictive policy is
to be continued it would probably be
impossible to find a more simple and
effective means to that end than is
afforded by the operation of the per
centage."
The Dillingham; immigration law,
passed last year placed immigration
for the ensuing year on the basis Of
3 per cent Of the number of country.
men OF those seeking admission now
IN the United States This law went
into effect June 3rd, 1921. Is days
after its approval by the President,
and very shortly about 1000 aliens
in excess of the quotas allowed for
that month were seeking admission
at United States ports Each OF
these aliens was entitled to full eX-
animation under the general immigra-
tion law, including an appeal to the
Secretary Of Labor, Says Mr.. Hus'
band. "To have handled the matter
in the regular way should have re.
quired several weeks or even months,
and Secretary Of Labor Davis took
the only sens BILE course when he
directed that the immigrants should
be temporarily admitted and charged
against the quotas of later months.
AS a matter of fact only about 1000
immigrants have been actually deport-
ed under the Dillingham; law, accord
ing to the Commission, while some
what more than twice that number
have been temporarily admitted and
are now in the country waiting pos
sible Congressional action which Will
make their permanent admission pos
sible.
Mr. Husband is anxious for early
LEGISLATION if the present system is TO
be extended another year, in order
that all interests may have ample
time in which to prepare for the ac-
t,yities Of the next fiscal year. "A
measure to extend the law for ona
year has been passed by the House OF
Repre7entatiyes, and now awaits
Senate act Meanwhile the Demo
Gratis are apparently engaged in a
piecemeal filibuster to retard con
structive legislation. The value OF
The time killed by them in wrangling
over the Yap treaty was greater thap
the island. -
1 II is apparent that the Administra'
tion has dealt lenlently with imml
grants whose quotas were exhausted
and Il does not appear that those
foreign shipping concerns who seem
TO have brought in passengers Know
inc they would not be admitted have
been harshly penalized for the greed
that made Eel is Island bulging ware
house Of humanity during the holl'
davs But II the law as extended is
nassed in good time no one can avail
Of the excuse Of being caught unpre'
pared. -,
MF Husband suggests some I'M
movements in the law which can oe
secured by way of amendment, but
once the law is extended there would
seem no valid excuse for not observ'
ING II to the letter. There are a large
number of Americans who be-
lieve the law should be made per
manent or at least extended over q
lone nerIod. Its operation during the
nnvt | wear may strengthen that opin
ion Most of tho social troubles we
hovo experienced during the past
four or FIVE yeare have been traceable
~ the lurid political formulas and pro
naganda of fore gners all to freely
Granted admission to this country and
narcoticized by an Adminlsudt on
which sported the Democratic label
but which was strange compound ol
sklm milk and wool alcohol After
we have assimilated the present pie
thora Of South Eastern Europe there
viii he time enough to discuss the ad
visibility Of again taking the gate
off their hinges.