The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-20
JOKER IN IMMIGRATION BILL PERMITS
WHOLESALE DEPORTATONS, UNION CHARGES

Immigration Saturday by Walker PolaL, New York at
torney, representing tha Liberties Union
The JOKER according the Union, is contained in
Section % of the BILL which puts the burden of proof
any individual whose right "to in the United
States" is challenged According the argument pre-
sented to the Committ it applies equally to citizens
and aliens and would require anyone challenged pre-
pari elaborate defense of his right this
country.
brief the law and the practical dangers of the
section by Walter Pollak and Albert DeSilver sub
mitted the Senate Committee behalf the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Unon with the request that the
words "or remain be stricken from the bill.
Under this section the attorneys declare the mere
charge of depotable oense against American citi
alien would force him the burden of prov
ing his innocence contrary to the presumption of inno
cence, of the strongest known to law"
"a could be deported unless she could prove
that four five years before and at place perhaps
5000 miles away she had been guilty of prostitution
connection with prostitution the brief
"A who lives in Portland, Maine, might be suddenly
threatened with deportation Galveston, Texas, by
of real fancied in Seattle Wash
ington.
The brief makes five points against the section They
1st. 1t would make possible deportation in the
entire absence of evidence and would therefore be
stitutional I'd violate all settled practices
and presumption of orderly procedure; 3D. 1t is incon
sisten with basic principles of both constitutional and
common law, and would create mmeasurable confusion in
practice 4th 1t would involve intolerabe hardship to
and obscure persons and the for private
and official corruption and tyranny 5th 1t is without
example, in jurisprudence the Chinese Exclusion Act
which provides for judicial and not summary admins
trative action and affords the alien definite mechanism
for establishing his right-constitutes precedent
Citizens aliens challenged to prove their right to
remain in thd United States would have prove their
sanity freedom from disease and innocence of crime
cording the attorneys THE citizen alien be
deported if there witnesses against him.
There may be hearing in the He will lose
his right in the United States although there
is scrap of evidence against him The fact
that there is evidence in his favor will be fatal"
Under the proposed tiOn the burden is
American citizen sin any proceeding under the immigra
on laws establish the very fact of his citizenship
the brief declares. he protection today against
unfounded charges is the fact that witnesses be
sworn against him. That requirement the pending bill in
effect
.rhe possibilities of oppression corruption and black
mail if the burden of establishing his right to remain
rested upon every individual even upon every alien
are infinite
The bin, which threatens these consequences would
if enacted the the United States
subvert all legal principles of procedure, admin
strative judicial would confuse the immigration law
in practice would lay the foundation for infinite
timidaon, oppression and corruption both private and
official
i SPEAKING the Committee of the Whole in Con-
gres January 29h Congressman Taylor only
an interesting talk but a most eloquent when he
favored the increases of appropriation for better
supply for Mesa Verde National Park He had fertile
subject and many other beautiful things he sad
the House in this good year Of our Lord 1924 with ali
the accumulated intelligence of all the ages
day most kindly granting 81 600 to provide for the
sumption this coming of the identical
methods that that mysterious prehistoric people
the Cliff Dwellers probably using when Christ
born this earth
/ To there is weird mystery and a never-ending
fascination about the Cliff Dellers 1t the
lost leaf in the history of western world There
an indescrbable charm and limit the flight of
agnation when you visit the very homes
these prehistoric people
There is more enchanted land in the world than
this plateau of the Southwest the
Verde National Park. Here antiquity challenges the
entsts of this earth search for the footprints of the
Almighty and to chart the shore lines of the departed
centuries
and possibly during the King Tuankamen perod-there
lived in that region large population of human beings
who hourished and then disappeared We call them cliff
dweers because know of other name Who
we're these peculiar people?
Il Where did they from?
When did they live there?
/ How long did they live there?
i When did they leave there?
| Why did they leave?
i Where did they go?
Echo answers 'Where?"
No human being knows We only guess Some
day hope and believe will learn the to these
questions and be able the mysteries of the ORIGIN
the life the habits the destiny of that ex
nct and lift the veil of obscurity learn what
manner of human beings they up to this time
all the archeologsts ethnologists geologsts other
scientists in the world unable apy one of
those questions - - -
SEEKING THE LIGHT
II NEW YORK state made an honest and straipbtfor.
ward effort to protect wokingwomen provided for
limited hours of employment sanitary conditions and