Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-15
ELLIS ISLAND END
] APPEARS
European Nations Clamor for
American inspection on
! Other Side.
BY FREDERIC wILLIAM,wILE.

Doom of Ellis Island as he chief
port OF inspection for immigrahts.,i Is
In slgr.v Siuropean governments are
clamoring for general institution OF
the system. now successfully on triai
in the British Isles, for examination
Of American bound er'igrants before
their departure from Europe. Inc
United States Government Is NOT
averse TO the suggestion. DurlhS
the three months of experiment WIN
Transatlantic inspection OF Wouid-pe
American citizens in Great piit
and Ireland unqualifiedly satisfactory
results have been obtained. Virtually
no emigrant examined on the othe,
side has been rejected on ARRIVAL
here.
Heartbreaks, common under the
old system, have hee- averted. EA-
pense and other personal harushipS
have been ohviated. From every
Standardization that Of the emisraht
and from that of Uncle Sam-the new
deal is working out brilliantly We.
Law Gives Authority =
NJ ar,endrent Of the 1924 ima1igfas
ton laws is necessary to permit sec
retary kellogg and Secretary James
! Davis, acting respectively for the
state and Labor Depay,merts. to eN-
tend to other counties the. syS EN-
established in the British Isles on
October l. Other countries have "a L
ready indicated their desire tor va
America n British plan. If 1t is even
tuauy adopted-and Washington I'M
migration authorities are confident u
will be-it would mean, Che ,praciicai
rehabilitation of Ellis Island. The
historic gateway TO Free America,
adjacent to the Statue OF r5,aDertS.
might still serve as the landing place
of imnligrants. But 1t would no
longer be the important INSTITUTION
II has been for so many years. Inc
10000 900 plant" that 1t now com
prises could be utilized for other Fed-
eral purboses-perhaps as our prln-
cipal airport on the northern Atlantic
coast. Ellis Island. as operated today,
costs the Treasury about 81 100000
wear The vast bulk of that sum
would be unnecessary If emigrant tN'
animation takes place In Europe,
rather than in America. Those behlnd
the Coolidge economy program are
expected to see value and virtue IN
the scheme for universal European
emigrant inspection.
Four Phases of Scrutiny.
Not the slightest dangery.phYr slcal
moral or political-is seen BY Amer
lean immigration officials in hsIinE all
future citizens of the United states
passed on in Europe. The EnCilsh'
Scotch WEIGH and Irish who nave
come through under the new system
during the past three months under
went no fewer than four separate
phases Of scrutiny. These are. % ap-
proval by the American consular au-
thorities, to whom the first appiica'
ton must he made. t2) examination
bv the immigration officers of the
United States, specially stationed on
the other side for that purpose; Is, eX-
animation by the European or Amer.
lean steamship companYs medlcal
ofHcers. and az final approval by rep
resentatives Of the United States Pub
lics Health Service on duty In the Brit
tsh Isles The steamship companies
re Americas ea2le-eyed allies in I'M
migrant inspection. They must pay
Uncle Sam a fine Of $1,000 for every
Immigrant brought, over who eventu-
afI.- has to he sent back. and. in addi-
tibh. the company must take. hlm
back OF the 1880 or $4,000 British
and Irish who have Joined us this
Autumn and Winter as good as none
has had to be returned, inspection
on their native soil wax nearly 100
per cent perfect.
1t can be stated on authority that
no drastic amendment Of the new i'm
migration laws Is at all likely at this
session Of Congress, except amend
ments of a so-called 'huma nizing
nature. These will carry out the
recommendations in President Cool
idge's message. They will aim prin-
cipally at making 1t possible for the
relative of aliens already here to
come over and join them. This ap-
plies especially 10 wives and minor
children. Parents over so years of
age are also to be specially admitted.
Persons in none of these categories
existing quotas. They will all come
under the non-quota category. 1t Is
also proposed that the age limit Of
a admissible children of aliens already
in America shall-be raised from is to
81. ~:
II has been estimated that When
these "humanizing" amendments TO
the law are enacted 1t will not mean
an addition of more than 1000 per-
sons year at the oiitsfde to the
grand total of Immigrant now allow
ed to come. There Will be some op-
position to the "huma nizing" propo-
sails, it is expected 1t will be raised
by so-called immiera ton super pa :
triots. who would like TO put stop.
once for all, to any more immigra-
ton of any kind fromS anywhere on
earth. and build a Chinese wall
around all our coasts and frontiers
But their voices will not prevail. in
all proba bility. Neither will the
voices of radical groupsnow agtating
for drastic Increase in the quotas of
their nationalistic brethren.