laborers, if their evidence shall be required in the prosecution of the contractor for their services.

The period of time within which an alien who has become a public charge from causes existing prior to landing may be deported is now one year. Section 21 extends this period to three years, dividing the cost of deportation during the two additional years between the immigrant fund and the municipality or corporation seeking relief from the burden of such public charge. It also requires the steamship company which brought any such alien to pay one-half of the cost of the inland transportation of such alien to the seaport of return during the year in which it is charged with the cost of his deportation.

Section 22 imposes a fine upon any steamship company which neglects or refuses to execute the Secretary's warrant for the deportation of aliens found unlawfully in the United States.

In section 23 the duty is imposed upon the Commissioner-General of Immigration of detailing officers to secure information of the number of aliens in the penal, reformatory, and charitable institutions in the United States, and to call the attention of the officers thereof to the provisions of the law in regard to the deportation of those who have become public charges from causes existing prior to arrival in this country.

Certain admistrative provisions are embodied in sections 23, 24, 25, and 26, of which the Secretary of the Treasury has signified his approval in writing. Since such approval there has been incorporated in section 26 a provision which accords with the present practice of requiring appeals, when made from the findings of the boards of special inquiry to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be made through the commissioners at the ports, respectively, where such findings are made.

In section 31 the sale of intoxicating liquors at any immigrant station is forbidden.

To the authority given in section 34 to the Commissioner-General of Immigration to enter into contracts with foreign transportation lines in regard to the inspection and entry of aliens along our land boundaries is attached the condition that such lines must agree to assume all the obligations of the law not inapplicable to their immigration business.

Section 35 defines the term United States to mean, as regards the provisions of this measure, not alone the States and Territories constituting the Federal Union, but as well all other territory subject to the jurisdiction of said Union.

Section 36 provides that the deportation of aliens found unlawfully in the United States shall be to the transoceanic countries from which they came, thereby avoiding the ineffective transfer of such persons, in case of their having obtained access to this country from foreign contiguous territory, to points whence they can readily return.

Section 37 repeals antecedent legislation inconsistent with the provisions of the measure, saving the laws in relation to Chinese exclusion; and section 38 names October 1, 1902, as the time at which the proposed law is to go into operation.

REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION.

HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN RELATION TO CERTAIN

BILLS REFERRED TO THAT COMMITTEE.

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REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION.

HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN RELATION TO CERTAIN BILLS REFERRED TO THAT COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15, 1902.

The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m.

Present: Senators Penrose (chairman), Fairbanks, Dillingham, Rawlins, Turner, and McLaurin of Mississippi.

STATEMENT OF PRESCOTT F. HALL.

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Hall, where do you live?
Mr. HALL. Boston, Mass.

The CHAIRMAN. Are you connected with any association interested in the general subject of immigration?

Mr. HALL. I am secretary of the Immigration Restriction League. The CHAIRMAN. On what bill do you desire to be heard? Or do you wish to be heard on the general proposition?

Mr. HALL. There are now, I believe, pending in Congress three bills containing an educational test provision. One is the bill (S. 662) to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States, its Territories, possessions, and the District of Columbia, introduced in the Senate by Mr. Penrose. Then there is the bill (S. 222) to amend the immigration laws of the United States, which was introduced by Mr. Lodge at the request of the league; and then there is the bill (S. 1891) to provide an educational test for immigrants, and for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists.

The CHAIRMAN. You may proceed with your statement.

Mr. HALL. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, the Immigration Restriction League is an organization composed of members from all parts of the United States, which was founded in the year 1894, and whose representatives have appeared before various committees in previous sessions of Congress to advocate restriction of immigration, chiefly along the lines of an educational test.

As the committee is doubtless aware, this proposed addition to the immigration law is not new. In the Fifty-fourth Congress it was passed by very large majorities in the Senate and in the House. A conference report also passed by a very large majority in the House and Senate. The bill was then vetoed by Mr. Cleveland, and was passed over his veto in the House by a vote of 193 to 37, but failed of passage in the Senate.

In the Fifty-fifth Congress a similar bill passed the Senate by a vote of 45 to 28, and was refused consideration in the House.

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