Show EMIGRATION AFFAIRS The Congressional Investi t gating Committee FIND S03IETHISG CRIMINAL J At Incorriclble be Fruit Auction f Hatidall The JJJnamlte Con 1 8i > Uat > > r R 8 v f I > I Criminal Investigation 1 NEW YORK Jtly 28When the Congressmen who are investigating W investigat-ing tbe emigration affairs of the country T coun-try assembled today Paul Wolff Washington correspondent of the New York Staats Zeitung took the witness stand and stated that same three yearn ago he was informed that there Were several societies in Germany and < especially in Bavaria formed for the purpose of sending discharged criminals crim-inals to this country Witness laid iiis information before Assistant Secretary Secre-tary of State Porter and that gentleman gentle-man wrote to the American consulate at Munich on the subject who replied in December 1885 that there were no such societies Witness then read extracts ex-tracts from the reports of one of these societies showing that in 1883 twenty seyea discharged convicts were sent to this country by the society The report re-port said that the worse the men are and thejarcer families they have the better they are to send to America Witness said the societies are not government affairs but the royal I counselor Bauer is president and Prince Regent j Luitpold is honorary president of one society In 1886 their report is more cautiously rded but it shows that oat of 15000 marks expended nearly hah was used to assist the emigrants to come to this country At this point Mayor Hewitt interrUpted inter-rUpted the proceedings to shake hands with the members the committee and urge upon them an invitation to spend Sunday with him at his country seat 7 Wnen he left the examination proceeded pro-ceeded Witness had no statistic for the year 1887 bat said that he knew of cases occurring oc-curring this year About two months ago he said two men came over on the Saale but were sent back from Castle Garden The American consul at Munich Mu-nich learned of their being sent and cabled over to the Castle Garden authorities au-thorities Witness believes thst they y < were sent back to Hamburg and from there to England from where they cam J over to this country again under assumed names He said that these societies so-cieties give each of these assisted emigrants emi-grants tickets to whatever plape in this country they select and give each 100 marks over and above that |