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Show ALIENS BILL IS UP 1 COMMONS United Slates Cited as Example. Beneficial Working of Exclusion Ex-clusion Law Pointed Out. Bfdfour Says Great Britain Is n Sieve Which Lets Through the Fit to America. LONDON, Mn 2 The House of Commons Com-mons reassembled today after the Easter recess. Tho debate on the aliens bill was commenced by Sir Charles Dllko (Advanced (Ad-vanced Radical), who opposed the mca-s-ire, COnten ling that it was unnecessary- diaries P. Trevelylan (Liberal) In seconding sec-onding Sir Charles Dllke's motion providing pro-viding for the rejection of the aliens bill referred to the. "universal sympathy v.th the oppressed, misgoverned Russian people who are fleeing from their country coun-try to escape conscription for the universally univer-sally detested war in Manchuria." These, he said, woul 1 be exclud.d from this country or find greater difficulty In reaching reach-ing America, If the bill was passed. William e. Evans-Gordan (Conservative) (Conserva-tive) dcf.nd.sl the bill Describes American Exclusion Act. Home Secretary Akers-Douglas said the bill onlv :dmil tc exclude undesirable aliens. H described the excellent deterrent deter-rent effect of the American exclusion law on this class of Immigrants, and disclaimed dis-claimed any antl-Bemltio tendency on the part of the British Government ' nc reason rea-son why ho desired to 'see the question settled was that he believed that If tlr-existing tlr-existing state of affairs continued there would be u chance for antl-Semltlc agitation agita-tion In Ignorant quarters. Chamberlain Supports It. Joseph Chamberlain supported the bill as being a measure tending to keep out cheap labor. He said the bill was merely a step toward greater things. The principal prin-cipal reason for its Introduction and support sup-port by the Ministerialists was because It was an effort to protect worklngm.n against the labor of foreigners. It would be but a small step b. -two n the bill for keeping out this class of labor and the bill whlli Mr Chamberlain said he hoped to see Introduced shortly to prevent the goods these people made from coming Into competition with those made In Great Britain There was no logic in saying these people peo-ple might remain nt home and produce goods which Great Britain admitted free of duty. Bill Is Moderate. Premier Balfour pointed out the moderation moder-ation of the bill, which he maintained, did not Interfere with Hie right of asylum, asy-lum, as It was understood by the forefathers fore-fathers and expressly provided that pov-ertv pov-ertv alono should not exclude aliens He said the question of alien Immigration was wholly distinct from the Jewish question as It appeared on the Continent Conti-nent He agreed that the I'nlted Stales hnd shown a remarkable power of absorbing men of different nationalities and turning turn-ing them all, by press of national alchemy. al-chemy. Into American citizens; but the absorbing ab-sorbing power had limits. Might Become National Evil. There w-ere two modern conditions calling call-ing for modern remedies: First facility of transport and, second, the fact that foreign countries, and notably the I'nlted States, realize that unrestricted Immigration Immigra-tion might become a national evil. II must be observed, the Premier continued, con-tinued, how foreign legislation, and especially espe-cially thnt of the United States, has reacted re-acted upon Great Britain Many aliens en route to the United States, who wero not provided with through tickets, have remained here, and manv of those who r. a. bed the United Stales unfit have returned re-turned to this country. Sieve for United States. Great Britain had become a sort of sieve which let IhruUKh the lit to America, but retulned the unlit. Unless something Is done. Great Britain must remain a sieve In which useless dregs are left. Sir Chnrhs Dllke's amendment was re-Jected, re-Jected, 211 to 26, and the bill was seconded sec-onded without division. |
