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Show HARDSHIP ON JEWS. Physique Pvequiiement Said to Work Discrimination. WASHINGTON, April 1. it is asserted by attorneys for the Jewish Societies who have ippi ,r .1 before the Immigration bureau that the present practice In excluding ex-cluding persona becavtwa of "ooor phy-Iquau' phy-Iquau' W'Tks a discrimination agalnal the Ji W. II WVisager, In an appeal on a r-etnt .-xdusion .inc. explains that orthodox ortho-dox j-ws cannot conaclentioualy ei the food provided by the steamship companies, com-panies, but Instead have to subsist on bread of their own, and herring. This diet for two weeks with the dlseomforts or tiiiv.l. niak.-s ih.-m look in po..r condition. K (bay lire hurriedly examined by the officers of-ficers of the port. Assistant Secretary Murray of the Department De-partment ( Commerce and Labor holds that Wben Immigrant are coming here at the rate of a million a .j ear the country cm arT..o! to mak" plisnnl condition an Important consideration The experience Of David M irlk. a Russian Jew offered ii teal case He had lived fmir rears in Baltimore, but without taking any steps t.. I,.-, urn- an American cltlseh, when he returned t his old home In Russia on a visit, staying there for several years. On his return fit the port of Kaltlmorc he vv.im rejii'ted tieciiuse of poor physique, and the possession Of only 86 cents In . ili Three of his sisters living In that city in thriftv circumstances, promised to Hint he vv.mlil not beciime a public charge, and the president of the Hebrew Immigration society offered to give bond guaranteeing that Murlk would not tie- om a nan per. but the a ut In u llles would not yield |