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Show 10 INCREASE TH 01 ALIEN IMMIGRANTS Senator Dillingham's Bill Provides Pro-vides for Radical Changes in Law. WASHINGTON, March 30. Senator Dillingham Dilling-ham today submitted the report of the Committee Com-mittee on Immigration on hla bill amending the lmmlfrmtlon luvvs. The chanues mude In the present law are numerous. Tho head tax on Incoming aliens Is Increased from 2 lo 35 nnd steamships nro subject to lines of $100 for bringing to tho United States any persons prevented from entering by rcoeon of afflictions or mind or liody Tbo present law provider for such fines only In tho cases of aliens af-lllctud af-lllctud with loathsome or contagious diseases. Who Arc Aliens. Tho bill ntldii to tho claws of aliens now excluded by law all Imbeciles, feeble-minded persons who are mentally or physically defective, defec-tive, such defect being of a naturo which may affrct the Immigrant's ability to mm a UvlnK. children under 17 yars, unless accompanied by parents, and ntrenRthens the provisions e- eluding poiypilsts, crlailnaJs and prostitutes'. The head tax Is Imposed on aliens' entrance except In cortaln cass and Is abolished In th case of a foreign ofllclal coming lo tho United States overland. The bill further provides thnc IH such companies be required to furnish lists ot; IH all outgoing aliens before departuro for the- IH United States. IH For Better Information. IH To aid In promoting tho distribution ot ad-, mltted aliens among thc Stntrs and Terr!- lories desiring sittlers. thc bill establishes a' IH division or Information In thc bureau of lm- , IB migration. Information concerning States and., IH Territories will bo collected and distributed. IH nmong admitted aliens, and States and Terrt-.. tcrlcs may maintain representatives at thv, various ImmlKTant stations for the purposo uf, Inducing aliens to settle there. |