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Show "poor immigrants , 1 Sargtom General mlltea.'s Plat forPrcTcolhsf TlielrOsBi V to laurica. a. " """"" J THC CITIZCN8 BANK STILI: BCSIEGCD. ' I V (Joald on the Falare Boslsma Pollry or the Railroads. Rail-roads. Or TiexrDb SMwa. THE I lSflOBATIOX. Fraposea Measures far lis Me fttrltllon. Washusotox.Xov. 21. Surgeon-General Surgeon-General Hamilton has made his report to the Secretary of tho Treasury, giving tho results or the visits by him to the principal foreign for-eign puints or embarkation or Immigrants for the United States. He visited Naples, Loudon, l'tm pool, Glasgow, Brehmen, Trieste and Hamtunr. He found no thorough medical examination of the immigrants anywhere. Dr. Hamilton says there is no country so free as the United States iu admitting immigrants and lie urges restrictive legislation, pointing out that .nearly two million seven hundred thousand imoilgranta have come hero within six years, largely made up or undesirable clas es. He recommends that a law be passed requiring intended immigrants to furnish the United States consul a certificate that he Is not a criminal or a pauper, nor suffering ircm any epidemic or contagious "'sease or dlsabllltj, whereby ho is likely Jo be male a public charge. |