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Show DIMlf.ltATIIlV lll.MltlfII(). AaxocrAiMi ress desjiatrhes from Washington conUlu a synopsis of ths Investigations made hy the Immigration Immigra-tion Commission which visited Ku-rnpe Ku-rnpe last year. The report of this c.iin-mission c.iin-mission has been submitted to tho Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury. Ju iglng from the accounts published It Is a comprehensive compre-hensive and exhaustive document. Hpeclal emphasis has been Illd on tho condition of Hussla In Its lelallou to this country from tho Imnilgmtluii standwlnt. It Is assumed that If the prisent attitude of the Czar'a govern muni be iwrslsteil In towards tho unorthodox, unor-thodox, 7,03O,UJU Ilusslan sutijrcls will Ultimately Ins cotnpelletl to leave that country. In Italy It was ascertained that steamship companies hnd Leeu stimulating travel. In ths Hrltlsli Islands It was found that criminals aud excouvlets had beeiidepoitcd to this country with the approval and aulstau ce of the i.ngllsh (Jciverninent. This report will, It Is thought, form the basis of action uu thu part of ths Untied Htatee Treasury towards Imrul. grsuta In the future. That depnllmi ut has now complete control of the. entry of liumlgraujs to this country. Hy thu irovlslousof ths act of Msrcll 3,1)01, Hlato lionrds of Immigration wiru abolished. A comiiilssloner of litiml-gratlun litiml-gratlun apj-ulnteil liy the Hecretary uf thuTrrasury Is now statloued at each prliilal pott of entry, asslslwl by a stall of Insfectors. rtirtheriuore this depntlmeiit ha tho right to say who shall, orshall not under ths law outer lhoUultedHta.es. It decision Is Dual, and canuot I reviewed by an court In the land. It Is only aboutthree weeks sluoe tho Hupreme Court of the United Blalea rendered a decision which completely Ul.pois of ths question us to tho authority of tho Treasury. A Japanese woman was j rolilbtted from Uudlng InHan rranclscuby tho Commissioner on the grounds that she was likely to bee-ome a publlo charge, and that she was coming for Immoral iur poes. Thu frletnls of His woman took mensunstoliavu tho ciso reviewed In the Kcrirral courts. The government cfllclsli held that their uetlon was not suljcctto review; and In thlscoiitcu Hon the Huroiuo Court sustained them. Tho court further staled that the Uutteil htates as a sovereign nation uu luiio such limitations as It choos. on Immigration. Ths wwer to do this la vested In thu nation el government, govern-ment, and Congress Is tho sole arbiter In the nutler. That body by 'Us legltUtlon of Murch, lS'JI, comullled bi thu Treasury department absolute power to determine thu right of Immigrant entry to this country , Thu commissioner of Immigration j nud his stall of Inspectors are iispou I slble to no uuthorlty except the Kecre-j tary of the Treasury. Of cour.e, In case of n conti-sted Immigrant a writ of i habeas cirpu can be sued out, but ths court has no Jurisdiction of thu matter bvoud usiertaluliig whether the exclusion ex-clusion was enforced by duly apgtolnl ed uMclals acting within the provisions of the Immigration law, ItlsUllmc.l that Ihedcpattuicut will act In a Ura conic nmuiier during the ensuing liar, now that Its uwer Is pronounced absolute. |