Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-05-03 | Page 2 | Aliens Bill Discussed

M.I5RSBILL 'DISCUSSED : - ncc of Commons Talks V Hcf Benefits of Exclusion . - Law. : . ' . ' : . - x : .-. i -' ... .'. ' ..,' LONDON. May A The House of .Com-" .Com-" njens reassembled Tuesday after the Easter recess The debate an the aliens bill was commenced by Sir Charles Dilke-(Advanced Radical).: who opposed the mea-y mea-y ' -st.re. contending that it was unnecessary. Charles P. Trevelyian (Liberal), in sec-oriag sec-oriag Sir Charles Dnke's motion providing pro-viding "for the rejection of the aliens Wll. referred th "universal sympathy aith the oppressed, misgoverned Russian, people who are fleeing from then country coun-try to escape conscription for the unler-sialy unler-sialy detested war in Manchuria." Theae. . ' l.e ald. wouM be excluded from this country or ml greater i5t Acuity in i reaching reach-ing Anwrlca. If the bill was paasod. - William . 12. Evans-Gordan tOtmserva-tivej tOtmserva-tivej defendod the WU. - ' Home Secretary Akers-Douglas said the bill oxily alnvsl to exclude undesirable aliens. He described the excellent deterrent deter-rent effect of the Aaserlcan exclusion law on this class f immigrants, and 6m-claimed 6m-claimed any autl-Semltio tmdeocyoa the nart of the Britteh Government. One reason rea-son why he desired to see the question settled was that he believed that If the existing state of affair continued there would be a chance for anti-Semitic agitation agita-tion rn ignorant quarters. -: . ' Joseph, Chamberlain supported the" 1M as being measure (ending to keep out cheap labor. He aaid the bill was merely , a step toward greater things. The principal prin-cipal reason for its Introduction and up-port up-port bv the Ministerialists was because it wss ". effort t protect workmgmen agarnst the labor of foreigners. It would be bat a email step between the bill for keeplag out this class of labor and the - bill whifi 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.