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Show MAN:iKSANE';AMSv. ADMITTED TO AMMCA CLEVELAND. April 24. To get at more aliens who are mentally unfit to be eitl-aens eitl-aens of this country Immigrant Inspector Jeremiah Brown will call upon Probate Judge Hadden this week and ask him to inquire of all Insanity prisoners, or rather of their friends, if the prisoners hare been confined In any Insane asylums In their native countries. If It Is learned that such has been the case, then the Ira-migration Ira-migration bureau will promptly deport them to their own shores. . Even though the watch kept upon the immigration gateways of the United 8tstes is very strict the immigration officials acknowledge that a great many ur.flt persons get by them and become lost In the forty-live States. Inspector Brown of this city said yesterday that more than 75 per ceat of the present inmates of Insane asylums are of foreign birth, and that undoubtedly a very large number of them would have been barred from the- country had the Immigration officials been able to apprehend the alien's true condition. ."But those people are geneally not so Insane; but that they know they are coming t6 America, where they understand under-stand living Is free? said Brown. "They are very - shrewd, and exercise every faculty at their commands to get by the' officials. So long as they are healthy, show a good record, can write and seem to have visible means of support, the aliens cannot be barred out Generally, however, after a few months, sometimes a year or more, they turn up In some insane asylum In some part of the country. coun-try. , , "The officers of these asylums are supposed to and do Inform the bureau of Immigration of these cases as soon as they are found out, and then If it can "be shown at all that the alien's condition Is due to his life In the old country, prior to his landing here, he can be deported de-ported at the expense of the steamship company which carried him here. But I am convinoed that in a majority of the cases the asylum officials have been, un-" able to get at the facts. "If the Probate Judges, when they examine ex-amine applicants for the asylums, will inquire closely aa to the applicant's past, from the applicant, if possible, and If not, from his friends, I believe that a great many of these cases that we are now finding out will be located. The Judge can do it better than, the asylum doctors or Immigrant Inspectors, for the friends of the applicant permit their minds to become a blank when they see our uniforms. r "After an. alien gets by the gateway the only means we have ot finding him out Is In the event of his getting into an asylum, Infirmary or some penal institution. in-stitution. On the average, two foreigners for-eigners a month are deported from Cleveland." |