Show sinator SENATOR CHANDLER ON immigration CHANDLER of new hampshire is chairman of the senate corn com cittee on immigration he is alive to the fact that public opinion is being actively directed towards the immigration question on this account he is himself giving the matter close observation and serious thought he admits that the sentiment in favor of greater restriction grows stronger but if new laws are to be instituted for regulating immigration he thinks that congress should seek the aid of I 1 thought tul ful men competent to speak on this issue in order to facilitate the obtaining of wise counsel on this question senator chandler has formulated a series of twelve queries to be submitted to men eminent in various walks of life for answers the pith of the questions is as follo follows w 9 shall the list of excluded persons be enlarged shall anarchists and socialists be excluded shall persons be excluded who cannot read and write their own tongue shall each ach immigrant or each family be required to bring a certain amount of money or property shall immigrants from particular countries con be excluded shall the head bead tax be increased from 50 cents to 10 shall a consular certificate from the country of departure be required shall the latter require ment be extended to mexico and canada shall certain restrictions be placed on naturalization and shall it be confined to the united states courts and taken from the state courts Is any amendment to the contract labor law desired and if fo eo what from the tenor of these questions it will that the migration issue is assuming a comprehensive scope and that when it comes before congress it will be discussed in all its phases it Is more than probable that the whole matter of alie nisin will finally come under the federal government the abandonment of castle garden in new york and the transfer of the immigrant service there from the state board to the secretary of the treasury shows that the federal government is not opposed to such a scheme it also shows that the states are not opposed to it because the new york state board at the time of the transfer last winter entered neither objection nor protest the legislation already enacted with a view to restricting undesirable immigration is said to be very imperfect it was on the principle that only the bad should be excluded while the good should have free entrance senator chandler personally believes this principle should prevail in the future I 1 though he be thinks that the demand for absolute exclusion of all aliens will soon come he Is also desirous that the republican party should at once make a political issue of this immigration question in reply toa to a reporter who asked what the attitude of the republican party was on the question from the workingman point of view the senator said naturally I 1 think that the republican party has shown that it is the truest possible friend of the workingman in the tariff contract labor and immigration laws I 1 have noticed that some free traders attack the republican party because while it keeps out through its high tariff foreign manufactures it lets in foreign workmen who work for low wages and who come here to cheapen the price of labor the complaint does not come with good grace from men who are in favor of letting in free inferior foreign products and thereby reducing the wages of american labor to the low foreign standard the policy of the republican party does keep out infer inferior 1 i or foreign products the party will if it continues in power and time develops the necessity of more rigid laws limiting or excluding foreign workmen proceed to the enactment of such euch laws possibly that time is near at hand |