Show THE DETAINED IMMIGRANT THE exposure by the world of the arbitrary and illegal conduct of the emigration commission in new york and especially of 0 commissioner stephenson Step benson particulars of which we nave given to our readers has enlisted m much lucli sympathy for the unfortunate immigrant ingjerd johnson ind and thwarted the unlawful project of the commissioners the following dispatch was sent from washington and bad the effect of a bombshell in their camp C F ulrich president of the emigration commission new york appeal in case ol of Ingi ingjerd erd Jphn jphnson sou and child has been maue made to secretary of treasury and it appears to be undisputed that friends in this country paid tier lier passage and furnished her with railroad railroad tickets to minnesota and 10 lo 15 in mone yand have sufficient sureties that immigrants shall not become a public charge lu ic is understood that she is strong in good health and able by her own labor to support herself and child it is also alleged that she came with her sister who was allowed to land and take all her personal effects and proceed to minnesota if these facts are not con coa trover ted it would appear that the detained immigrants are not within the prohibited class and should be allowed to proceed ato to their place of destination C 8 sec but bat it appears that in spite of this the board determined to send the woman back to her native land and she would no doubt have been compelled to go on beara boara board the had it not been for benjamin F blair attorney for the Ame american emigrant company at whose instance the from secretary fairchild was ob bained finding Fin dine that tickets had been secured for the woman and her child to sail on that vessel he sued gued out a writ of habeas corpus before judge lawrence of the supreme court that put a block in the way of the commissioners that they could not jump jamp over so ingjerd jonson remained and her wants were properly supplied the commissioners have stirred up a hornets n nest eat about their ears and one of them said to a world reporter I 1 vit it is more by good luck than anything else that we have not got into scrapes of this kind before mr stephenson has aiwas led us to believe that he knew all about law and his legal knowledge has led us into this scrape now by the resolution of president ulrich which he be has had bad to light fight for months to get through we are to te have goun S el at every meeting and all ail matters on which there is any question will be referred to him we are through with stephenson as an attorney and I 1 for one am glad of it it is broadly intimated that the chief reason for the detention of this woman was the fact that her railroad ticket was for a road not in the pool fostered by the commissioners other cases have had this complexion pl exion and this may account for the animus of stephenson agal ifft mormon immigrants whose transportation por tation from new york is id not under control of the pool it is evident that a great deal of nonsense as well as cruelty and I 1 injustice U 15 attends the action of the VO con 1 missioners ners and the storm that their conduct in ia the case of the norwegian immigrant has raised Is likely to sweep away some at least of the abuses that have hava grown up under their the world is entitled to great praise for its exposi exposure ire ot of those abuses abases and the championship of the cause of ing Ingjerd erd jonson |