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Show COUNTRIES I PROTESTING I New Immigration Bill I Being Vigorously Op- 1 posed By Nations Washington. Feb. 6 When Presi- E dent Taft gave a hearing today on the R new Immigration hill, he also had be w fore him protests from Germany, Italy b and the Netherlands against the pro- g vision which authorizes the secretary of commerce nnd labor to place in- K spec tors, matrons and public health t" service surgeons aboard immigrant r ships to report to American immlgra IF tion authorities on tho condition and fc treatment of Immigrants en route. Another protest from Austria Is v said to be on the way and intimations jt have been received that France and jti England will Join the protest All the ji. protesting nations are said to regard f the provision as an infringement of 1 their sovereignty over their ships on Y. the high seas and Impugning the faith L of their officials In the execution of f the Immigration laws. ! Manv prominent Jews arrived ber today to protest to the president i against certain features of the bill. I Taft Hearing Protests, jt President Taft heard the protesls in the east room of the White House. f where he sat at a large table stacked with books and papers. He told those appearing that ho waB virtually sitting fc as a Judge Senators O'Gorman and Root. Secretary Nagel. Representatives Representa-tives Roberts. Thayer. Kahn. Sabbath nnd Curley, and Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and Louis Marshall of New York were among a hundred or more of those seated about the president w'ho began the hearing with an an-1 an-1 nouncement j "Tho burden is upon those who op j, pose this bill," said the president. "Jr requires a very strong showing to in duce the executive to override the coition co-ition of both houses of congress." |