Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-06 | Page 4 | Millions Coming from Europe

I; MILLIONS COMING I j FROM EUROPE. While a great flood of Immigrants continues to pour Into this country, the senate of tho United States full to act on the Johnson bill which would close the door to a big part of the In rushing alien stream. Commissioner Wallls of the Ellis Island Is-land Immigration station stated before a congressional committee that Eur ope Is literally moving to tho United States and the only barrier to a greater great-er Influx of foreigners than Is now being be-ing received Is the Inability of the trans Atlantic steamers to carry more than 1.300000 passengers to our I J shores In a year. Commissioner Wallls declared that 10 per cent of the arrivals would be poinded by being denied passports, if an examination was required at the ujjjjjjjjjjjj ports of embarkation. He stated that H eastern Europe was afflicted with ty H phoid. typhus, dysentery and tubercu- H losis. and yet the diseased and un ' cleansed were being allowed to come to H Mr. Willi, said one of the greatest fl troubles at Ellis Island is getting rid B of the vermin brought over by the H; ! thousands of foreigners who dally nr.- 1 arriving. It Is Strang- that the senate seem lngly has no thought of putting an end to this dumping process which is throwing upon Ihe communities of, America a mass of humanity so unde- j slrable at a time when millions are OOl of employment.