OCR Text |
Show MEASURES IX THE HOUSE. Penalty for Landing Allen Fanners i Vaults to Store Silver. Washington, March 2G.-The Speaker laid before the House a communication from Assistant Secretary 0f the Treasury Fair-child, Fair-child, transmitting a draft of the bill to amend the laws re&ulating immigration. Referred. The bill exempts from the per l"?tiaxof-?)centstransieilt aen tourists tour-ists and provides a penalty of $500 for the permanent landing of alien paSpers, idiots! ?hXple co?ts. ThrSeoretarf r; 1 J801 IMen power to appoint Commissioners of Immigration, not to exceed ex-ceed three m number, at Boston, New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, Key Vest, New Orleans, Galveston and San Francisco, who shall take exclusive charge, and provide for the support and relief of such alieT imrni-grants imrni-grants as may f all into distress. In com-KlnJon com-KlnJon charee th0 Assistant iSf !-Bay?; agents through whom the existing law is accomplished, namely, P8. of Immigration, are appointed by the State governments, and the Department Depart-ment has no control of those agents except by contracts, which it has no means of enforcing. en-forcing. The bill transmitted puts the entire en-tire charge of destitute alien immigrants in the care of Immigration Commisioners appointed ap-pointed as officers of the United States, if the Government takes care of aKati im migrants in distress it should not divide that supervision with the State authorities. Also a letter from Assistant Secretary Jjairchild. asking for an appropriation for the storage and transportation of silver d61-lars. d61-lars. Referred. The letter says in view of the fact that the amount of standard silver dollars required to be coined under the existing law is about $27,000,000 each year and that the remaining remain-ing space available in the vaults of the Sub-Treasury Sub-Treasury offices, other than at New Orleans, is not sufficient for the storage of the coinage for the ensuing twelve months, it is deemed advisable and prudent to ask that a suitable appropriation be made to enable the department de-partment to erect vaults in some other Sub- , Treasury offices, leaving the vault at New Orleans free for the storage of the accumulation ac-cumulation of coinage executed at the mint in that city. The House then took a recess. |