Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL [ARTICLE]

SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL

Sterling’s Measure Would Permit Certain Number of Aliens to Enter. Washington, Dec. 11. — Senator Sterling of South Dakota, a Republican member of the senate immigration committee, Friday offered his bill proposing to limit immigration during any one year, to 10 per cent of the number of those aliens of any ethnic group now living in the United States, 'the measure also would create a board of control of immigraft tion. The immigration board would be composed of five members, tfcie secretary of labor and four others, to be named by the president, with the consent of jthe senate. It would be empowered to enter into negotiations with foreign governments through the secretary of state for the right to maintain immigration Inspectors at consular offices and ports abroad, from which immigrants come. The board also would make a survey of the whole situation to determine whether any foreign governments are offering inducements for the people to emigrate to the United States. With a view of obtaining “beneficial distribution” of tlie emigrants, the state would have a- right to maintain agents at immigration ports and

lay the situation in their respective sections before them. Information as to the number of emigrants to be admitted each year would bo sent abroad and published there.