People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION. [ARTICLE]

TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.

Mr. Curtis, of Kansas, Introduces a FarReaching Bill In the House. Washington, Sept 3S.—Mr. Curtis, of Kansas, has presented a bill in the house to further regulate immigration, which, if it becomes a law, will be farreaching in effect and tend to materially restrict immigration to theUnitedStates. The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for the commanding officer of any vessel to receive any alien passenger bound for the United States if an examination discloses the fact that such person is unable to read or write; that his passage has been paid by any other person or corporation; who does not possess, if a single man, the sum of S3OO, if a single woman SIOO, if head of family SSOO, or who Is not mentally and physically sound; who has ever been in prison for any infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; who has been in an almshouse or supported by charity within two years; who is a polygamist, anarchist or under contract, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States.