Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1890 — IMMIGRATION LAW INQUIRY. [ARTICLE]

IMMIGRATION LAW INQUIRY.

The Congressional committee on immigration resumed its session at Chicago on the 28th. Potter palmer thought that immigrants should only be allowed to come from certain specified ports in each foreign country, at which ports they should be subjected to strict consular investigation. He was opposed to fixing any edu eational qualifications for admission to this country. Charles Jones, of Racine, Wis., considered Bohemians a desirable element to introduce into this country. Not more than 2 per cent, of them would be barred out by an educational qualifier tion. He favored the exclusion of Polish Jews. He considered a consular investigation into the antecedents of immigrants both practicable and desirable. Jobn Anderson favored consular inspection and an educational qualification. He thought there should be a change in the naturalization laws to prevent designing politicians from making capital of the ignorance of the recently landed immigrant. 8. E. Gordon explained the system of immigration adopted by the crown authorities in Canada and Australia. A certificate of health was required as welj as of character. ’ Tbe insane, deformed and diseased, were absolutely excluded. Their careful system of sifting resulted in all the criminal and objectionable classes finding their dumping ground in America. •- On the 17th inst. at Royal Center, Willard Harvey struck Samuel McCloskey on the head with a piece of timber, killing him. The widow has now brought suit against Harvey for SIO,OOO damages, claiming, that defendant has deprived her* self and children of means of support by killing the husband and father. Harvey was arrested on a charge of man slaughter, and has been released on SIO,OOO bond. H« is reported to be worth in real estate fully, the amount claimed by the widow, and the opinion prevails that she will be awarded a material sum.

While tbe Eugene Robinson floating circus was giving a show at Evansville, Charles Sheldon, colored, applied for a reserved seat, for which be was charged sl. He paid the money and took the seat, but he afterward filed the necessary papers and libelled the show for S3OO damages.