The House has passed much important legislation today. but no bill considered at this session is as far reaching in importance as the bill now under consideration. which extends the power of the Commissioner General of Immigration to the supervision of the transportation of aliens to their respective places of destination in the interior of the United States. and of their safe conduct upon arrival at such places. and authorizing the establishment of stations for the purpose of such supervision. The section of the bill authorizing the establishment and maintenance of such a station in Chicago. and authorizing the appropriation of $75.000 for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1914. and for such appropriations as may in future years be recommended in the estimates to Congress for the Immigration Service is a step In the right direction. Chicago is the distributing point for the Central West and the Northwest and Southwest. A large percentage of the immigrants arriving in this country come to and pass through Chicago. Up to the present time they have had no adequate protection. The supervision of immigrants between the ports of entry and their final destination has been In the hands of the railroad companies. Many abuses creep into the supervision now in vogue. It can not be otherwise under the existing system. Extortion is frequently practiced against the immigrant passing through a strange land. speaking a strang tongue. Women and young girls are often taken advantage of by unscrupulous people whose business it is to traffic in their virtue. Before they become avare of what has befallen them they have been led into lives of shame from which they are freed only by death.
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