Speech #630433827

I will insert them in the RECORD: . 2. Sufficient appropriation should be regularly made to enforce vigorously the provisions of the laws previously recommended by the commission and enacted by Congress regarding the importation of women for Immoral purposes. 3. As the new statute relative to stcerag6 conditions took effect so recently as January 1. 1009. and as the most modern steerage fully complies with all that is demanded under the law. the commissions only recommendation in this connection is that a statute be immediately enacted providing for the placing of Government officials. both men and women. on vessels carrying thirdclass or steerage passengers for the enforcement o the law and the protection of the Immigrant. The system inaugurated by thecommission of sending Investigators in the steerage in the guise of immigrants should be continued at intervals by the Bureau of immigration. 4. To strengthen the certainty of just and humane decisions of doubtful cases at ports of entry it is recommendedThat section 25 of the immigration .act of 1907 be amended to provide that boards of special inquiry should be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. and that they should be composed of men whose ability and training qualify them for the performance of judicial functions. that the provisions compelling their hearings to be separate and apart from the public should be repealed. and that the office of an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor to assist in reviewing such appeals be created.. 5. To protect the Immigrant against exploitation . to discourage sending savings abroad . to encourage permanent- residence and naturalization. and to secure better distribution of alien immigrants throughout the country(a) The States should enact laws strictly regulating immigrant banks. (b) Proper State legislation should be enacted for the. regulation of employment agencies.. (c) Since numerous aliens make it their business to keep immigrants from influences that may tend toward their assimilation and naturalization as American citizens. with the puipose ofusing their funds. of encouraging investment of their savings abroad. and their return to their home land. aliens who attempt to persuade immigrants not to become Amerilan citizens should be made subject to deportation. (d) Since the distribution of the thrifty Immigrant to sections*of the country where he may secure a permanent residence to the best advantage. and especially where he may Invest his savings in farms or. engage in agricultural pursuits. is most desirable. the division of information should be so conducted as to cooperate with States desiring immigrant settlers. and information concerning the opportunities for settlement should be brought to the attention of immigrants in industrial centers who have been here for sometime and who might be thus Induced to invest their savings in this country and become permanent agricultural settlers. The division might also secure and furnish to all laborers alike information showing opportunities for permanent employment In various sections of the country. together with the economic conditions in such places. 6. One of the provisions of section 2 of the act of 1907 reads as follows : "And provided further.