Speech #670121334

These have been admitted. since July 1 to the total number of only 843. I think it is necessary to make these statements because every time the Associated Pressor one of these great dailies prints a report of that kind it goes all through the country and increases the disturbance by making people believe that individuals can come in in spite of the restrictive laws. While on tliiS general subject I wantto call attention of Members to the fact that since there has been such a hue and cry that our temporary restriction law divides families. and since it Itas been shown that every time one member of a family gets in lie immediately goes to work and helps raise the hue and cry and wants the other members of the family to comein. and that tite Bureau of Immigration. instead of weakening. has tightened up. and now will not split families at all ifit can be helped. One thing more that the public ought to know about. and that is that the congested ports in the European districtsoneyear ago are still just as congested as they were then. The congestion at Constantinople has increased. and the great cantonment at Paris erected on money contributed: by charitably inclined people for the refugees of Poland is still running full blast. Every effort is being mad6 in Paris to assist them on their way to the United States and to prevent their remaining in France. Money is sent from this country to assist them. It will come as a matter of some surprise to these good people who contributed the money to know that Shapiro. the agent over there of one of these great charitable societies. has been caught redhanded taking tribute from the steamship companies. These companies always collect. even in the case of poor refugees. all that the traffic will bear. When this scoundrel Shapiro was caught with the goods on him. taking money from charity with one hand and rebates from the steamship companies with the other. the prefecture of the Paris police called upon him to disgorge and made him lay on the table in one day two or three hundred thousand francs of that illgotten money. I mention this to show the fraud that is going on.