A. Proposed amendments to Public Act No. 96, approved February 20, 1907; submitted to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor by the Acting Commissioner of Immigration, 1909. B. Bill introduced by Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, August 7, 1911, to amend Public Act No. 96, approved February 20, 1907. C. STATISTICAL. (a) Political condition of foreign-born male employees. (b) Ability to speak English. (c) Literacy of workers. (d) Visits abroad made by foreign-born employees. (e) Occupations abroad of foreign-born male (f) Congestion in industrial localities. (h) Location of wives of foreign-born husbands. earners. (k) Weekly earnings of workers according to sex, age, race, and industry. (1) Weekly earnings of industrial workers by race and age. (m) Family income of industrial workers. (n) Sources of family income of industrial workers. (0) A summary of immigration, 1901-1909. (p) Distribution of the foreign-born popula tion. (q) Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born industrial workers. (r) Affiliation with trade unions of foreignborn workmen. (s) Total population and number of foreignborn persons in United States, by coun try of birth. (t) History of Immigration. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO PUBLIC ACT No. 96. APPROVED FEBRUARY 20, 1907. (Alterations in, or additions to, the existing law are shown in italics.) [Existing law in roman; amendments shown in italics and words stricken out.] AN ACT To amend an Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following amendments and additions are hereby made to the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States." Section two of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practise of polygamy; anarchists, or persons |