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SENATOR LATIMER ON IMMIGRATION.; I WRITES HIS YIEWS FROM MID OCEAN ON HIS WAY TO EUROPE TO STUDY : QUESTION. Mij? Ocean, May 25:?Perhaps: a tew words concerning me immigration commission and its trip abroad will be of interest to the readers of your paper. As most of them already know this commission I was created at the last session of Confess, and its creation grew out. of the discussion of the immigration i question, which was given a great ! ? deal of attention during the session.! This was emphasized b.v the number of amendments that were mtro- j duced. of conflicting kinds. Some | j wanted our present immigration: laws made more lax, while others j wanted them made more stringent* Congress was slow in agreeing to any particular measure, and there was much uncertainty as to what / should be done for the best interests j of the country. Finally it was decided to appoint a commission to in- j vtstigate the whole matter in all its t ] bases and to report its findings to. Congress. The commission consists cf three Senators, three Representatives and three laymen appointed by the President. The Senators are Messrs Dilliugham, Lodge and momKonc fliu nnm I lii fvV.ll) UIV.111 VV. i C Vi V UV CV & J 11IV Win- I mittee on immigration. The Rep-1 resentatives are Messrs Howell, Bennett and Burnett, members of the House committee on immigration. The President's appointees are Messrs Charles P Neill. J W Jenks and W R Wheeler. Senator Lodge and Messrs Xeill and Jenks were unable to take the European trip for different reasons and they will be studying immigration questions in the United States this summer while we are abrcud. Each member of the commission taking the trip has his wife along. Among others along with the party are Miss Wheeler, a niece of Commissioner Wheeler; Mr Burnett, a son of Congressman Burnett; MissOlire Lati, mer and Mr A M Carpenter, editor of the Anderson Daily Mail. The commission sailed from Boston on Saturday, May 13, on the steamer Canopic, of the White Star Line, and yesterday we passed the Azores, stopping for a few hours -at Ponta Delgada, on the Island of St Michael. We are due Monday at Gibraltar and the steamer then goes on to Naples, where the party will land. The weather has been lideal so far and the trip has been delightful. There has been little if any seasickness. The commission has already started its work. There are about 400 steerage passengers on board, which class embraces the immigrants, who .are returning to their native homes. We have gone among them and made investigations as to their reasons for returning. About 33 per cent ate returning on account of sickness, many are going home to visit their relatives, and j others are going to bring relatives back with them. The general condition of the steerage passengers is good: they have fair accommodations and the legal requirements of our Government with regard to space on board the ship and sanitary conditions are complied with. A close inquiry among the passer. gers, reports of special ageiiis and our own commissioners emphasizes the fact that in order to obtain permanent benefit from immigration it is necessary to treat the first immigrants in a community well and to surround theui with proper economic conditions. In other words, the wages paid, whether in money or cheaper rents or lower priced food and clothing, must equal or nearly \ equal, what can be obtained in any other section of our country. If these conditions are met the first immigrants will be pleused, and will write back to their friends that conditions ai? satisfactory and their I friends will follow them. On the I other hand, if these conditions are; ~ not met, the first immigrants will 50 somewhere else and will net writei thtir friends to come until they have ! I found a place where conditions are j satisfactory. Of course, it must be borne in | mind that conditions geneially in our country are much better than they are abroad. Conditions in dif- j ferent parts of our own country,1 however, vary, and these variations are not always understood by our own people, and they aie liable to be misunderstood by the immigrants. For instance, an immigrant arriving in one section of the United States may hear of some other section where, he is told, the conditions are much better. It is quite natural that he should not understand the j advantages of the other section, and should become dissatisfied and want, to go elsewhere 1 learn through oue of my broth- 1 er commissioners that the planters of j Hawaii early this year sent an agent j to tiie Azores, which are peopled bv ; Portuguese, aud succeeded in seci/r- j ing a ship-load under contract to ( engage in sugar planting in the Hawaiianjt Islands. Shortly alter arriving at that destination a general exodus to California ensued, owing to the report of better wages prevailing in that State. This instance seems closely analogous to j that which we have recently experienced in our own State, and goes to prove that the immigrant, no ^ matter how much he may be bettering his original condition by immigration, will not hesitate to better himself after arrival at his first destination on learning that better wag es or conditions prevail eisewnere. As uu evidence ot the interest of the immigrants in our country, I quote the following from a recent' official report: "Distribution through labor! agents is the most satisfactory nieth-1 od for the unkilled worker. The; most effectire is through the United , States domestic and international j mail service. "Through this channel reliable! information as to employment,1 wages and location is giveu by the! relatives or friends in the United i States to the intending immigrant! before he leaves his native land. The relative or friend iu the mine, factory or work of construction knows if there is a shortage of labor or room here for his relative or j friend in -Europe. The magnitude of the international mail and mail order system of the Uuited States, together with the fact that the; great mass of immigrants go uner-^ ringly to the States where wages are highest and their services in great- j est demautl, indicates the effective-! ness of the system and the accuracy ! of the information." This will give some idea as to the conclusions that I have reached as far as our inyestigations have gone and I find that the view is shared j I by the other members of the com- * mission. If we are to get the bene-j tits of immigration we must makei the first ones who come oyer satis- j. fied with the conditions thev Hnd. ' If we do this they will write horn*' to their friends and relatives, who/] will follow. j 1 I will mail this letter at Gibraltar, where our ship will call, and will try to write occasionally while, I on the trip. 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