Criminals And Paupers

PAtTPBBS SEXT nEKE. PiTTSBOitGn, Pa., Dec. 22.- The Congress onal Itnmigr.ition InvestigationConimittce has begun ts scs-sion here. Tne cummittee wis representad by Congressman M. H. Ford, of Michigan, chairman of tiie committeo, and Congessuian Richard Guentlier, of Wisc nsm. Dunng ti. e mening 1 obert C. Illiott, Chioï of the Bureau of Charit es, Judge Willium Kamsey, former chairman of the Poor ÍS ard, and George H ffmun, examiuer of tne De artment of Caarity, were examined. Chief Elliott saiJ that insano people an'l a decrepit and ignorant class of eople upplied for relief to a great extent, who shi uld never have been admtteil into the country. He recited twenty-live cases, some of them crimina s, oí peo, le who liad como hero from foreign countries against the provisions of the law. One i ase was that of an Esglishman who hail ftilU d a British (fflcer; another was that of an Engü-h woman w o had been brought he e by her letrayerand abandonel. hhe was taken to the po'T farm on October 25, 1SS7. went iusane and still rema.ns there. Bhe has cost the city thus far Í1, 590, and as she is a strong woman and may live many years she may cost the city Í3.000 or f4,0()0 m re befoie she dies Another case wi s that of a foreigner who had served time at B.acUwell's I-iland, and, after leaving there, had been shipped from C.i-tle Garien to Pittsburgh. and, after being taken to the poor farm, stolen go. ds were fouud in his posgession. He then admitt d that he had beeu a thief before he carne to this country. The city institntions, he sa'd, were crowded to overfliw ng, and if it were not for the f oreigners who are uot enttledto land here, ch.i fly through Castle Gar en, there would be píen y of room for the care of those who were justly entitled lo it. Julge R rusey's test mony was a corroboration of that of Mr. Eliiott. Examiner Hcffman said he had seen immigrants with brands of a fore.gn workhouse ticketed t d fErrent seotions of the country, and that the mmicrrants had applied to the Bueau of Caarity lor relief the day after arriving at Castle Garden.