URGES HALT TO ASIATIC INFLUX

Commissioner General of Immigration Caminetti Warns Against Threatened Movement After War.

Washington, Thursday, Dec. 7 -- Warning against a threatened migration of the populations of Western Asia to the United States is contained in the annual report of Commissioner General Anthony Caminetti of the immigration service made public today. The war and conditions immediately after its close will stay the stream for a time, but steps to head it off must be taken before transportation interests begin to cull the field for their business, the report declares.

Immigration from the far Orient, too, is a problem still unsolved, the report sets forth. The systems heretofore devised to deal with it do not promise much movement, and machinery for enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act is not adequate or well adapted, it says. Arrangements for the admission of Japanese, it is declared, should be amended to fit conditions better.

"The Chinese exclusion law," says the report, "should be so modified as to make use of the same administrative methods and means are as employed in enforcing the general immigration law; and the Japanese arrangement should be so changed as to eliminate therefrom those exceptions that have a tendency so to broaded as to reduce materially the efficiency of the otherwise fairly satisfactory plan."

Hindu Immigration Takes Care Of.

Hindu immigration, which would be permitted more freely under a recent supreme court decision, will be taken care of in the Burnett immigration bill pending in Congress.

Smuggling of Chinese, the report says, has been combated vigorously with the result that amateur smuggling has been stamped out to a large degree. Higher prices that Chinese are willing to pay therefore, it is said, has attracted to the business an expert class of criminals who use more scientific methods. A bigger appropriation is asked to meet the problem.

The war situation, the report says, has presented many difficult legal and administrative questions at seaports and along the Canadian border.

The report describes the development of its employment service and outlines an extension of its policy of cooperation with state and municipal employment agencies.