Washington, June 14.
The Federal authorities, tightening their control over aliens in the United-States, have begun taking the fingerprints of all seamen entering New York harbour. They number approximately 500,000 each year. Attorney Cahill unt charge against the Moore McCormick Lines, which he accused of having smuggled- 18 Portuguese stowaways from Brazil into New York last year.
The U.S. Government, he said, intends to. hold all steamship lines operating vessels between the United States and foreign countries to the law, which forbids them to land stowaway aliens in' the U.S.A.
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