Testimony taken by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. Charles H. Bender, Official Stenographer.

Singerman ID: supp2397
Year: 1888
Entry: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and other Classes. Testimony taken by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. Charles H. Bender, Official Stenographer. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1888. 799 p.
Author/Editor: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and other Classes
Location: Washington, DC
Holdings: In most federal documents collections
Title: Testimony taken by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. Charles H. Bender, Official Stenographer.
Language: English
Printer/Publisher: Government Printing Office
Notes: The volume’s indexing points to scattered references of Jewish interest. For example, S. C. Worthington, agent of the Massachusetts State Board of Lunacy and Charity, reports on the impoverished Russian Jews arriving in Boston and Jews going hungry whenever kosher food is unavailable (pp. 546-60). Includes testimony by J. Judelsohn, director, Jewish Immigrant Protective Society of New York (pp. 289-300), and by Gregory Weinstein (pp. 506-9), reporting on the deplorable sanitary conditions in New York’s Jewish districts. At head of title: 50th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Mis. Doc. No. 572. With, as issued, Reports of Diplomatic and Consular Officers Concerning Emigration from Europe to the United States ... (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889). 157 p.
Collection: Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Type: Government

Part of Testimony taken by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. Charles H. Bender, Official Stenographer.

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and other Classes, “Testimony taken by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. Charles H. Bender, Official Stenographer.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/55332