Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-13
IMMIGRATION
At the Lowest Point Since the
General Government
Assumed Jurisdiction Over the Matter
in the Year 1882.
The Number of Arrivals From All Countries
the Last Fiscal Year was 23O,S32-Italy
Furnished the Greatest Number-Sec-
retary of Interior Congratulated.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The tide of
immigration is at the lowest point
since the general government assumed
jurisdiction of the subject in 1882. The
number of arrivals from all countries,
the last fiscal year, was 2S0,-
S32, a decrease as compared with
the previous year of 49, The
highest immigration of any pre-
vious year was in 1895, when the
number from all countries was 279,-
]4s. The year of heaviest immigration
was the first of the period beginning
with 1889 when arrivals numbered 7SS,-
)92. During the entire period of federal
supervision :. 1872 01G having entered the
country. The arrivals of Russian Jews
for the past year numbered %, ,75C, as
againt 45.1ST for the fiscal year ended
June so. 1896
Italy furnished the greatest number
of emiprants, 54.43l. a decrease of 1929
from last year, The cause of the
heavy Italian immigration of 1896, was
assigned TO The war Of Italy with Abys-
sinia, but the figures for the last year
are not abnormal, having been exceed
ed by several years of the period.
Since 1852 there has been a large and
steady decrease in German immigra-
ton: in 1SS2, $50. $50 entered the United
States from that country, while in 1896
only %, ,53G arrived. 1t will be seen
that the number of German immi-
grants during the first year of govern
ment supervision exceeded the immi-
grafton from all countries during the
last year. Immigration from Austria
Hungary decreased from %. 1O3 in 1896.
to 80. OBJ. in 1897 The decrease from
other countries is as follows. England
10, 492 in 1896, to 9,974 in 1897; Sweden.
p, 1877, to 1914: Norway, s,155 to 5,o42;
and Ireland, 4O,2G2 to 2S,+21.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss re-
ceived Wednesday from the president
Of the North American Transportation
and Trading Co., at Seattle, Wash, the
following telegram:
II congratulate you and thank you
for the official warning to people rush
ing to -Klondyke mining coun-
try at this season of the year"
Acting Secretary Ryan, commenting
upon the above dispatch, says it indi-
Gates that there must be a very con-
gested state Of affairs at Seattle and
points of departure for the Klondyke
gold fields or the president of large
transportation company would not APP
prove OF the warning issued Tuesday
by Secretary Bliss.
Surveyor General Diston, recently
appointed for Alaska, qualified We'd
nesday and was at the interior depart
ment consulting with the officials be-
fore taking his departure. He will go
at once to Alaska, but will remain at
Sitka, the capital, awaiting further in
structions from the department.
The Union Iron works of San Fran
cisco has telegraphed the navy de-
partment asking permission to supply
the arnor for the battleship Wisconsin,
which they are building, just as the
Cramps have done in the case of the
Alabama. In reply the firm has been
notified that the department will enter
into correspondence with them on
the subject. The offer win be accepted
if it is made in the same terms as
Cramps' offer