The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-12
TURNED BACK.
5000 Foreigners We're Refused Ad-
mission Last Year.


mission Last Year.
Washington, Nov 12.-Commissiouer
General T. V. Powderly, of the immi-
grafton bureau, in his annual report to
the secretary of the treasury, gives the
total number of immigrants who arriv-
ed in the United States during the last
fiscal year as 229, ,229; a decrease as
compared with the fiscal year 1897 of L.
653. OF the whole number 135,775 were
males and SO 524 females. /, ,073 came into
the United States through Canada.Dur-
ing the year 5000 were debarred and of
this number there were II insane, 1
idiot, 2.261 paupers, or persons likely to
become a public charge, 257 diseased
persons, 2 conVictS, 79 assisted emf
grants and AIT contract 1aborerS. One
hundred and ninety-nine were returned
within one year after landing. OF the
whole number over IA years of age, l.
416 could not write, 43,057 could neither
read nor write, 27,60S over 20 years of
age had $50 or over and 96,2O3 had less
than $50.
The total amount of money shown by
immigrants during the year was 3d.
1921 OF, but the actual amount brought
over was probably greatly in excess of
this amount. OF the whole number of
arrivals, SIS, 613 came from Italy, 27,221
from Russia proper, 25, ,12S from Ireland,
II, Ill from Germany, 1853 from Hun
gary Il, ,420 from Galicia and BurkOwina
in AuStria-HungarY II, 1893 from SWed-
en- and 9,9S7 from England. OF the total
number of steerage passengers arrived
fists, 153 c1ergymen, II editors, 43 en-
gravers, 81 lawyers, 223 musicians, 81
physicians, 1856 scupltOrs, 2S8 teachers,
447 accountants, 1863 bakers, 1,O32 bar
bers, LISP blacksmiths, $50 brewers, l.
074 butchers, ,904 carpenters and join
ers, 706 dressmakers, 635 mariners, l.
81 masons, 1904 miners, TAI painters
972 seams StreSSeS, 1927 ShOemakerS, s.
826 tailOrs, l, 1872 weavers, five bankers,
S36 cooks, 6,243 farmers, 1883 grocers,
50, ,531 Iaborers, 4,429 merchants, and 23,-
656 servants. These figures, however,
the report states, are not to be relied
upon as indicating the pursuit they will
follow in this country, for 1t is reason
ably certain that many of the new ar
rivals did not engage in farming, and II
is equally certain that more than l.
606 miners found their way to the coal
regions.
The total arrivals of male immigrants
during the present fiscal year are slight
" in excess of those for the year next
before it, and it is fair to assume, the
report states, represent more des1ra-
BILE class, since those from european
countries show an increase 27O3 While
those from other sources principally AS
iatic exhibit a decrease 2,062.
The commissioner suggests an amend
nent to the laws excepting immigrants
shown to be afflicted with loathsome
or a dangerous contagious disease from
the right of appeal or of hearing be
fore the board of special inquiry. He
also recommends that the head tax pc
increased 81 to 81, so as to furnish, ne
says, "a fund sufficient to enlarge the
bureaus operations to thelr tull capac-
ity for usefulness in protecting Amefl-
can citizens from disease, tax payers
from the imposition of unjust DurdenS,
the hospitals charitable and penal IN
stitutions from an influx of aliens, pro
ducers from unjust competition ana the
social and the political institutions OF
the country from decentralization by cor
rlpt citizens of other countries.
It is also recommended that the act
which prohibits the expenditure of
greater sum Sor immigration purposes
at any port than shall have been cOIlecl-
ed at that port be repealed.
Mr. PoWderly states that the natura-
IiZation laws of the United States have
been repeatedly violated, ana IN ms
opinion each arriving em1grant When
admitted to the United States should be
provided with a landing certificate set
ting forth the name, age, sex, birth
place of the emigrant, government TO
which allegiance is due, the port from
which the vessel sailed, the name of the
vessel the line it belongs to, the port
it arrives at, and the date OF LANDING
The enigrant should be instructed by
means of a circular to retain the cert1-
ficate for presentation when applying
for naturalization papers. A record OF
the facts stated in the said circular as
to each Immigrant. to be known as an
immigrant directory, should be kept for
each fiscal year by the bureau of inn1-
grafton. An act of congress, authoriz-
ing such a course of procedure and re
Quiring of the alien presenting hlmselI
for naturalization to produce such
certificate or a duplicate from the immi-
grant directory, would facilitate the
work of the courts and go far toward
preventing the issuance of fraudulent
naturalization papers.
The commissioner general expresses
the belief that the figures given of the
arrival of emigrants through Canada
represent only a part of the actual emf
grafton through that country and sug-
gests as a remedy the enactment of
law authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to designate certain points
along the border separating US from the
dominion to be the sole ports of entry
to this country of Transatlantic and
Transpacif1c immigrants, and of all
Canadians who shall not have resided
in Canada for at least five years prior
to the emigration to this country. It
would be possible under such a pro-
vision he says, to abolish the official
stations on Canadian soil and transfer
the officials now so placed to this side
of the boundary locating them at such
points as the secretary shall designate
where buildings could be erected for the
accommodation of immigrants pending
examination as at the sea ports of the
United States.
THE OIEEN'S MIND.