The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-12
Over Two Hundred Thousand For
eigners Arrived Last Year.
MIR. POWDERLY'S REPORT
SUGGESTS A LAW TO PREVENT
FRAUDS IN REGISTRATION.
Immigrants Should Be Provided With
Certificates, Showing Date of Ar
rival-Over Three Thousand Were
Sent Back During the Year
Greatest Number Came From Italy


Washington, Nov. 11-Cemmissioner
General T. ". Powderly of the inmi-
grafton bureau, in his annual report
to the secretary of the treasury, gives
the total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during the
last fiscal year as 229, 999, a decrease,
as compared with the fiscal year 1897,
of 1868. OF the whole number, 1879
were males and 1854 females; 1O,O37
came into the United States through
Canada. During the year 5000 were
debarred, and of this number there
were u insane, one idiot, 2,26l paupers,
or persons likely to become a public
charge; 25T diseased persons, two con-
victs, 10 assisted immigrants and All
contract laborers. One hundred and
ninety mine We're returned within one
wear after landing. Of the whole num-
Der over IA years Of age, 43,057 could
neither read nor write, 2l,6U8 over ~
years Of age had $50 or over, and 96,Z0S
had less than $50. The total amount
of money shown by immigrants during
| the year was $3,S72, or, but the actual
amount brought over was probably
greatly in excess, of this amount.
OF the whole number of arrivals, S.
| 613 came from Italy, 27,221 from Rus
STA proper, 25,12S from Ireland, IT'LL
| from Germany, 1868 from Hungary
! L, 400 from Galicia and Burkowina, in
! Austria Hungary; II, 1898 from Sweden,
and 99S7 from England.
! The commissioner suggests an
| amendment to the laws, excluding i'm
migrants shown to be afflicted with a
/ loathsome or a dangerous contagious
disease, from the right Of appeal or of
! a hearing before the board of special
inquiry. He also recommends that the
head tax be increased from 81 to 81,
$50 as to furnish" he says, a fund
sufficient to enlarge the bureaus oper-
ations to their full capacity for use
fulness in protecting American citizens
! from disease, taxpayers from the i'm
position of unjust burdens, the hospit-
ais, charitable and penal institutions
from an influx of aliens, native pro
ducers from unjust competition, and
the social and political institutions OF
the country from Generalization by the
kcorrupt citizens of other countries"
1t is also recommended that the act
which prohibits the expenditure of a
greater sum for immigration purposes
than shall be collected at the port, be
repealed.
FRAUDULENT STANDARDIZATION.
Mr.. Powderly states that the natural
ization laws Of the United States have
been repeatedly violated, and, in his
opinion, each arriving immigrant, when
admitted to the United States, should
be provided with landing certificate
setting forth the name, age, sex, birth
place of the immigrant, government tC
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 immigrant should be in
structed by means of a, circular to re-
tain the certificate. for presentation
when applying for naturalization pa
pers.
A record of the facts stated in the
circular as to each immigrant, to bf
known as an immigrant directory
should be kept for each fiscal year by
the bureau of immigration. An act o.
congress- authorizing such a course O.
procedure and requiring the alien pre-
senting himself for naturalization t.
produce such a certificate or duplicate
from theN immigrant directory, would
facilitate the workdof the courts ami
go far towards preventing the issuance
of fraudulent naturalization papers.
The commissioner general eXpresse
the belief that the figures given of TIL
arrival of immigrants through Canad;
represent only part of the actual i'm
migration through that country AM
suggests as a remedy the enactment o
, a law authorizing the secretary of tn
treasury to designate certain point
along the border separating the Unite'
States from the Dominion of Canada
: to be the sole ports of entry to thi
country of trans Atlantic and trans
: Pacific immigrants, and of all Canadi
ans who shall not have resided in Can
/ ada for at least five years prior to tn
: immigration to this country. 1t WOul
be possible, under such a provision, h
2 says, to abolish. the present official sta
tions on Canadian soil and to transfe
the officials so placed to this side c
the boundary, locating them at sue
points as the secretary shall designate
: where buildings could be erected 70
the accommodation Of immigrants
f pending examination. as at the sea
t ports of the United States.