The record-union., 1899-10-27
The Arrivals for the Year Ended
on June 30th
Over Elghty-TWo thousand In Excess Of
the Preceding Twelve Months.
Statistics and Recommendations
Presented in the Annual Report
of Commissioner General Pow
derly to the Secretary of the
Treasury.

| WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-In his an
nual report to the Secretary of the
Treasury Commissioner General Pow
derby of the Immigration Bureau gives
the total arrivals for the year ended
June so, 1899, as 81, ,715, an increase
over the next preceding year of S2,416,
or 36 per cent. The opinion is eX-
| pressed that at least $4,000 persons
were not listed in this number. through
a defect in the law, as we'll as an in
determinate number from Canada and
Mexico, who are not under existing
/ regulations accounted for.
The increase over the figures for last
year is represented largely by immi-
grafton from Europe, specifically from
Italy. Austria Hungary and Russia
which show gains respectively of 49,
| S06, 30, 694 and 81 ,154. OF the total
arrivals Europe supplied 297 ,349. Asia
1912, Africa 81 and all other coun-
tries 5,343. The distribution as to sex
was 195, ,227 males and 116,43S females:
as to age, 1888 were under II, 24S. .1S7
from II to 40 and 10, ,545 of 40 years or
over.
AS to illiteracy. 6O446 could neither
] ISdU nor Write anu Luz COulQ I6du DuI
We're unable to write AS to amount
! of money brought. 39,0S1 had each $50
or over and 174,613 had each less than
$50. The total amount of money ex-
] hibited to officers was S5,414, ,462. There
were returned to their own countries
within one year after arrival 2632 In
addition to 796 paupers and 303 alien
contract laborers debarred on the Ca
/
were refused admission one idiot, nine
teen insane persons, 2,599 paupers or
persons likely to become public charges,
34S diseased persons, 8 convicts, 81 as
sisted immigrants and TAI contract
laborers, making a total of 3,7S9 The
number of contract laborers debarred
last year exceeded the number for the
next preceding year by 77 per cent.
Legislation is recommended TO en-
able the Commissioner General to have
investigations made at the centers of
labor in this country to which contract
laborers are destined.
The recommendation of last year is
repeated as to the necessity for trans
ferring the immigration stations at
! Canadian ports to certain designated
/ points on our boundary, which shall be
!
ing through the Dominion. This rec
ommendation is sustained by figures
showing that the immigration through
Canada has largely increased, and that
the care exercised by the officials at
the American ports is merely diverting
the tide of immigration through a
channel offering little obstruction.
1t is also recommended that infor-
| ha
ber of aliens annually leaving foreign
countries; also that the authority of
the bureau be extended so as to include
the subject of naturalization to such
extent as may be necessary to prevent
fraud.
A severance of the connection be-
tween the customs and immigration
branches of the Government is urged.
| With regard to the islands now held
under military authority as an out
come of the war with Spain, the opn-
ion is expressed that the prompt ex-
tension of the immigration laws to-
them by order of the Secretary of War
will avoid many embarrassments
1t is also recommended that the au-
thority of the Secretary of the Treas
ury be extended to the arrest and de-
|
violation of the alien law, as we'll as
to such as have landed in disregard Of
the provisions of the alien contract
labor laws: to extend from one to five
years the time within which aliens who
have become public charges of insti-
tutions may be deported, on the ground
that those seeking relief from the bur
den during the four additional years
defray the expense of the deported
alien to the port of departure the bu-
reau defraying the cost Of steamship
| transportation.
1t is also recommended that author
ity be granted allowing the manifests
of cabin passengers to be made up dur
ing the voyage, and their certification
on arrival at an American port before
an Immigrant Inspector. 1t is also
recommended that to prevent a defeae
of the purposes of the law through the
claim of passengers to be visitors mere
ly and not immigrants, the laws be
extended to all aliens, including sea-
men on foreign vessels, after discharge
| at a port of the United States
| The cost of alien contract labor laws
during the year was $S7,T25 and of the
immigration laws $2SS,002