The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-27

walls for the year ended June So 1899, as 3l1,-
lla. an increase over the next preceding
year OF sz.il6, or 50 per cent The opinion
Is expressed that at least 800 persons We're
not listed in this number through a defect
IN the law. as We'll as an lndeterminate
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 immigration
from Europe. specifically from Italy, Aus
tria-Hungary ard Russia, which show
gains. respectively, of IL, SO, % 6y4 and 81, 154
OF the total arrivals Europe supplies 49,
349 Asia S.9s2 Africa 81 and all oIner coun-
tries 53f3. The distribution TO sex was
195, ~ males and 116.43S females; as 10 age,
1855 were under fourteen. 24o,lS1 from four
teen to fOrty-five and 1873 OF Iorty-f1ve
years or older. AS TO illiteracy. 60 446 could
neither read nor write and 1,072 could read
but were unable TO write. As TO the amount
over and IA. 6l3 had each less than $50. The
total amount OF money exhibited 10 officers
was s., IA. 462.
There were returned to their own coun-.
tries within one year after arrival 263Z- In
addition TO $50 paupers and 800 alien con-
tract laborerS debarred from the Canadian
and Mexican borders. there were refused
admission 1 idiot, 10 insane persons, 2,0y9
paupers or persons likely TO become public
charges. 34S diseased persons, convicts, 81
assisted immigrants and al contract labor
ers. making total Of 3,79S.
The number of contract laborers debarred
last year exceeded the number for the
next preceding year by "a per cent Legis-,
lation Is recommended to enable the COM
missioner general to have Investigations
made at the centers of labor in this country
10 which contract laborers are destined.
The recommendation of last year is re-
peated as TO the necessity for transferring
the immigration stations at Canadian ports
10 certain designated points on our north
ern boundary, which shall be the only ports
or entry for aliens coming through the
Dominion This recommendation is sus-
tanned. IL is said, by figures showing that
the immigration through Canada has large
~ increased and that the care exercised
by the immigration officials at the Ameri-
can ports Is merely diverting the tide OF
immigration through a channel Offering lit
1t is also recommended that information
be collected showing the number of aliens
that the authority of the bureau be ex-
tended so as TO include the subject Of
naturalization 10 such extent as may be
the connection between the customs and
immigration branches Of the government Is
urged;
der military authority outcome of
the war with Spain the opinion is expressed
that the prompt extension of the immigra-
ton laws TO them by order of the secre-
tary of war will avoid many embarrass-
ments- 1t IS also recommended that the
authority OF the secretary of the treasury
be extended to the arrest and deportation
OF aliens in this country in violation of any
law, as well as TO such as have landed in
disregard OF the provisions of the alien con-
tract labor laws: to extend from one to five
years the time within which aliens who
have become public charges or inmates of
penal or refcrmatory Institutions may be
deported on condition that those seeking
relief from the burden during the four addi-
tional years defray the expenses of the
deported alien to the port of departure. the
bureau defraying the cost of steamship
transportation.
IL IS also recommended that authority be
grant-d allowing the manifests of cabin
passengers to be made UP during the voy-
age and their certifcation on arrival at
an American port before an immigration IN
spector. 1t Is also recommended that to
prevent a defeat of the purposes of the
laws through the claim OF passengers to be
visitors merely and not Immigrants that
the laws be extended to all aliens. includ-
Ing seamen on foreign vessels after dis
charging at a port of the United States
The cost of enforcing the alien contract
labor laws during the year was $S7,725 and
of the immigration laws S2SS OO2