Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-27
lSEEE HOMES IN AMERICA
Number Of Immigrants Arriving This Year
Shows Large Increase.
OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND LAND
Commissioner Povdcrly's Report
Gives Full statistics as Immigrn-
tion and Oncrs Suggestions for
Its Further Regulation.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.--In his annual
report to the secretary of the treasury Com
missioner General Powderly of the lmnli-
grafton bureau gives the total arrivals for
the year ended June 80, 1893. as 3ll,1l5, an
increase over the preceding YET OF S2,416. or
SO per cent. The opinion is expressed that
at least $4,000 persons were not listed in
this number through defect in the law as
well as an intermediate number from Can
ada and Mexico who are not under existing
regulations accounted for.
The increase over the figures for last
year is reported largely by immigration
from Europe, specifically from Italy,
Austria Hungary and Russia, which shows
gains respectively of 1s,SO6. 22,694 and a.
l54 or the total arrivals Europe supplied
297,349. Asia S,972. Africa fifty-one and all
other countries, 543. The distribution as to
sex was 195,227 males and 116,43S females;
as to age, 43,S9S were under IA, 24S, 1ST from
IA to 40, and 1855 of 45 years or older,
AS to illiteracy. 6O.446 could neither read
nor write, and 1O22 could read, but were
unable to write. AS to amount of money
brought, S9,07l had each $50 or over AMI
1858 had each less than S30 The total
amount of money exhibited to officers was
s5,414,462. There were returned to their
rival, 2,632 In addition to 796 paupers and
500 alien contract laborers debarred on the
Canadian and Mexican borders, there were
refused admission one idiot, nineteen insane
persons, 1859 paupers or persons likely to
become public charges. 34S diseased per-
sons, eight convicts, eghtytwo assisted i'm :
migrants and TAI contract laborers, making
total OF 379S. The number of contract
laborers debarred last year exceeded the
number for the next preceding year by II
per cent.
Legislation is recommended to enable 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 transferring the i'm
migration stations at Canadian ports to GER
tain designated points on our northern boun-
dairy, which shall be the only ports of entry
for aliens coming through the dominion.
This recommendation is sustained by figures
showing that the immigration through Can
ada has largely increased and that the care
exercised by the officials at the American
ports is merely divertng the tide of imm-
grafton through channel offering little OBJ
struction 1t is also recommended that in
formation be collected showing the number
| tries, also that the authority of the bureau
be extended 80 as to include the subject of
naturalization to such extent as may be
necessary to prevent fraud. A severance OF
the connection between the customs and i'm
migration branches of the government is
urged.
Laws Should be Extended.
With regard to the islands now held un-
der military authority as an outcome of the
war with Spain, the opinion is expressed
that the prompt extension of the immigra-
tion laws to them by order of the secretary
Of war, will avoid many embarrassments
| 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 oil
| 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 institutions may be de-
ported, upon condition that those seeking
relief from the burden during the four ad-
ditional years defray the expense of the de-
ported alien to the port OF departure, the
bureau defraying the cost of steamship
transportation
1t is also recommended that authority be
granted allowing the manifests of cabin pas.
sengers to be made up during the voyage
and their certifcation on arrival at al
American port before an immigrant inspec.
tor. 1t is also recommended that to preven
defeat of the purpose of the laws, through
the claim of passengers to be visitors
merely and not immigrants, that the law:
be extended to all aliens, including seameI
on foreign vessels after discharge at por
OF the United States.
The cost of enforcing the alien contrac
labor laws during the year was $751; ,725 anC
OF the immigration laws $2SS, ,O02.