The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09

total amount of money shown to off,
GERS by immigrants was $16,117,513.
), The comparative thrift of these
Ialiens may be gathered from the fact
that 71.7S2 Germans brought a total of
s.. 4SO.634, while 196117 South Italians
had but s2,159.017; 2S,451 English
brought S1,4O5.365: 27.124 Magyars
showed only S341, 4O1. and 32.9O7 Croa-
tians and Slavonians but $401,111.
Eight thousand seven hundred and
lsixty-nine immigrants were denied ad-
| mission at the ports for the following
reasons: Idiocy. 1: insanity, %; pau
perism, 5,S12: communicable diseases,
l1,773; convicts, 81: polygamists, 1:
immoral women, IS. assisted aliens, g..
land contract laborers, 1856, the largest
number of contract labOrers excluded
in any one year up to the present time.
The reflections for the same causes du
ring the preceding year were 4974.
There were returned during the
wear for causes arising subsequent to
Handing SAT, compared with ass in 1902,
while 1894 were cared for in hospitals,
against 4217 during the preceding
| year.
OF the total steerage immigration
233,546 were Italians, S3,343 We're Poles
79.347 Scandinavians, 76,203 Hebrews
I71.7S2 Germans, 1896 Irish, 34,427
Slovak 32,9O7 Crotian- Slovenianfi 2S,-
451 English. 27,124 Magyars, and 1885,
$50 of other nationalities.
| The system of inspection performed
Iunder agreement with the transporta-
| ton companies on Canadian soil con-
| tinues to be very effective, 1889 aliens
| afflicted with communicable diseases
! having been thus excluded, as COM
pared with 1913 for all seaports.
| The balance on hand in the imni-
grant fund on June 80. 1902. was 1885,,
2S221 The receipts during the year
! ended June 30 1903. were $1.41651514
The expenditures in the enforcement
of the laws were SS2631466 leaving
an unexpended balance on hand of
| $1,2764S2.69.
Chinese Exclusion.
| An agreement has been entered into
with the Canadian Pacific Railroad
company by which il delivers all Chi
inese persons brought through Canada
! over its lines directly to United States
inspection officers and takes back to
| China such as are adjudged by them
to be inadmissible.
| There We're arrested along the Cana
dian border. east of Ohio, for unlawful
| entrance in to the United States, SIS
| Cinnamon. 4S5 Of whom We're dis
charged and 1888 deported. On the Ca
| madam border, west of New York. 325
| were arrester, of whom 105 were dis
| charged and 22O deported At other
| points, 277 We're arrested. 1875 of whom
were discharged and Isl deported.
| During the year, 1895 registered la
| 0orers departed from the United
| States and 1859 returned: 1859 Chinese
| exempt from the exclusion policy I'M
der the treaty applied for admission.
| If whom 1928 were admitted and 236
| We're rejected.
| There was expended for the deporta-
| ion of 535 Chinese persons unlawfully
entering the United States over the
| Canadian border &64,965.71: for the
| deportation of 13S Chinese persons I'M
lawfully in the United States princi-
pally by entering over the Mexican
| border. $15.4O974
Foreign Commerce.
The foreign commerce of the year
was the largest in the history of the
| country. The total imports were valu-
| ed at S1,O25.719.237. and the total ex-
ports at $1.420.151.679. This makes the
grand total of the years commerce So
| 445,S60,916. against $1.714O66116 in
1898. $1.547 O20,316 in 1888, and sf.164,-
| 616.l32 in 1878. Thus the increase in
| the past decade has been more than
| that of the two Immediately preced-
i ing decades combined
The imports of the year exceeded by
more than d hundred millions those of
any preceding year, and for the first
time passed the billion dollar line. The
exports We're larger than in any pre-
ceding year, with the single exception
Of the record year 1901, and, despite
the extraordinary demands of the
home market, fell but $67623312 below
those of that year. The large imports
were chiefly due to the great demands
OF the manufacturers for material for
use in their workshops, and in part
to the general prosperity which led to
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