The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
which will grow greater ana brishter with each receding age"
Wnnt. nirths Reri.ter.a.

ten forgotten In the census returns and birth statistics are far from as accu- rate as they should be. Accordingly the Bureau has prepared a draft in rough of a measure 1t wishes enacted by the legislatures of the States. re- quiring all births to be registered It Is intended to urge the passage of the bill at the next sessions of the fegis- latures so as to make the provisions operative as soon as possible. The bill bureau officers say will be found l in no way obnoxious and will involve no extra expense to cities or counties Ii has not yet been decided who will be the patron of the bill, but a letter | 10 each legislature will point out many reasons why 1t should be passed. The hope is that under the advice of the Census Bureau uniform laws of birth registration will be enacted. Pennsyl- yania and several other States havc already acted along this line.
 Wanted-New Treasury Watchdog. Speaker Cannon is pestering some I just now over the problem of finding a man m his big majority fit to assume the large responsibility to the country to his party, to the treasury and to him which goes with the chairmanship of the House Committee on Appropria- tions. Your Uncle Joe himself wears reputation dS HdNlHS bCCh Nho Vhiy real treasury watchdog his party ever had. excepting Hemenway, now United States Senator from Indiana. Uncle Joe's bite showed that as a genuine watchdog he lived up to his bark. When he became Speaker he appointed Hemenway Chairman of the Appropri- ations Committee. He wore the Can-
 non collar to the satisfaction of the Speaker and did obediently ali the tricks he was told to do. But now since MT Hemenway is trying to keep from stepping on the skirts of Senator Fairbanks's toga which he took off to take the oath of office as Vice-Presi- dent. Speaker Cannon is put to it to find another tractable watchdog. It is current report that he has so far failed to find q single member of the majority who to his mind can fill the difficult post. Representative Mo- Cleary is a clean, dressy gentleman. with a sort of one-idea devotion to a high protective tariff; he has never tussled in debate with anybody, confin' ing himself to prepared speeches. The
 chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee requires member who will stand steady on the firing line. know how to shoot back and keep fully sup piled with Effective ammunition. New ertheless, Mir. McCleary wants the place Another Minnesotan. Represen" tative Tawney. Is anxious for the chairmanship, but Speaker Cannon ap-
 prehends the possibility of feud be- tween the two that might embarrass the party before the end of the ses- sion, should he choose Tawney. Taw- ney is quick of wit, apt and forceful on his feet and unusually we'll inform ed on the general run of legislative topics.
 "Mr. Tawney," said a friend who I,i fa aaaIfknu fha appointment; he realizes that it would bring about a very disagreeable situa- tfon. Personally, I do not believe he will get the appointment, or that Mo Cleary will get 1t. If 1t were not for the candidacy of Mir. McCleary, be- Iieve there would be no doubt of Taw- ney being chosen"
 Some talk Is going of Littauer of New York for the place. notwithstanding the lingering odor from his glove contract. Just now the most respectable opinion Is that Mir. Burton of Ohio. familiar to the country as chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee, will be trans ferred from that committee to the head of the Appropriations Committee. His exceptional ability Is not questioned Tn any quarter, but the partisans of hls side of the House rather dread his way of making independent breaks now and then. He could much help the Speaker.
 
 Immigration.
 The close of the siscal year. June SO, 1905, marked the breaking of the record of immigration to the United States' the total from Europe, Asia and all oth- CT countries being 1,026,499. an increase of 2I3,S70 over 1904, and 169.724 more than the highest previous record, which was 1903.
 Since the beginning of the recording of immigrants in 1920 with the close of the last fiscal year the number or immigrants to the United States has reached the grand aggregate Of 2S,59f'- 7sI No such tide of humanity ever fio~ved in one direction as has fallen upon our shores and distributed tsef anon gthe States.
 Before 1920, when the immigration record was S,3S5 the estimate for the total of immigration to that time from 17S9 was 250,OOO
 The figures for the succeeding years showed a steady increase. with very few instances of decrease. In 1882 i'm migration jumped from 22,633 to 6O,4S2' In lS42 1t passed over 100000 and the next year dropped back to 52.0OO. In two years it went to 114,3ll. II reached 234g6S in 1S47. and during the period of the gold discoveries In California, from lS49 to 1860, there came to the United States 2,S27,945 immigrants. Ihe highest record before the Civil War was in 1854, when perhaps the discovery or gold in California in paying quantities
 had become widest known throughout the word, the number of immigrants
 being 427S33. It was not untll Io'"
 that these figures were passed, lmmi- grafton for that year being 459'SOS. Ine
 panic and hard times of that year ar
 fected the current of aliens and there
 was a decrease until the beginning or
 the sos. The highest record to that date was 669.4 in 1881 The next year
 1t went to 7SS, ,992, and then had vary ing decreases until 1903. when IL began to climb to enormous figures Whlch have been maintained. The lmmlSra- tion in 1903 was S57,046; in l904' SlI'oip' or the 1,026,49 immigrants who ldhu ed on our shores during the last hscal year. 974273 were from Europe Z5'sz' | from Asia and the rest from other countries and islands Austrla-Hnn- gary. Italy and the Russian Empire hg- ure heavily in the years immigration l There was an increase of 9b,53t over | last year from Austria Hungary, an m crease of 2S.1S3 for Italy and of 39,lbo | from the Russian Empire. The imml- grafton from these three countries for | the past three years was as follows:
 1905. 1904. 1903. Austria
 Italy .....221,479 193,296 2SO'oZZ
 Russian Elm ooo | hire 1s6,S97 145,141 136,093 | Great Britain comes next in number of migrants. For the first time in I sE-.., IfFagr