The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-16
TT'UGRATIoNREPORT
, ,ss,oNra-GENEnAL's REPORT
 HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED.
st a,,u srst vsst fncrease Has Come f,,rs.r Past--Over 100000
 Have LaHdeA From Foreign


 W., .h,nrton. Dec. 15.--1mmigration far Inc year ending June 30, 1907, was stiy greater than in any previous vear In the history or the un.sa ss a,es This fact. with all it's interest sa~ ard important details. is placed m stron light in the annual report of FrsnE P. sargent. Commissioner-Gen- srLI If Imnigration and Naturalfza sfsr. eshich was made public today. of ssfg great flood of immigrants. Com ,nissio oer Sargent says:
 X army of 1,2S5.34s souls. they have come, drawn hither by the Iree institutions and the marvellous pros. nerity of our countryside chance iare sfforded every honest toiler to gain Livelihood by the sweat of his piow or the exercise of his intellisenee--- surpassing in numbers .he recorc or all preceding years. ,oa, The immigration Cor the year .sos exceeded that for tSg6 by lsA.st4 ahd that for the year 1905 by 25s,sso, or an increase over the year 1906 or more 1905 of more than 25 per cent. During the fiscal year 1906. 12.432 aliens we're rejected at our ports; during the past fiscal year 13.164, an increase or oSsi hence the total number Of those NWno . have sought admission in 1soI, VIZ 1,29S,413, exceeds the number who ap- piled in 1906, viz., 1,113,8l7, by iso'' 24S. .. comnaisstoner Sargent says 1t is oi particular significance that many 'ui migrants landed at ports in the oeutN during the past year, and he refers especially to a party of 473 Belgians- excellent types of immigrants-re cefved at Charleston, s. C., having peer induced to go there by the State au' thorities. The increase of immisra' tion to tho South, the Commisstoae' says, "is directly connected Win ,nt growing desire of the Southern seatet fo draw within their boundaries . humber of the better class Of fmmi' grants, 1t being considered by practi. cally all of the leading men or tnal section /that the future development and welfare of the South depend nror it's ability to receive and absorb a re. liable laboring and tarming cement
 Striking increases are also snowr at New Orleans, Galveston aad 1ono lulu. The tide of immigration Iron some of the countries is indicated by the following figures: ..-
 Austria Hungary, 3Ss,452. increase 73,3l4; Bulgaria, Servia and Montene' gro. 11,359, increase, 6,693; France 9,7s1, increase, 345; German Empire 37,s07. increase. 24S; Greece. S6,5So. in crease, 17,091; Italy, including Sicil, and Sardinia. 2s5.731. increase. 12.6ll increase. 4S,27s; Turkey. 2O.7s7, in crease, 11,257; England 56,637, in crease, 7.14s; Ireland. 34.53o. decrease 465; Scotland, 19,740, increase, 3,S74 China, 6e1, decrease, 5s3i Japan. 30.22e increase, 16,331 British North Amer lea, 1s,s1s, increase. 14.s55; West In dies. 1s,sss. increaSe. s.oss.
 In a discussion of the new immigra tien act, Commissioner Sargent strong ly urges that< advantage be taken o a provision 1t contains for calling al international conference on immigra tion and emigration. Tn his opiniol now Is the time to a9. He says:
 There has never been a period whe all the principal countries of the worl were so deeply interested in the sub ject. Several of the leading Europeat or introduced in their Legislature! Immigration laws, some of which ar modelled practically after our own Some Of the governments are takin notice with the idea of adoptin measures to discourage the migratio of their citizens to induce their return others are solicitous lest their sub jects should forget their allegiance. an altogether there should be no dtmcul ty in appealing to this awakened gen eral interest with the object of accom plishing some international arrange nnent and understanding that will wor for the general good.
 The Commissioner points out furthe that either through such. an interna tional conference or amendments to ou laws adequate provision should b made for the issuance of proper pass ports to persons who are coming America. By this means such organ' zations as the "Black Hand Society could not gain a foothold here, beeaus the passport would have to bear tn record of the alien. It would do muc too, the Commissioner believes, to pt an end to the white slave traffic."
 Among the recommendations made Commissioner Sargent are the follow ing: stationed at the principal ports of en barkation abroad to examine aliens bt fore they start for America.
 The arrangements be perfected ft the detection of members of the erin final classes who seek to come to th United States.
 That a treaty be negotiated wit Mexico respecting immigration throlg that country; or if that cannot be don that the Mexican border be closed to a aliens except our own citizens an bona fde residents of Mexico.
 That a harmonious arrangement made with the Canadian governmer respecting the enforcement of the in migration laws of that country and tf United States.
 That immigrant stations be erecte at Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore