Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-16
JAP |NRUSH PEBBLES
Immigration In 1907 Three Times
 That of 1906.
INCREASE IN ALL CLASSES.

Last Year 1,285,34s Aliens Came In,
 Mostly Hunearians, Italians and Rus
 sians - Commissioner Recommends
 Issuing of Passports at Various Ports.
 Washington, Dec. 16.-Immigration to America during the year ended June 30, 1907, was vastly greater than in any previous year of the history of the United States. This fact, with all its interesting and important details, is placed in strong light in the annual report of Frank P. Sargent, commits sioner general of immigration and naturalization, which was made pub lie. Of this flood of immigrants Con- missioner Sargent says:
 "An army of 1,2S5.349 souls they have come, drawn hither by the free institutions and the marvellous prosper ity of our countrywide chance here af- ferded every honest toiler to gain livelihood by the sweat of his brow or the exercise of his intelligence-sur- passing in numbers the record of all preceding years.
 inc immigration for the year 1907 exceeded that for 1906 by 1S4,614 and that for the year 1905 by 25S,S50, or an increase over the year 1906 of more than r per cent and over the year 1905 of more than 25 per cent. During the fiscal year 1906 12.432 aliens were re- jected at our ports, during the past year 13O64, an increase of 632; hence the total number of those who have sought admission in 1901-viz, 1.29S,- 413, exceeds the number who applied in 19O6-viz, 1,113, ,167, by 1S5,246." Of peculiar significance is the table which shows the number of immi' grants from each foreign country, to- gether with the increases or decreases, as compared with the previous year. | Twenty-seven countries showed ln- creases and eleven decreases.
 The tide of immigration from some | of the countries is indicated by the following figures: Austria Hungary 33S,4 ,452, increase T3,314; Bulgaria. Ser via and Montenegro, 11,359, increase | 6693; France, 9,731, increase 34o German empire, 37,s07, increase 243 Greece, 36,5SO, increase 17,091; Italy including Sicily and Sardinia. 2So, l3l increase 12,611; Russian empire and Finland, 25S,943. increase 4S.27S; Fur key. 20,767, increase 11,257; England 56.637, increase 7,146; Ireland. 34,53O decrease 465: Scotland. 19, TAO. increase | 3,S74: China, 9'1. decrease 5S3: Japan 3O,226 increase 16,391; British Nortf America, 19,91S, increase 14,S55; Wes | Indies, 16GS9, increase 3,O33.
 While the exclusion laws have ren dered practically nil the immigration from China, the immigration from Ja pan, although relatively not great, ha' trebled in the past year. This in crease is significant, too, because i comes in the face of regulations adopt ed by the American government, witl the assent of Japan, which, 1t wa! supposed. would curtail the immigra tion of Japanese to this country yer!
 materially.
 Commissioner Sargent presents ex cerpts from official reports made to hi
 bureau by inspectors sent to Mexico
 and Canada to study the situation
 with special reference to the coming
 of Japanese to America through thos
 countries. The reports show tha
 thousands of Japanese landed in Mex
 ico during the past year and ultimatel.
 gained admission. surreptitiously. int
 this country. Once in the United State
 it was impossible to locate them, ex
 cept in the rarest instances.
 While the regulations concerning
 Japanese immigration have tended t
 reduce the number of regularly admit
 ter immigrants hundreds if not thous
 ands of Japanese still are coming int
 the country by stealth.
 A table showing the outward pas
 senger movement during the past yea develops the fact that that movemen , was greater than in any precedin year for which statistics are available ; The total number of cabin passenger was 224.S93 and other than cabin 344 . 9S9. The aggregate number of out ward bound passengers. J69.Ss2. wa
 T3.145 larger than in 1906.
 In a discussion of the new immigrs
 tion act Commissioner Sargent strong
 Iy urges that advantage be taken of
 provision it contains for calling an 1T
 ternational conference on immigratio
 and emigration. Tn his opinion now
 the time to act.
 The commissioner points out fuTthe , that either through such an intern; tionaI conference or through amen, ments to our laws adequate provision should be made for the issuance . proper passports to persons who al coming to America.
 By this means such organizations a the Black Hand society could not gai a foOthOM here. because tho passpo would have to bear the record of tf alien. It would do much too. the con missioner believes. to put an end to Il white slave traffic