The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-08
More Than a Million Aliens
Sought Our Shores During
Last Fiscal Year.
HEAVY INCREASE FROM
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE
Falling Off in Number From Ire
land, England, Scotland and
Northern Countries.

WASHINGTON, Jan THE fiscal
year ended June 80 1906, produced a
record eclipsing all former figures on
the subject of immigration according
to the annual report OF Frank Sargent,
| commissionergcn Of immigration.
! During that perind, the report says, the
population of the United States was
increased by the admission of I,100.1 1S5
immigrant aliens, and 65,6ls nonimmi
grant aliens entered its ports, making
the total admission l66,353. The in
crease over last year s record of 1852
I55 was l06,599.
During tho fiscal year 1905 the de-
! partment rejected ll,4s0 aliens. and
| during the past year l2.432 OF the i'm.
tended settling in the United States.
without exception, the report
says, 1.-THE countries from which we
formerly obtained the greater part of
our foreign population and which are
! inhabited by races nearly akin 70 our
own, have supplied us with smaller
! numbers during the past year than dur
! ing l905-lreland, 1850 England l5,
! 2ls, Sweden, 32Sl; Germany. 3010;
u.
On the other hand, the four most CON
| siderable gains are: Italy, 5l,64l; Rus
sin. 30,765: Greece, 1914, and Turkey,
5l65.
Undesirable Glass Increasing,
The immigration from Austria Hun
gary amounted TO 265,l3s; Italy in
| Guiding Sicily and Sardinia, 273; ;120: :
Russia and Finland, 2l5 Cos, China,
1874; Japan, 1885, and thc West In
dies, 1856 The immigration from
: southern and eastern Europe, the com
missioner says, is a result of general
unrest among the iaborlng classes The
! commissioner says that drastic measures
are required TO effect discontinuance
of these steamship practices.
That the physical and mental quail
lty of the aliens we are now receiving
is much below that of those who have
come in former years, he says, is oyi-
dent
The north Atlantic and north Cen
trail States, together received 40 per
cent of the entire immigration of 1906;
the South, per cent.
Schemes to Bring in Japs,
The report refcrs to what the com
missioner believes to have been eXten-
sive schemes TO secure foreign labor
brought to light in the past year and
now being Investigated. The evidence
is already at hsnd, tho report says, TO
! show that some individual or corpora
tion is engaged IN Importing numbers
| of japanese labo-ers TO work on the
railroads of the Northwest These
Japanese come to Hawaii. destined to
hotels KEEP by labor agents. and
claim that they are merely seeking la
Dor that may be secured In the islands.
They are admitted to the islands and
after remaining a few days or weeks
there, they ship for Northwestern main
land ports. Having been admitted at
the Hawaiian ports, their voyage thence
is - coastwse, and they cannot he cx-
amiued on arrival at the mainland
ports under the alien labor contract
or any other provision of the immgra
ticn laws. japanese immigration di-
rect 10 San Francisco from Japan
dropped during the year to very small
figures, doubtless. the report says. from
causes similar to those Just referred 20.
The immigration commissioner AT San
Francisco reports that Japanese have
been arriving there coastwise from
Honolulu and from Canadian ports at
the rate of 1000 to 5000 per month,
The report saws. That several thou
sand laboreFs have been imported un-
der this evasion O. the law is not
doubted. "
Accommodations at Ellis island, ac.
cording to the report, are entirely in
adequate for the inspection work
Strictly Chinese Exclusion.
The Chinese exclusion law and the
main difficulties attending It's enforce
ment arc discussed. The Commissioner
recommends stationine officers In China
to investigate and approve certificates
issued by the Chinese Government to
members of the exempt classes, such
plan 10 supCrsode that of having the
investigation made oy United States
consular officers. Greatly improved
conditions, resulted from the Presi-
! dent g orders of last spring instructing
consular officers as to their duties con.
cerning these certificates Various
methods are pointed out in the report
by which the Chinese seek to enter
the country in violation of law under
the guise of domicicd merchants. etc
Complete and detailed registration of
again recommended Any Chinese la
borer found in the United States a
year after the registration act, who
has not residence certificate. and is
found 10 be unlawfully here, should,
the report says, be deported.
The Commissioner reports that on
the Mexican border Chinese coolies are
constantly being smuggled into this
country from Mexico.
| Other recommendations are designed
10 prevent the admission of Chinese
minor children, and attaching severe
penalties for permitting Chinese sea.
| men to land
| The Commissioner again recommends
increasing the penalties on steamship
companies for bringing aliens afflicted
| with dangerous or loathsome diseases
| The President 8 suggestion for closing
the Mexican border to all aliens ex-
! cept citizens of Mexico is also urged.
During the early part of the wear,
the report says, the "white slave
| traffic was extensively revived MANY
Of the girls and women imported
for immoral purposes were brought
through Mexico and secured a right TO
citizenship by marrying Chinese born