The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-08
Board of Engineers Make Re-
port on the Needs of the
Ohio Rover
OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS
ANNUAL REPORT ON iMMIGRA-
TON SHOWS THAT OVER A
MILLION ALIENS CAME TO
AMERICAS SHORES IN 1906.
Publishers Pressl

Washington, Jan THE board OF
the needs OF the Ohio river between
Pittsburg and Cairo in the way OF
navigation, completed its report and
1t will come before the river and
harbor board for review before being
submitted to congress. 1t is said the
original board recommended the i'm
provement of the river by dredging a
channel nine feet deep between the
points named. The river and harbor
reviewing board will meet in the city
in the course of a day or two to con
slider the report.
Secretary Taft announced that Col
Edward S. Godfrey. Ninth cavalry,
will be appointed brigadier general. to
succeed Gen. J. Franklin Bell, pro-
NOTED to be major general.
1t was announced at the war de-
partment that the commission having
in charge the erection in this city OF
an equestrian statue of Gen. George
B. Mcclellan fixed on May as the
as previously stated.
George B. Cortelyou announced his
retirement as chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee. Harry S.
New, of Indiana. vice chairman, will
become acting chairman of the com
mittee.
According to the annual report of
the commissioner of immigration.
Frank Sargent, the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1906, produced a record
eclipsing all former figures on immi-
grafton. During that period, the report
says, the population of the United
States was increased by the admission
OF 1,100,735 immigrant aliens and 65,-
618 non-immigrant aliens entered at
it's ports, making the total admission
of 1,166,353 The increase over last
years record of 1,059.755 1,o26,4 99
aliens plus 1926 transits) was 1867
sos. During the fiscal year 1905, IL ,4S0
aliens were rejected, and during the
past year 12.432. OF the immigrant
aliens, that is those who intended set
764,46 males and 336,272 females.
The tendency of immigration during
the past few years to gather its steady
increase from the countries of south
ern Europe is referred to.
Without exception" says the re-
port, the countries from which we
formerly obtained the greater part OF
our foreign population and which are
inhabited by races nearly akin to our
own, have supplied us with smaller
numbers during the past year than
during 1905-Ire,and 1880, England
1928, Sweden 1921, Germany 800,
Denmark 1929 and Scotland LII
less. On the other hand, the four
most considerable gains are: Italy.
51,641; Russia. 30.76S; Greece, 1914,
and Turkey Tin Europe and Asia,
5,165. immigration from Austria Hun
gary amounted to 265, 13s: Italy, in
Guiding Sicily and Sardinia. 273, 100;
Russian empire and Finland. 215, S65
China, 1.544; Japan, 1885. and the
West Indies, 1866. The immigration
from southern and eastern Europe.
the commissioner says. is a result of
general unrest existing among labor
ing classes of those sections, which is
encouraged or even fomented by the
agents securing the country Ior pas
sengers, and the commissioner says
more drastic measures are required to
effect a discontinuance of the steam
ship practices. That the physical and
mental quality of the aliens we are
now receiving is much below that of
those who have come in former years,
he says, is evident. The north Allan
tic and north central states together
received 90 per cent of the entire i'm
migration of 1906. the south per
cent. AS in previous years, the bulk
Of the Immigrants were destined
avowedly to few of the large centers
Of population.
DR.. Lewis Kloptsch, editor of the
Christian Herald, New York, trans
mitted to the American National Red
Cross the following cablegram from
DR.. McCrea, chairman of the Chinese
relief committee at Chinkiang, dated
January 5: "viceroy Tuan Fong es-
Inmates 100000 destitute missionar-
les confirmed. Area affected nearly
equal to New York state Winter on.
Crisis unprecedented. Suffering in
tense. Deaths beginning. Five months