New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-11
IMMIGRATION REPORT
Decrease of SO Per Cent Sho1cn for
Last Fiscal Year.

Washington jan. 1o-As shown by the annual
report Of the Commissioner General OF Irnmigra-
tian for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1908, the
work Of the bureau in many respects the most
comprehensive and interesting performed by
II. Despite a decrease Of 80 per cent in immigra-
tion the work OF the bureau increased nearly 20
per cent during the fiscal year.
The report was prepared under the direction OF
F. H Lerned, Deputy Commissioner Of Immigra-
ton. owing to the death OF Commissioner General
Frank P. Sargent 1t gives the total Immigration
for the year as 782 $40, 60247e less than for the
previous fiscal year. During the last year 1o.so2
aliens rejected. against 1Sos4 in the previous
year
port, for the first time furnishes figures which
show approximately the net increase in population
by immigration. The figures indicate that the net
increase EOS, S67- OF the aliens admitted $780,
s71 were between the ages OF fourteen and forty
four years; 1928 could neither read nor write
and 2,310 could read but not write Therefore
about 26 per cent illiterate. a. decrease OF
per cent in comparison with 1907 The total amount
of money brought into the country by immigrants
was ST. 1884, 26, average OF almost S23 person
The report says that the change in the law e1-
tending the filming provisions to cover the bringing
Of mentally well physically diseased aliens
to the United States and placing tuberculosis under
the same ban. Is OF great benefit During the year
1905 aliens were rejected account OF physical,
$40 account Of mental and 81 on account Of
moral defects; to which should be added so re-
5ected for minor physical or mental defects suf-
1ciently grave to affect ability TO a living.
The number Of criminals apprehended and deported
increased from eleven in 1907 TO torty-one In lSS
Two alien anarchists deported There was
great activity in the suppression of the importa-
ton Of alien women for immoral purposes. OF these
women 124 were rejected were forty-three per-
sons engaged In importing them;, forty-four alien
immoral women and two procurers were deported
from the country; fourteen procurers convict
ed and sentenced to terms of Imprisonment and
fines. The report shows that the enforcement OF
the law relating to alien contract labor unprec-
edentedly successful. In the year 1882 contract
laborers rejected and go were arrested and
expelled from the country.
The report expresses qualification with what has
been accomplished in enforcing the Presidents
proclamation directing the exclusion of Japanese
and Corean laborers who, after obtaining from
their governments passports to Hawaii,
Canada or Mexico used such passports, contrary
to the wishes OF their governments, to obtain
entry to the mainland the United States. In the
course of the previous fiscal year a19S Japanese
aliens applied for admission to the United States
In the year ended June 30, 1908. 1884 Japanese
aliens applied for admission. OF those applying for
admission in the last year 1925 admitted The
total increase in population by Japanese immigra
ton 1926
The report indicates inadequacy Of the law to
accomplish, without cause for complaint the ex-
cluson of Chinese, who barred by the statute
The smuggling OF Chinese into the United States
vicinity Of the land boundaries and deported.
The report urges the government to take effective
means to prevent the congestion of arriving aliens
in the great centres OF population During the year
80 per cent of the aliens arriving United States
ports destined to New York 1t is pointed out
that of the states. particularly in the South
and West, vitality interested In obtaining set
tiers. "Yet the law says the report. does
not, in terms and according to the literal letter,
contemplate in the exception than that the
said states should be allowed to place in foreign
| newspapers and magazines advertisements describ-
ing in general terms the opportunities for settlers
| and wage within their limits" 1t is rec
commended that Congress authorize the extension of
I the work of the division of information, that
concerning desirable localities in the United
| States, to the end that they may locate in such
places will afford them prompt and remuneratlve
employment.
Considerable space is devoted to the report Of
| Judge Richard K. Campbell. chief of the Division
| of Naturalization. It recommended that a sufh-
cient appropriation be made to organize force of
examiners to investigate petition for naturali
cation. II Is recommended also that the fees al
lowed clerks of courts be increased In order to
afford the officials adequate compensation for the
labor involved Through the work of this division
the government has complete records of all
applications for naturalization papers and COM
plete record the for the acceptance
lection of any such applications