The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

1907, that from northern and west
ern Europe had decreased from 81
to 20 per cent of the whole, while
that from southern and western
Europe had increased from 10 per
cent to 80 per cent of all coming into
the country.
Presented in another form, from
1920 to 1882, inclusive, a period of
sixty-two years, 9,53S,00O persons, or
SO per cent of the whole immigra-
ton of the country. came from north
ern and western Europe, while from
1888 to 1909, period of only twenty
six years, we received $4,000 per-
sons, only about million less than
we received in the previous period of
sixty-two pears, and of this number
nearly 81 per cent came from south
ern and eastern Europe. This was a
vast influx, as will be seen, of new
and of untried races.
With the increase in the business
industry of the country within the
last twenty years, this current of
new immigration has gone into the
coal mines; it has gone into the
wooden and cotton industries; it has
gone into agriculture; it has gone
along all the lines of industry, and
has found employment The conf
mission has been making a very ex-
hauStive study in more than one
hundred selected localities to show
what effect the coming of those i'm
migrants has had upon the com.
munity and upon the individual
American, and on the other hand,
what effect the American has been
having on the immigrant.
We have, Mr. President, already
very nearly ready to be presented, a
most exhaustive study of the bitumin-
Gus coal industry in this country,
and | call the Senator's attention TO
two or three facts that show the
character of it. We find that the
number of tons of btiuminous coal
produced in Pennsylvania in 1850
recent a date as that-was 23,413,000
in round numbers, while in 1907 it
was 1859 900, or an increase of $50
per cent.
We have gone not only to Pennsvl-
vania, but to other sections of the
country as well, and have made 4
most exhaustive examination of the
immigrant of the new type, who has
been employed in that industry. He
| has been examined from every point
of view; and a report which will
probably make volume of five or
six hundred pages will be presented
showing just precisely how he is be-
having, how he is living, whether ne
Is prospecting, what influence he IS
exerting upon the community, and
what influence the community is hav-
ing upon him. In short, how and to
what extent the work of assimilation
is going on. 1t is very exhaustive
and very valuable report. Without
this appropriation no more reports
of that kind can be made.
In addition to this, we have mater
ial covering the wooden industry the
cotton industry, the glass industry,
the boot and shoe industry, and sew.
eral other of the great industries of
the country, in regard to which much
study has been given, in which in
dustries different nationalities have
been employed.
This amendment, the Senator will
observe, provides that no further
salaries shall be paid to the commits
sioners, and no new field work shall
be undertaken. The commission is
asking for the appropriation simply
that the work on the material already
on hand, which is partly prepared and
partly tabulated, may be completed,
and that reports covering the entire
field of the investigation may be pre-
pared and presented to Congress by
the LIST of December next.
Mr.. Lodge. Mr.. President may in
terrupt the Senator for a moment?
Mr.. Dillingham;. Certainly.
Mr.. Lodge. The Senator from Yer
mont omitted, | think, to mention one
great collection of statistics and
figures which will simply be wasted
and thrown away unless this addl-
tional appropriation is made. The
matter to which | refer relates to
the Asiatic immigration on the west
ern coast, matter of the very great
est Importance. The material has all
been collected, and some $4,000 was
spent in field work relating to tie
Chinese, the Japanese, and the Hin.
docs. That will simply be wasted
and thrown away unless we can have
an opportunity to tabulate it and
put it into form. That is another of
the matters that will be lost.
Mr.. Dillingham;. That work has been
under the charge of Professor Mills
of Stanford University. of California,
and is one of the most exhaustive
Investigations | have known said
to the committee yesterday that the
material covering that subject, con-
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