Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-10

4 Europe. This Was vast lnnu1s as VIII
be seen, OF new and OF untried races.
With the Increase in the business indus
/ try OF the country within the last twenty
years, this current OF new immigration
| has gone into the coal mines; il has gone
/ into the wooden and cotton industries; Il
has gone into agriculture; it has gone
along all the lines OF industry, and has
| found employment. The commission has
/ been making a very exhaustive study in
more than one hundred selected localities
to show what effect the coming OF those
immigrants has had upon the community
and upon the individual American, and,
on the other hand, what effect the Ameri-
can has been having on the immigrant.
We have, Mr.. President, already in the
process Of preparation, and very nearly
ready to be presented, most exhaustive
study Of the bituminous coal industry in
this country, and call the Senator's at
tention to two or three facts that show the
character OF it. we find that the num-
Der Of tons OF bituminous coat produced
in PennsylgEnis 10 1SS5--so recent a date
as that-wss 23,4l3,0a0 in round mum
bers, While in 1907 it was 149, $50, 600, or
an Increase OF $50 per cent.
We have gone not only to Pennsylva-
MIA, bat to other sections OF the country
as well, and have made a most exhaustive
examination OF the immigrant Of the new
type, who hiss been employed in that in
dustty. tie has been examined from every
pciut Of view; aud report which will
probably make volume Of five or six
hundred pages will be presented showing
just precisely how he Is behaving, ho \ he
IS living, whether be is prospering, what
influence he is exerting upon the com
muHity, aud what influence the commun-
ity Is hsying upon him. In snort, how
and to what extent the work Of assimila-
tion ID going on. II is very exhaustive
aud a very valuable report. Without this
appropriation no more reports OF that
kind can be made.
Ia addition TO this, we have material
covering the wooden industry, the cotton
industry, the glass industry, the boot and
shoe Industry, aud several other of the
great industries Of the country, In regard
to which much study has been given, in
which industries different nationailties
have been employed.
This amendment, the Senator will OBJ
serve, provides that no furth salaries shall
be paid to the commissioners, and no new
field work shall be undertaken. The COM
mission is asking for the appropriation
simply that the work on the material al
ready on hand, which is partly prepared
and partly tabulated, may be completed,
and that reports covering the entire field
OF tue Investigation may be prepared and
presented to Congress by the LIST OF De-
csmbsr next.
Mr.. Lodge. Mr.. President, may inter
rupt the Senator for a moment?
Mr.. Dillingham;. Certainly.
Mr.. Lodge. The Senator from Yer
mont omitted, 1 think, to mention one
great collection Of statistics and figures
which will simply be wasted and thrown
away unless this additional appropriation
is made. The matter to which refer re-
lates to the Asiatic immigration on the
western coast, a matter OF the very great
est importance. The material has all been
aud some t4O,0 was spent in
field work relating to the Chinese, the
Japanese, and the Hindoos. That will
simply be wasted and throw away unless
we can have an opportunity to tabulate II
and put It into form. That lis another OF
the matters that will be lost.
Mr.. Dillingham;. That work has been
under tine 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, consisting OF individual and fam.
lily cards, containing the most vital and
minute information, that was shipped
from San Francisco to Washington
weighed ton. That shows something
OF the exhaustive character Of that inves-
tigation, and may add that it covers not
only California but all the Rocky Noun
tain States from Idaho through to Ari-
iona. IL will bring together a mass of
Information in which, | think, other de-
partments OF our government will be
very much interested in the future,
Mr.. Stone. Mr.. President
The Presiding Officer. Does the Sena-
tor from Vermont yield to the Senator
from Missouri
Mr.. Dillingham;. am very glad to.
Mr.. Stone. / have listened with pleas
ure to the very interesting statement Of the
Senator from Vermont; and should like
to ask him question. This commission
has been in existence some three years7
Mr.. Dillingham;. It was organized in
the spring Of 1907. Some work was done
in Europe that summer, and during the
next winter the scope and the extent of
the inquiry we're determined upon and
plans for the field work adopted. It was
begun on the LIST day OF July, 1908, and
was substantially completed on the ist of
July, 1909.
Mr.. Stone. The expenses incurred bv
the commission under the act authorizing
its creation we're to BE- paid out OF the inn
migration fund ?
Mr.. Stone. And the Senator saws that
that fund became exhausted, SO that il
became necessary
Mr.. Lodge. No.
Mr.. Dillingham;. No. It did not be.
come exhausted, but the fund was ahol-
ished by legislation, and the receiuts
from that source were turned into the
general fund OF the United States Treas-
ury. So It became necessary to have an
propriated by Congress whatever sums
that might be necessary to complete the
work.
Mr.. Stone. The fund ceased TO he
available, at all events.