Mr. President. consider the class of uneducated who came into our ports in the year 1895. Since the passage of this act of Congress referred to there has been a marked decrease in the amount of immigration to this country. Immigration for the fiscal year 189394 amounted to 285.631. and for the fiscal year 189495 to 258.536. a decrease of 27.095. thus showing the smallest immigration since 1879. Nearly a quarter of the Italian immigrants who have arrived at the port of New York lately have been debarred admittance to the country. Commissioner Senner says the wholesale detentions are having a deterrent effect on Italian immigration. As an instance of this. he says the steamship Hesperia. which has a capacity for 1.500 immigrants. is bringing only 200 to this port. I ask. Mr. President. to have made a part of my remarks Table No. 7 of the report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. by which it appears that. owing to our healthful laws. immigration has decreased from the countries usually furnishing the greatest number of immigrants. TABLE No. 7.-Showing the increase and decrease. by nationalities. of innigrants arrived during the fiscal years ended June so. 1894 and 1895. Countries of nativity.
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