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England and Wales -------------------------Ireland ---------------------------------------Scotland ------------------------------------Not specified ..............--------------_Total Europe -------------------"--...... Mexico --------------------------------------Central America -----_---------------------Cuba ------------------------------- -_- ------Other West Indies --------------------.-----British North American Possessions -------South America ------------------------------China ----------------------------------------Japau . . . . . ..------------------------------e r A s ia ---- - ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Australia ------------.----------------------Hawaiian Islands ---------------------------Other Oceanica --------------------------_ Africa ---------------------------------------Not specified .................................. Giand total ............................. 6.147 14. 700 17.791 1.709 5.003 8.080 53.989 1.356 42.977 1.820 9.111 2.196" 36.725 2.553 1.941 18.286 2. 905 18.748 30. 231 8.772 277.052 2.601 1.170 1.931 1.589 285.631 6.297 15.206 11.898 1.058 3.910 2.628 32.173 35.427 1.388 7.581 1.452 33.232 2. 675 15.361 2.239 25.045 46.304 3. 788 250.342 2.532 51C4 1.150 258.530 In- Decrease. crease. 6.297 16.073 5. 893 1.093 21.816 7. 550 4:32 1.530 3.493 2.925 23.164 49.874 7 ....... -- - - - 12 45 -----1.217 ...... --- - - 106 8 ........ 12 ....... 24.453 51.5" From the foregoing tables it appears that during the last fiscal year 258.536 immigrants arrived in this country. Of these. 256.117 were landed and 2.419 were debarred and deported at the expense MAY- 14. -1 -1 of the various steamship lines transporting them. Of those deported. 694 were under contract to perform labor in this country made previous to their arrival and 1.725 were deported as coming within the prohibitions of the act of March 3. 1891. . In addition to the above. 177 immigrants who had been landed were returned to the countries whence they came. having become public charges within one year after their arrival in the United States. The latter were returned at the expense of the steamship lines bringing them if the cause of their having become. public charges existed prior to landing. otherwise at the expense of the immigrant fund. . It is gratifying. says the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. to be able to say thatWe know of no immigrant landed within a year who is now- a burden upon any public or private institution. The class of immigrants has been of a good. healthy. and hardy character. well qualified to earn a livelihood wherever their services were required. They comprised both skilled and unskilled laborers. Now let us see in this last importation of 1895 how poor they were and how many paupers there were because of their illiteracy: The money we know they actually brought with them amounted to $1.126.723. but as the immigrant is only required to satisfy the inspector as to the amount when under $30. he is not required to disclose any above that amount. yet with some it is reasonable to suppose that the money actually brought very much exceeds that reported. as in many instances they bring comparatively large sums to invest in small business enterprises or to purchase lands and build homes for their families in the New World. Experience shows that this amount could be safely multiplied three or four times. Multiply. therefore. the four millions. as ascertained that they actually brought. by four. and we find that instead of bringing four millions they brought sixteen and a half millions. Of the 152.000 immigrants arriving at the port of New York during the six months ended June 30. 1892. more than $3.060.000 was brought in. one man bringing with him $25.000 and another $10.000. Multiply these as stated by CommissionerGeneral Stump and we have nearly twelve and onehalf millions in 1892. An incident showing the amount of money brought to this country by aliens was disclosed at Ellis Island when upon searching an immigrant it was ascertained that he had more than $10.000 in his possession. although at the time of preliminary inspection he had informed the officers that he had no money whatever. The junior Senator from Massachusetts . arguing from the report of the committee. claims that the immigrants who would have been shut out by the illiteracy test are those who bring less money to the country and come most quickly upon public or pri-" rate charity for support. And yet the class of immigrants coming in within the two years referred to. though largely illiterate. added to the material wealth of the United States twentyeight and onehalf millions. *In summarizing the results of the committees investigations. which have been fully set forth in their report. as referred to by the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts. it is found that he claims that the illiteracy test will bear most heavily upon the Italians. Russians. Poles. Hungarians. Greeks. and Asiatics. These are the immigrants the educational test will keep out. while the consularinspection bill could not keep them out. whereas. judging from a letter addressed to me. under date of April 16.1896. the American AntiSemitic Association. Brooklyn. N.