Chairman. I want to disagree for a brief time with the facts as stated by the gentleman from Massachusetts . In the first place. the minority reportand I say this in justice to the gentleman from New York . who is absent. as well as to myself---did not attempt to draw any line between races as to which were the more desirable. but took the ground. which I stand on here. that persons who come here with large families and with the intention of staying and becoming American citizens do make the most desirable kind of immigrants. So much for that. The gentleman says there are a million coming in every year. I dissent from that idea. There were 1.026.000 paid the head tax in 1905. In addition to that there were a number who came in from Canada and Mexico. of whom no record was kept whatever. but on the steamers going the other way there were In the steerage 340.000 or 350.000. That is an approximate estimate only. but it is not far from right. That number has to be deducted from the million.
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