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I think I can briefly answer the question of the Senator from Georgia. We have already submitted reports to Congress on the whiteslave traffic. on steerage conditions. on physical assimilation of the immigrant. on congestion in the large cities of the country. and also upon the occupations of immigrants and their children. Those reports are all in. We have reports in process of preparation. which will probably be completed before the 4th of March. upon several other subjectsthe immigrant in agriculture. the relative fecundity of immigrants and their children. the investigations in Europe. and the medical examination abroad. We have a report on the immigrant aid societies that will probably be prgsented this week. another on alien criminality. of great interest and great value. and a very exhaustive report on the imnigration situation in Canada. which. in contrast to ours. is not only interesting. but very important. We have also a dictionary of the immigrant races. a very complete volume for reference. the history of European immigration in the United States. covering the whole iPeriod and written in popular form. a review of the immigration legislation of the country from the beginning. and legislation regulating the carriage of passengers at sea. That is a subject which we haie already actd upon in a bill passed last winter. Another report will be presented on immigrants banks. The unfinished work to which the Senator refers covers some of the large industries of the country. When it is prepared and presented it will give a picture. I think. representing almost the exact status of the inmmigration of the last twenty or thirty years. which is of a class entirely different. new. and distinct from the immigration which came to this country prior to 1887. I have in my hand a chart. which perhaps the Senator can see from his place lexhibiting]. The (lark portion of thatchart represents the immigration from 1882 to 1909 of those coming from northern and western Europe. England. Ireland. Scotland. Wales. and the western part of Europe. and the lighter portion of the chart shows how the Immigration from southern and eastern Europe has been constantly increasing. I think I have here the statistics that will show what that change has been anl how vitally it affects us as a Nationi. Down to 1882 the immigration from northern and western Europethat is to say. from Great Britain. Ireland. Germany.