The Senator is substantially correct in what he is saying. but I would remind him that until the act of 1907 there was no law requiring the steamship companies to keep a record of the returning immigrants. The figures down to that time were based upon estimates. but it was thought that about onethird of the total number of immigrants returned. In the last two or three years records have been kept. and the number of returning immigrants has varied according to industrial conditions in this country. After the panic of 1907. 1 think there were more aliens leaving this country than there were admitted for a considerable length of time. but I presume the average which the Senator has stated is correct. that. taking it altogether. perhaps 40 per cent of them have returned.
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