Speech #620139495

I was furnished this morning with the figures of the immigration from the West Indies alone. without counting any negroes who might possibly have come from elsewhere. and what has deceived the Senator from New York is that in the West Indies they do not count anyone a negro unless he be of pure negro blood. People of mixed races who are counted here as negroes are not there thus regarded. When they come in they may report themselves as white. because they have white blood in their veins. but these figures sent to me by the department this morning show that there has been during the period of five years19071911a total of 64.404. and nearly all of them were of mixed or Indian blood.