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Show lor the corresponding period of last year.' The gain for the present year is occasioned by the heavy importation im-portation of aliens during jHly; August and September Septem-ber last before the authorities began investigating the schemes of the foreign steamship companies Tor booming travel to this Country. Since some of those corporations have been brought up with a round turn for violations' of the immigration laws there has been a decided falling off in the number of arriving aliens. . The so-called "undesirable" immigrants continue to make up the bulk of the new arrivals. During the month of April more than 50 per cent of the immigrants im-migrants were from the three countries that furnish ihe worst class of foreigners namely, Austrla-IIun-gary, Italy and Kussia. More than one-third of all the immigrants were from Italy alone, that country furnishing 34,249 additions to the population of the United States in April, while Austria contributed 13,689. A scant 8000 came from Russia. One of the cheerful signs is an increase in the immigration of Irish, women. There was a gain of several hundred hun-dred in immigrants of this, nationality at the different differ-ent ports id April. ; "Assisted" Immigration Checked. Tliere has been a marked falling off in immigra-tion immigra-tion to the United States during the past few months, and the officials at Washington are inclined to ascribe the fact to the efforts that have been made to break up "assisted immigration'' on the uart of foreign steamship companies. The decline in immigration during the mouth of April amounted to 25 per cent, comjmred with the corresponding month of last year. The difference in March, was not quite so large, but the falling off ' was decided. The foreigners reported from the different ports of entry during the month of April numbered 91,-3C8, 91,-3C8, against 120,286 for April, 11103. The alien arrivals ar-rivals in March of this year were 78,13C, as compared com-pared with 91,606 during March of last year. IIow-eyer, IIow-eyer, the- figures for the ten months of the current fiscal year exceed those of the first ten months of last year, when ell records for. Immigration to the United States were broken. The total immigration to date since July 1, 1903, is 638,770, against 620,711 i 4 |
