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Show cause, of insanity or other menial conditions. Great Influx of People From the South of Italy Washington. April 23. According to present indications, Immigration t the United States for the fiscal year 1910 promises lo reach one million peoplo, if the record for the first nine months of tbe year !s maintained. Tho arrivals for March were 13G,74. and for the nine months of the fiscal year CC7.919. It has been several years since the Immigration figures reached the million mark, the last year being 1907. when 1,285,149 aliens were admitted ad-mitted to tbe United States. Of tho . immigrants who were admitted during dur-ing March, 110,207 were male and 26.-I 26.-I 53S were female. Of theso 8.400 wero ! German; 81.S0C were from the south of Italy; 2.203 were Polish, and 5.-P0C 5.-P0C were Greek. For the first ticven months of the fiscal yeor. that is from July la.5t to January Inclusive, 12,092 Immigrants wero debarred. Of these 209 were kept out because of Insanity or feeble mentality In some form; 1,055 because they had a loathsome or daugcrous I contagious disease; 7,768 because they were liable to become a public charge, and 659 because It was charged, they were contract laborer.!. The immigration laws provido that, for good cause, immigrants who have been lu Uils country for some time may be sent back. In that category, tho immigration bureau, for the seven mouths, returned t" the couutry whence tbey came, 422 persona be- |