I have two other amendments to suggest, but I shall not offer any argument upon them, as they are self-explanatory. They are as follows: "Section 13, page 13, line 18, after the word 'cause,' add the following: Provided, That if the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied in the case of representatives of foreign governments or distinguished foreign visitors, or of other first-class ocean travelers, that the answers to all of the questions required by this section and the personal and physical examinations required by sections fourteen and fifteen are unnecessary to prevent the entry into the United States of the classes of aliens excluded by law the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe by regulation a modified form of manifest for such passengers.'

"Section 19, page 17, line 9, insert after the word 'shall' the words 'either knowingly or negligently.""

I thank you, gentlemen, for your attention.

Senator FAIRBANKS. Mr. Anderson, there has been something said about the diversion of immigration to the Canadian ports. Do you know whether the diversion has been upon the increase or not?

Mr. ANDERSON. It was on the increase until September of last year, when the Secretary of the Treasury organized a force and put efficient men at the head of it. He has been trying his very best, and with excellent results, to check it, and it has been checked since that time. It has not been altogether stopped, but they are doing their best to check it.

Representative SHATTUC. May I ask Mr. Anderson a question?
The CHAIRMAN. Certainly.

Representative SHATTUC. Mr. Anderson, you are the traffic manager of the International Navigation Company?

Mr. ANDERSON. I have charge of the passenger department of the International Navigation Company.

Representative SHATTUC. The head tax is now $1. Do you pay that

tax?

Mr. ANDERSON. We pay it.

Representative SHATTUC. That is included in your rate?

Mr. ANDERSON. It is, of course, taken out of the money we get from an alien.

Representative SHATTUC. I understand it, of course, but I asked the question so that gentlemen here might understand it.

Mr. ANDERSON. The position is simply this. Before the head tax was established we had a certain rate. When the head tax was placed upon the admission of aliens that rate was not raised. Because of the competition with the Canadian lines we were unable to do it. They would not agree to it. They said "this advantage we have, and we are going to keep it."

Senator MASON. The Canadian vessel does not have to pay

it?

Mr. ANDERSON. No, sir; only by agreement with the government they pay a portion of it. Then they pay for the people who are booked to the United States; but it is voluntary on their part.

Representative SHATTUC. If this increase in the tax is made above $1.50, as it is fixed in the bill as passed by the House, can you increase your rates as against the Canadian lines?

Mr. ANDERSON. No, sir.

Representative SHATTUC. Now, another question. Under the bill as amended by the Senate you have two classes of persons coming over here. Under that bill you are to charge a head tax on alien immigrants and all the others come in free. Will you have two different rates on your steamers?

Mr. ANDERSON. For the third-class passengers, do you mean?

Representative SHATTUC. For one class?

Mr. ANDERSON. No, sir.

Representative SHATTUC. You will not have?

Mr. ANDERSON. No, sir.

Representative SHATTUC. Then the people themselves in whose favor the Government undertakes to discriminate would not get any benefit from it?

Mr. ANDERSON. No, sir.

Representative SHATTUC. That is all.

Mr. ANDERSON. That is to say, the company pays the bill.

Representative SHATTUC. So that under this amended bill, where the Senator from Ohio offered an amendment letting in free all other than alien immigrants, they would not come in free.

Mr. ANDERSON. But they would not pay any more. pays the tax.

Representative SHATTUC. They would pay no less?

Neither class

Mr. ANDERSON. They would pay no more and they would not pay any less.

Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. I should like to ask Mr. Anderson a question. What effort did you make to get the Canadian lines to agree with you to raise the rate to the extent of the $1 tax?

Mr. ANDERSON. We made every effort that it was possible to make. Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. To get them to raise the rate to the extent of the head tax?

Mr. ANDERSON. I will say frankly if we could get them to do it we would make no objection to any tax you might place on the business, if you needed the money.

Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. When your steamship brings in these men, your ship has to pay the head tax of all the alien immigrants?

Mr. ANDERSON. Yes, sir.

Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. And the Canadian steamship, not having to pay, has that much advantage of your steamship? Mr. ANDERSON. Yes, sir.

Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. And you endeavored to get them to go into an agreement with you by which they would raise to the same extent that you did?

Mr. ANDERSON. Yes.

Senator MCLAURIN, of Mississippi. That is, to the extent of the head tax required to be paid by your transportation line for these alien immigrants?

Mr. ANDERSON. That is right.

Mr. FULLER. Representing the railroad employees, I wish to ask Mr. Anderson one question. I notice that he did not mention the figures for 1902 with regard to the increase or decrease of immigration. I wish to ask him whether it is not a fact that immigration has been on the increase in 1902 over 1901?

Mr. ANDERSON. The figures are plain, and they certainly show quite an increase. The reason why I did not take the figures for 1902 was because the Commissioner-General's report came out too late to allow me to analyze those figures. I was too busy, and I had analyzed the previous figures before.

EXPENDITURES OF IMMIGRATION BUREAU.

The CHAIRMAN. I have here a statement officially sent from the Immigration Bureau showing the need of a $3 head tax, which I will ask to have put in the hearing.

The statement referred to is as follows:

[No. 15364.]

Hon. BOIES PENROSE,

U.S. IMMIGRATION SERVICE,
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER,

New York, N. Y., December 10, 1902.

Chairman Senate Committee on Immigration.

SIR: Pursuant to your request, I send you a rough statement of amounts which it will in all probability be necessary for the Immigration Bureau to expend during the coming year if the service is to be at all efficient. It has been in the past supported from two sources: (1) The fund arising out of the head tax, and (2) a special annual appropriation entitled "Enforcement of the alien contract labor law," amounting last year to about $150,000. Since this contract-labor expenditure is intimately connected with immigration, there is no reason why it should not, like other immigration expenses, be borne by the head-tax fund.

The Ellis Island buildings were paid for by a special appropriation, but Congress has directed (acts of July 1, 1898, and March 3, 1899) that the amount thereof be borne eventually by the head-tax fund, through an annual charge of $50,000 until the amount of such special appropriation has been repaid. You will see from what follows that large additional sums must be spent on permanent improvements at Ellis Island, also at Boston, and there is no reason why the same should not eventually also be paid out of the proceeds of the head tax. For obvious reasons the immigration service should be self-supporting.

The estimated expenses for 1903, exclusive of additional improvements, are as follows:

1. Running expenses at Ellis Island (exclusive of cost of administering contract-labor law).

2. Ditto as to remaining immigrant stations. 3. Enforcement alien contract-labor law

4. Guarding Canadian and Mexican borders.

5. At Porto Rico...

6. Points not covered by the above, bureau, etc.

7. Annual repayment Ellis Island improvement fund

8. Repayment improvements and alterations authorized July 1, 1902

Total.

The actual cost of running Ellis Island last year, exclusive of enforcement of alien contract-labor law, was about $315,000. I have set it down this year as $350,000. There is not the slightest question but that the larger sum will be needed. The laws are now being enforced in the spirit in which I conceive that they were drawn, and, as an incident, an increase in the force has been found absolutely necessary. Furthermore, until the new quarters (hereinafter specifically referred to) are provided it will be necessary for the Government, at a total cost of at least $15,000, to hire a boat to be tied to our wharf, with sleeping accommodations for about 700 immigrants. The detention rooms for excluded immigrants are shockingly inadequate if the law is to be enforced, and, furthermore, the regular dormitories have a capacity for only 1,300, whereas one night last May 1,900 immigrants had to be housed in this building. I can not put these matters too strongly.

The estimated cost of additional permanent improvements for which there is an immediate and imperative need is as follows:

1. Extension Ellis Island main building, as per plans of Supervising Architect....

2. Construction new island for contagious diseases (the city declining to longer receive same)........

$300,000

3. New contagious disease hospital building on sane.

4. Extension old hospital...

5. New ferryboat (present boat is chartered, and both unfit and inadequate). 6. Tug, for boarding incoming vessels

7. Landing station at Boston

Total

150,000 100, 000 75,000 100, 000 40,000 500,000

1, 265, 000

A $3 head tax would, on the basis of 600,000 aliens, yield $1,800,000. The total above-recited expenditures, including improvements, is shown to be $2,411,125. The permanent improvements will, of course, not recur annually, but the proceeds of a $3 head tax will for at least two years be necessary to pay for such improvements, together with the current running expenses for both years at $1,146,125 per annum. Besides, $300,000 is a very small figure to allow for the proper protection of the Mexican and Canadian borders, and there are several stations other than New York and Boston where permanent improvements are, or eventually will be, needed. Finally, if by any chance we should have the good fortune of witnessing a decrease in immigration during the next two years, it goes without saying that the greater head tax will in that case be a necessity, for there will be no proportionate decrease in the expenses of carrying on the service.

The CHAIRMAN. I also have here a list of all petitions sent to the Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, from organized bodies, with the exception of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and Daughters of Liberty, praying for the restriction of immigration by an educational test, which I will have put in the hearing.

The list referred to is as follows:

Petitions sent to Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, for restriction of immigration by an educational test (excepting petitions by Junior Order United American Mechanics and Daughters of Liberty).

United States.

Operative Plasterers' International Association.

ALABAMA.

Birmingham-Birmingham Divison, No. 186, Order of Railway Conductors; Birmingham Lodge, No 590, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers No. 306; Great Southern Division, No. 436, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

Mobile-Gulf City Division, No. 140, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi

neers.

Montgomery-Birmingham Railway Conductors' Lodge, No. 98; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Alabama Lodge, No. 61; Brotherhood of Trainmen, Alabama Lodge, No. 161; Locomotive Engineers' Division No. 106; Locomotive Engineers' Division No. 436; Locomotive Engineers' Divison No. 140; Order of Railway Conductors, Division No. 96; Railway Conductors, Division No. 186; Railroad Trainmen, Lodge No. 590.

Selma-Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; Locomotive Engineers' Lodge No. 223.

Tuscaloosa-Locomotive Engineers' Lodge No. 450.

Tuscumbia-Railroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 411; Spring Park Lodge,

No. 411.

ARIZONA.

Tucson-Dewey Lodge, No. 460; San Xavier Division, No. 313, Order of Railway Conductors.

Winslow Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

ARKANSAS.

Fort Smith-Leather Workers on Horse Goods, Local Union No. 35; Lodge No. 112, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

Jonesboro-Division No. 442, Locomotive Engineers; Jonesboro Division, No. 332, Order of Railway Conductors; W. H. De Fiance Lodge, No. 358; Wood Workers' Local Union, No. 189.

Little Rock-Barbers' Local Union No. 197; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division No. 182; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Big Rock Lodge, No. 49; Coopers' Local Union, No. 44; Locomotive Engineers, Division No. 182; Locomotive Engineers, Division No. 554. Pine Bluff-Locomotive Engineers, Division 216; Order of Railway Conductors, Cotton Belt Division.

Texarkana-Order of Railway Conductors, Adams Division, No. 59; Switchmen's Local Union, No. 147; Typographical Union, No. 313.

CALIFORNIA.

Alameda-Carpenters' Union, No. 194; Carpenters' Local Union. Alameda County-Federated Trades' Council, American Federation of Labor.

Bakersfield-Journeymen Barbers' Local Union, No. 317.

Benicia Leather Workers' Local Union, No. 17, American Federation of Labor.

Bodie-Miners' Local Union, No. 61.

Dunsmuir-Lodge No. 458, Brotherhood of Railroad Traimen.

East Yard-Local Union No. 642, American Federation of Labor. French Gulch-Miners' Local Union, No. 141.

Fresno-Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division No. 553; Butchers' Local Union, No. 126, American Federation of Labor; Federated Trades and Labor Council, American Federation of Labor; Locomotive Engineers, Castle Crag Lodge, No. 458, Division No. 553; Lodge No. 420, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Plasterers' Local Union, No. 188.

Grass Valley-Miners' Local Union, No. 90.

Kern-Boiler Makers' Local Union, No. 253, American Federation of

Labor.

Los Angeles-Beer Bottlers' Local Union, No. 102; Cement Workers' Local Union, No. 8917, American Federation of Labor; Chamber of