Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration to the Secretary of Labor for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1913 Department OF labor, bureau OF immigration, Washington, July 1, 1913. Sir: On the date of this report, July 1, 1913, I have occupied the osition of Commissioner General of Immigration for one month only. Uring 11 months of the fiscal year covered Hon. Daniel J. Keefe was the incumbent of said office. It was my intention to ask Mr. Keefe either to sign this report jointly with me or himself make a separate report covering the period of his incumbency; but before the text could be prepared Mr. Keefe had left the United States for an extended tour in the Orient and Europe. The best I can do under the circumstances is to call attention to the fact that most of the work mentioned and accomplishments shown were done and attained during his able and effective administration, and to give place herein to some of the views heretofore expressed by him regarding important phases of the enforcement of the several laws under which the. Bureau and service Operate. In this connection there is inserted as Appendix IV (pp. 257 - 260, post) a statement made by him when retiring from office, to which attention is directed for his views on the subjects treated therein. During the past fiscal year immigration to the United States, amounting to aliens, has been much larger than in any fiscal year since 1907, and has been less than that shown for said year, the total for which was by only and exceeded that for the fiscal ear 1912 by and the average per year from 1908 to 1912 by When it is remembered that during a considerable portion of the year a war was in progress in which a very large percentage of the able-bodied men of Turkey and'the Balkan States were engaged, the number of immigrants entering this country seems the more remarkable. The year's net increase in population from immigration is as compared with a net increase for the preceding year of and for 1911 of The aliens have not only come, but have remained in larger numbers than heretofore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.