Every
female alien must have $15.
[36] The Bill, as amended, left the head tax at $2, and the reading test
was omitted. Great opposition to the Bill came from the foreign element,
especially the Jews.
[37] Dr. Goodchild.
[38] Broughton Brandenburg, _Imported Americans_, 302.
[39] _Outlook_ for May 5, 1906.
[40] J. D. Whelpley, _The Problem of the Immigrant_, 13.
[41] _Annual Report for_ 1903, p. 60.
[42] _Annual Report for_ 1905, p. 58.
[43] Idem, opposite p. 34.
[44] This bureau shall collect and furnish to all incoming aliens, data
as to the resources, products, and manufactures of each state, territory
and district of the United States; the prices of land and character of
soils; routes of travel and fares; opportunities of employment in the
skilled and unskilled occupations, rates of wages, cost of living, and
all other information that in the judgment of the Commissioner-General
might tend to enlighten the aliens as to the inducements to settlement
in the various sections.
[45] Bernheimer, _The Russian Jew in the United States_, 370.
[46] Prescott F. Hall, _Immigration_, 303.
[47] Eliot Lord, in _The Italian in America_, 177 ff.
[48] "The Problem of Immigration," Presbyterian Board of Publication.
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