upon wages and at the same time improve the social and economic condition of the immigrants.

The Commissioners have also been directed to secure and report such information, from all available sources, as will enable the Department to employ its official force in the most effective manner for the enforcement of the immigration and contractlabor laws according to their true intent and purpose, and to suggest such amendments as experience may have shown to be necessary in order to adapt them to existing conditions.

This investigation is now in progress and has already resulted in the accumulation of a vast amount of documentary information and recommendations, which a e being sifted. The Commissioners are also visiting various sections of the country for the purpose of personally receiving the benefit of the practical knowledge of local heads of trades organizations. It is anticipated that these efforts will lead to important amendments to the laws and regulations, so that the sifting process, by which only desirable immigrants shall be admitted and all the undesirable classes shall be utterly excluded, will be perfected in all its workings. Certainly no criticism can be made that the present officers of the Immigration Service are in anywise lacking in zeal, energy, or capacity, in dealing with this complex subject. On the other hand, their efforts are being daily supplemented by the assistance of intelligent and appreciative workmen throughout the whole United States, whose cooperation has been sought. The Democratic party has every reason to congratulate itself upon the successful efforts of its appointees to regulate immigration in accordance with the best interests of the whole people and without unworthy discrimina

COMPARISON OF RATES

Of Duties between the McKinley Act and the New Tariff Law.

Comparison of rates of duties between McKinley act and new law.-Continued.

..lbs...

.Ibs...

.lbs...

SCHEDULE A-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND
PAINTS-Continued.

In finished or partly finished
articles

.....lbs...
Rolled or in sheets, but not made
up into articles..... ...lbs...
Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or
other liquors......
Barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds,

bulbs, and bulbous roots, and ex-
crescences, such as nutgalls, fruits,
flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums,
and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lich-
ens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems,
spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic,
not garden seeds), and seeds of mor-
bid growth,woods used expressly for
dyeing, and dried insects, any of
the foregoing which are not edible,
but which have been advanced in
value or condition by refining or
grinding or by other process of
manufacture........

Ethers:

Sulphuric..

Nitrous, spirits of (no data).
Of all kinds, not specially pro-
vided for......

Fruit ethers, oils, or essences.lbs...
Logwood and other dyewoods, ex-

tracts and decoctions of...........lbs... % c. per lb.....

Bark for dyeing or tanning,extracts of

Other than hemlock, not spec

ially provided for..............lbs... % c. per lb..... 10 per cent......

Fish glue or isinglass:

Valued at not above 7 cents per

pound...

...lbs... 1% c. per lb... 25 per cent......

Valued at above 7 cents and not
above 30 cents per pound...lbs... 25 per cent......
Valued at above 30 cents per

pound.

..lbs... 30 per cent......

Gelatín:

Comparison of rates of duties between McKinley act and new law.-Continued.

Blanc fixe, or satin white or arti

ficial sulphate of barytes...lbs... 4 c. per lb..... 25 per cent..... 47.54

Comparison of rates of duties between McKinley act and new law.-Continued.

All other, including gold size or
Japan,......

..........galls... 35 per cent.

or

Vermilion red, and colors con-
taining quicksilver, dry
ground in oil or water........lbs... 12 cts. per lb... 20 per cent
Vermilion red, not containing
quicksilver, but made of lead,
etc..

Wash blue containing ultrama-
rine....

Whiting and Paris white-
Dry

25 per cent......

6 cents per lb..

25

..lbs... 3 cents per lb..

3 cents per lb..

.lbs...cent per lb..

4 cent per lb..
cent per lb..

Ground in oil (putty)... ...lbs... 1 cent per lb... Zinc, oxide of, and white paint containing zinc, but not containing lead

Dry

Ground in oil.....

All other paints and colors-
Dry or mixed, or ground in
water or oil, including lakes,
not specially provided for.
and artists' colors of all kinds,
in tubes or otherwise.....
Mixed or ground with water or
solutions other than oil, and
commercially known as art-
ists' water-color paints.......

Crayons

Smalts and frostings...
Brown-

Spanish, Indian red, and colco-
thar or oxide of iron..
Vandyke, Cassel earth, or Cas-
sel brown....

Paris green and London purple (no data)...