Col A: Year Col B: Immigrants Col C: Idiots Col D: Insane persons Col E: Paupers, or likely to become public charges Col F: Loathsome or dangerous or contagious diseases Col G: Convicts Col H: Assisted Immigrants Col I: Contract laborers Col J: Total Debarred Col K: Percentage of whole A B C D E F G H I J K ----+---------+--+---+-----+-----+----+----+------+------+------+ 1892| 579,663| 4|17 |1,002| 80| 26 | 23 | 932 | 2,164| 0.4 1893| 439,730| 3| 8 | 431| 81| 12 | .. | 518 | 1,053| 0.2 1894| 285,631| 4| 5 | 802| 15| 8 | .. | 553 | 1,389| 0.5 1895| 258,536| 6|.. |1,714| ..| 4 | 1 | 694 | 2,419| 0.9 1896| 343,267| 1|10 |2,010| 2| .. | .. | 776 | 2,799| 0.8 1897| 230,832| 1| 6 |1,277| 1| 1 | 3 | 328 | 1,617| 0.7 1898| 229,299| 1|12 |2,261| 258| 2 | 79 | 417 | 3,030| 1.3 1899| 311,715| 1|19 |2,599| 348| 8 | 82 | 741 | 3,798| 1.2 1900| 448,572| 1|32 |2,974| 393| 4 | 2 | 833 | 4,246| 1.0 1901| 487,918| 6|16 |2,798| 309| 7 | 50 | 327 | 3,516| 0.7 1902| 648,743| 7|27 |3,944| 709| 9 | .. | 275 | 4,974| 0.8 1903| 857,046| 1|23 |5,812|1,773| 51 | 9 |1,086 | 8,769| 1.0 1904| 812,870|16|33 |4,798|1,560| 35 | 38 |1,501 | 7,994| 1.0 1905|1,026,499|38|92 |7,898|2,198| 39 | 19 |1,164 |11,480| 1.2 ----+---------+--+---+-----+-----+----+----+------+------+-----+ Total debarred in the fourteen years, 59,248. [Sidenote: Right of Appeal] The debarred have the right of appeal, from the Special Inquiry Board which excludes them, to the Commissioner of the Port, then to the Commissioner-General, and finally to the Secretary[26] of Commerce and Labor. The steamship lines that brought them have to pay costs of detention and deportation, which is one means of making these lines careful. [Sidenote: Exclusion by Races] A second table, which shows the exclusion by races, will repay study. It is given in Appendix A. It not only shows where the bulk of the excluded belong, but reveals not a little concerning the character of those admitted who come from the same races. The intention of the present Commissioner-General is to enforce the laws strictly, yet in a humane spirit. Comparing the figures for the two years 1903-1904, he says: [Sidenote: Increase of Undesirable] "The most significant feature of this statement is the large increase in the number of idiots, insane persons, and paupers during 1905, which, coupled with an increase of twenty-five per cent. in the number of diseased aliens, justifies the Bureau in directing attention to the flagrant and wilful disregard by the ocean carriers of the laws for the regulation of their business of securing alien passengers destined for the United States."[27] [Sidenote: Fraud of Transportation Companies]