Smuggling across the border from Canada and Mexico continues to be a favorite method of evasion of the laws. A general statement of the situation is made in the following extract from the Report for 1903 of Commissioner-General of Immigration, F. P. Sargent, which includes extracts from the last Report of Commissioner for Canada, Robert Watchorn, on the year’s work done at Canadian ports and on the border. It should prove a revelation to those who believe our present system of controlling immigration is a success. This statement, covering the past seven fiscal years, will serve to show the steady increase in alien immigration to the United States through the ports of Canada: July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897 10,646 July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1898 10,737 July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1899 13,853 July 1, 1899, to June 30, 1900 23,200 July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1901 25,220 July 1, 1901, to June 30, 1902 29,199 July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1903 35,920 The foregoing figures, it should be remembered, refer to those only who are manifested on the lists furnished by transportation lines whose North American terminals are at Canadian seaports as destined to the United States. They do not include those aliens who subsequent to landing in the Dominion enter this country as residents of Canada. The number of such is doubtless considerable, but the Bureau has no data at its command to enable it to make even an approximately accurate computation thereof. The inspection of those referred to in the foregoing statement is made at the Canadian port of arrival in the same manner that aliens arriving at seaports of this country are examined. As to the operations of administrative officers in respect to those who seek admission after temporary residence in the Dominion the subjoined report of the United States commissioner of immigration at Montreal gives information that cannot fail to impress one with the magnitude and importance of the duties discharged under his supervision, as well as with the efficiency with which those duties are performed. FROM COMMISSIONER WATCHORN’S REPORT. 233 ST. ANTOINE STREET, _Montreal, Canada_. SIR: I have the honor to report for the fiscal year concerning immigration from Europe to the United States through Canada. Pursuant to the requirements of section 10 of Department Circular 97, dated November 1, 1901, monthly reports have been made to the Bureau on the prescribed forms; you are therefore already fully advised as to the numbers of aliens examined, admitted, or rejected, as the case may be. This report is intended to amplify the information furnished per regular forms.