... Colonel HOWARD VINCENT: I beg to ask the President
of the Board of Trade how many of the 21,337 aliens
arriving since 1st January at the eastern ports of
Great Britain, alleging that they were going to America,
have been refused a passage by the United States Consuls
at Liverpool, Southhampton, and Queenstown, or by the
Steamship Lines, on the ground of unfitness to enter
that Republic, or have been subsequently denied admission
by the board of Supervision in New York; and why those
thrown back on Great Britain as unworthy to take up their
abode in America are not accounted for in the Alien
Immigration Return for July, which cannot otherwise be
accurate?
MR.BRYCE: I have no information respecting the number
of foreign emigrants to the United States refused passage
or rejected during the current year; but in 1893 the number
of such emigrants sent back to the United Kingdom was only
99 out of 64,000 emigrants via United Kingdom, or about 1«
per 1,000, so that the accuracy of the Monthly Immigration
Return can hardly be at all affected by this cause. The hon.
Member will find full details on the subject in the
Immigration and Emigration Report for 1893, to which I have
just referred him, and he will also there find that the
number of emigrants sent back to the United Kingdom from
the United States was included in the year's Return of
immigration into the United Kingdom from non-European
countries.
Colonel HOWARD VINCENT: But the Board of Supervision
was only quite recently established in New York, and
since that time several hundreds have been rejected.
Mr. BRYCE: That Return if referred to will be found
to include those who were sent back. The Board of
Supervision has been established for some time.
Mr. TOMLINSON (Preston): Does the return include
those who were not allowed to land, or only those who
were landed and sent back?
Mr. BRYCE: Our information is obtained from the
Steamboat Companies, and, therefore, includes both
classes.
