CONTENTS 
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9. Bureau of Information of the Federal Government . 325 
10. Division of Information 328 
XVII—ASSIMILATION AND PROGRESS 
1. Progress of Assimilation Slow 330 
Benefits from Ideas of Immigrants .... 330 
Desirable to Exclude Those Who Can Not Be 
Assimilated 331 
2. Changes in Bodily Form 332 
Shape of Skull 332 
Results of Investigations 333 
3. Industrial Progress and Efficiency 335 
4. Naturalization and Interest in Public Affairs . . . 336 
5. Citizenship and the 1920 Census 339 
6. Investments 339 
Immigrant Property Holdings 342 
Ownership of Homes 345 
7. School Attendance and Progress 348 
Ability to Speak English 360 
8. Summary Conclusions 363 
XVIII—LEGISLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 
L The “Native-American” or “Know Nothing” Move 
ments 366 
2. State Legislation Abandoned 371 
3. State Control Declared Unconstitutional .... 372 
4. Control by the Federal Government 375 
The Law of 1882 375 
The Investigations of 1892 378 
The Immigration Law of 1907 380 
5. Legislation for the Suppression of the White-Slave 
Traffic 383 
6. The Dillingham-Burnctt Bill 384 
7. The Second Dillingham Bill 384 
8. Chinese Immigration Laws and Treaties .... 389 
9. The Chinese Exclusion Law of 1902 394 
10. The Chinese Exclusion Law of 1904 395 
11. Legislation Relative to Japanese Laborers .... 396 
12. The California Alien Land-Holding Legislation . . 397 
13. The Administration of the Law 398 
Inspection on Land Borders 400 
Difficulties of Administration . . . . . . 401