made January 14, 1891, by a House committee. This report contains much information concerning the character and condition of immigrants and the effect of immigration on domestic labor, and also a compilation of the immigration laws of the United States and Italy; also statistics of inmates of prisons and eleemosynary institutions of the United States and of education in Europe. Another report on immigration and naturalization was made by a House committee July 28, 1892. The Senate Committee on Finance, in 1892, made a report (3 vols.) on retail prices and wages, and, in 1893, a report (4 vols.) on wholesale prices and wages for fifty-two years. The House Committee on Manufactures made a report January 20, 1893, on the sweating system. A select committee of the House on the Regulation of Commerce, Fiftieth Congress, second session, made a report on the importation of contract labor. As the results of special investigation, two reports, with testimony, on the labor troubles at Homestead, Pa., were issued by Congress, one by the House Judiciary Committee February 7, 1893, and the other by a Senate committee February 10, 1893. February 10, 1893, a committee of the Senate made a report on labor troubles and the employment of detectives. The committee of the House on Agriculture and Forestry made a report February 23, 1895, on the condition of the cotton growers in the United States, the present prices of cotton and the remedy, and on cotton consumption and production. Congress has also published a very elaborate report on the growth of industrial art, being an illustrated report prepared in the Patent Office.
Congress is also doing something in the way of historical contributions, for it has given a notable encouragement to historical work through its grant of articles of incorporation to the American Historical Association by an act approved January 4, 1889. As the result of this incorporation the annual reports of the association are printed at the Government Printing Office. These annual reports are of especial value, on account of the attention given to the bibliography of history and the notices of the work of historical societies throughout the country. Thus,
