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[ h S3, ,456,783 n value; of the product of ani- mals, Si9,952,278; and of cotton manufac- lures, S1 ,692 ,0l0; of all of which articles Texas, as the table shows, Is a very large consumer.
 From the official treasury report of lS40, give the table N 6, for the year commence ing the lst of October, 1898, and closing on the 30th of September. 1889, showing our commerce that year with Texas, and all the other nations of the world. This shows that the total of our exports of domestic produce to Texas that year, was $l,379,065, and the total of all our exports 10 Texas that year, ] < 1,687 082; that the imports the same year from Texas were ISIS, l16, leaving an excess ill our favor, of exports over imports, of ! S1.36S,966. Thus the extraordinary fact Is exhibited, that in the very infancy of her eX- istence, the balance of trade in our favor with Texas, exceeded that of each of all the foreign countries of the world-tJc0 0Hfy O. copied; and these two were colonies of an empire, our trade 10 the whole of which pre- sented balance of several millions against LIS. Texas then, that year, furnished a larger balance of exports over imports in our favor, than any other one of He empireSa of Inc rorH. The totality of otr exports that year to Texas was greater than to fther Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, 1 Italy, Sicily, or China. It was greater also than to each of ifty-six of the sixty-six enumerated countries of the world. It was greater also than the aggregate of all our eX- ports to Spain, Prussia, Denmark, Italy, Swe- den, and Norway, Portugal, New Grenada, l Australasia, French Guiana, Sardinia, Mo- rocco, and Barbary States, and Peru, com bined
 By table No. 6, it appears that the exports of our domestic products in 1889 to Texas were-of the fisheries, s543,426; of the pro- ducts of the forest, S157,474; of the pro- ducts of agriculture, S205,860; and of our manufactures, S029,071. Now, by table N O.. 6 of the treasury report, the total exports, the same year, of the products of the fisheries to all the world, except Texas, was $1,864, ,543; and consequently the exports of the products of the fisheries to Texas, that year, amounted to about 255 per cent. of those exports to all the rest of the world. The exports of the products of the forest, that year, to all other countries, except Texas, by the same table, were b5,507, ,085; consequently the expert of those products, that year, to Texas, amounted to 3 per cent of those exports 10 all the rest of the world. The exports of our agrieultu- ral products, .eXcluding cotton, rice, and to- bacco,) that year, to all other countries, ex- cept Texas, (and including molasses, inaccu- rately placed in the table of manufacturers ] was e11,156, ,057 and consequently the ex- ports of these products that year to Texas amounted to more than per cent. of the agricultural exports that year to all the rest of the world. By the same table, the export of all our manufactures in 1889, (exclusive of gold and silver coin1 to all other countries, except Texas, was S3,217,562. Now, the exports of our domestic manufactures, that year, to Texas being S929,07l, consequently Ieras consumed of our domestic mdanfac- tves, M 1889, an amouat largely exceeding one fourth, aud Rcariy eqHal to oae-fhird of OUT domestic RlanufaciUreS exported abr0ad, and consumed hat gear, by al bte rest of the world Such are the astounding results es- abolished by the official report of the -Secre- tary of the Treasury, under date of June 25th, I840, and to be found in vol. s Senate docu- ments for that year, No. 577. Such was our trade with Texas the year ending Both Sep tamber, 1889, before her independence was recognized by any other power except by this republic, and before she had entered into commercial treaty with any other power, and therefore stood to Us in the relation, in many respects, as regards her trade, as a territory of the Union. Now, the treaty of amity and commerce between France and Texas was signed at Paris on the 25th of September, lS39; the treaty of amity and commerce be- tween Holland and Texas was signed at the Hague on the 18th of September, l840; the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Texas signed at London on the 18th of November, 1840; all of which have been long since ratified. Now, let Us observe the effect upon our trade with Texas, of her in- troduction into the family of nations, by the recognition of her independence by other na- tions, and treaties of commerce with them thus placing her towards us in the attitude of foreign state. The resolution offered by me in the Senate of the United States for the recognition of the independence of Texas, was adopted on the 2d of March, 1897 and with that year commence the tables of our exports 10 Texas as new empire, inscribed on the books of the treasury. These tables, in the treasury reports of our exports to Texas, exhibit the following result
 Our exports to Texas in 1887, S1,007,928
 {" 1888, 1,247880
 1899, 1,68I082
 < l840, 1,218,27l
 " 1S4l, S0S,296
 " 1842, 406,929
 " 1S43, 190,6O4
 If our exports to Texas had augmented from 1899 to 1913, as they had done from 1897 to 1889, and as they must have done with her great increase of business and pop ulation, but for her being placed towards us, in the mean time, in the attitude of a foreign