The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-15

to 31s Dec 1871. $40 48 81 800 6262 057 10
increasing up to the year 1897 whom tariff was esta
bhed the prohibitory system the utter exclusion
Of many articles Of Importation, such coarse cottons
quent years, therefore exhibit falling of which
rightly attributed in the of 1880 the extra
VACANT increase Of the rate Of duties There
modification of the tariff in $780, at the urgent socita
ton OF the who discovered that like the
Roman virgin they might be crushed under the load of
favors heaped upon them In fact the oontrsband
undermining legitimate business and nothing saved
them but participation in Its profits, and vending the
foreign articles as their own manufacture
There was no m.moria published for the fiscal year
1882 and 80, but it understood these revenues
amounted to s7,bas,5a5 rs 10 gs "or Whereabouts"
MI Wyllie is my authority whose information Is gene
rally more accurate than his disposition to crafty his
correspondents by mparting it at the expense to him
who would suffer by full statement of the condition of
Mexico. The next year ending In 1884, of still
the part Of the people purchase the duties do not
prohibit it, than the actual amount Of cash received in
the treasury It was year of virtual payments, in
consequence of the great quantity Of drafts
put into circulation the year previously during tho do
mesc disturbances of the republic, where revolutions
be attributed the absence Of the tables of receipts
from the maritime custom houses in the memoria for
the year 1884 and 1885, revolution took place and
drafts were plenty.
The merchants purchased foreign importations libs-
rally but paid the duties in dspresistsd
paper. The stock Of goods, however large
present demand and remained undsposed of until the
next year. when the supply from abroad asked for
with which to pay the duties The focal year ending
In 1886 shows falling of in the of three mil
nons But tins was not all good. we're cheap In the
was again called for and further protection again given
The dimnuton Of the receipts for the year ending in
1897 exhibits the result Of this uuwise legislation The
tables containing the custom house returns for the SUBJ
sequent years not published, but the estimated
mean the tsr Of that y..r|vorssd wonders
in again deranging the revenues the of the
country, and the profits Of manufacturing. regret
fhatV arA~ k.lla
pared since 1t is in operation. Had it not been for the
virtua payments made in the custom house, the
ceps would not exhibit large margin The rsyolI;
the duties have been paid
The effect of the tariff Of si2 has been to inure trade
without benefttng their hot-bed manufactures. The
unbleached musins sodin the United States at cents
per yard cannot be procured there under Is cents and
calcoes worth 10 cents cost 70 in Mexico All valuable
articles Of bulk and which are more tempting for
NE contraband trade be purchased at much cheaper
rates Silks, satns cashmere shawls and the like,
be had at as fair prices In markets The
ciatRs policy Of the government in regard to the tariff
system one cause among for the estrangement
Of the merchants towards their country, and
bonding admiration and preference for the United States
An attempt has been made by some 20 estimate the
probable receipts in the treasury for tae future by Ia
King the average receipts for the past That like
VIII produce like results Is undsputed axiom; but 1t
would be unsafe to 1t in anticipating amounts In
Mexican finances constantly vibrating system of ia
riffs and equally constant alterations of peace and war;
with an imitation and depression Of current funds for the
psymsnt Of duties and added TO an blockade OF tho
=
ly produce unnatural state Of Affairs In the maritime
custom house which are not to be hoped for in
the future.
II has been calculated that the gross revenues ele
ending in 1897 would give yearly average of
statements prov. that the legitimate amount should
be nearly as much more II contraband trade sup
pressed Don Antonio Garay states la his meaora of
1884 that the maritime duties may be pronounced to
be not one half OF what they ought legally to produce
Sierra Rosso Ia note added tho memora for 1885,
asserts that at least third Of the goods value i'm
ported nd n ready
noticed estimates that Of the foreign goods twothirds
have been entered without paying duties.
These are all good authorities; but the misfortune Is,
they widely differ, and that too tabular statements
which even ministers admit are falacious. 1t Is not
spectivs years In which they wrote TO q series of
years prior IL they intend the former the revenues
might be computed to yield upwards ofegheen miions
II the latter, somewhere about twelve millions. But
the WHOLE considering the inaccuracy of
ceived from the cash and virtual" entries the
annual variation In the amounts, and the upcer-
tainty to the extent Of the contraband trade it will
be admitted that estimate of Mexican maritime
venues must De very far from mathematical certsinty
have given the careful attention. and taking
all that have read and heard into confederation
am inclined to believe that under our jurisdiction and
duties may be safely computed at thirteen millions Of
dollars annually. Don Antonio Garsy that the
cu.om houses properly organized on prudent cal
ican) requires, taking
Tsmuico Observation-Disclosures CoOooo
Alvarado, Csmpeche, SO. ...............l000 ,0 900
The custom houses the Pacific. ..2Ooo,ooo
SI50OoO00
1t seems impossible or many reasons to obtain any da
to upon which to calculate the value of the imports and
exports OF Mexico Time would be misspcnt in giving
insulated statements which could only show how little Is
known. The exports from Vera Cruz have been princ
pally gold and silver alsp sniseod sugar, indigo coch
neal vanilla, and sarssparilla from Tsmpco gold and
silver sarsspars, indigo mules, goatekiDs, hides, and
dye-drugs from Matamoras wool some cotton, horns
and hides and from Tobasco, dyedrugs aud COCOA be-
sides tobacco coffee coohineal, hides pepper,
nila and sarsaparilla.
The next has heretofore been found
ia the dicdpolo interior consumptve duty mpos
ed the foreign goods which have been entered
and paid the duties imposed at the maritime custom
house. This consumption duty Is about 10 cent
the amount hrst paid Mt the port Of entry and col
lected at the custom houses In the inland States the
goods have been opened In State and the is
per cent duty paid does not exempt them In tho event
Of their removal to another from paying over again the
elcardia charges.
Free trade to be odous to Mexicans that 1t
does not exist between the different States Of the
republic General Scott In general orders No ave- Dee
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