Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-02

AShiNGioN, II. u, sept IL, 1881.
The summary statement of the imports
and exports of the United States for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1880, as made
up by che bureau of statistics, is emphat-
ically the record Of a great business year,
OF the general revival Of industries, and
OF the resumption Of, lralthy proportions
III our exchanges Of commodities and
merchandise with foreign countries
J his will appear plainly enough from the
figures, as compared with those for 1879.
These figures which are presented in de-
tail show a positive increase in our abil-
ity to buy increased quantities, not only
OF articles of food, fine wear and luxury,
but also of cothmodities fer use in our
manufactures in still larger proportion.
This, the increase Of the importations of
woolen goods, silk goods, tin plates and
leather, though large, is not near SO great
in proportion as the increase in the i'm
ports Of raw.hides,, crude india-rubber,
block and pig tin, raw silk and raw wool.
So, likewise, the comparison between the
increase in imports of manufactures of
wood and imports of wood to be used in
our domestic manufactures shows that
the latter must be increasing in a more
rapid proportion than the foreign impor-
tations which are bponght into competi
ton with them
Whle no doubts are entertained at tho
State department us to the truthfulness
OF the atiidavits fled there. setting forth
outrages committed by vessels bearing
the Spanish flag upon American scLoon-
srs, yet it il believed that any indignities
or insults Offered to American ships could
he explained by the fact that sensational
stories reached Madrid to the effect that
privatecrs were being fitted out in the
United States to assist the Cubans in
their insurreetion against Spain. These
rumors naturally gave rise to extreme
caution on the part of spanish captains
sent to watch suspicious looking vessels,
and this perhaps is the reason no explana-
tion has been made by Spain. Although
the Secretary OF State has not expressed
these views, he has said "that he believes
thorough and satisfactory explanation
will be reudered." His view is support
ed by the fact that communication has
been forwarded to the Spanish minister
from his home government containing
system Of commercial exchange between
this country and Cuba, by which the
most important products of Cuba can be
shipped to this country. This proposal
is regarded as an expression on the part
of the Spanish Government to remain on
friendly terms with the United States.
Numerous complaints are being receiv-
ed here in relation to the bad t, eatment
of German naturalized citizens by the
Government of their own nativity on
their visits to the Fatherland. From
this it appears that the German Govern
ment no longer makes any pretense of
complying with the terms of th., Bancroft
treaty, which was made for the protection
of German naturalized citizens. MANY
of them have been ordered to leave the
country almost Immediately on landing,
the question first being put to them
whether they are willing to serve in the
German army, which of course they an
awcr in the negative. Prof. White, of
Cornell University, who is now the
American Minister at Berlin, has uttered
the same lament as Mr.. James Russell
Lowell at Madrid, that he could find
nothing to do. But if he would look
after the protection of these American
citizens it would give him plenty of occu.
patton
The census shows that during the past
ten years Washington has increased 49,.
3o4, Georgetown, 1884, and Washing.
ton county s,6ss, the percentage of in
being 80 per cent for Washington, SO per
cent for the county and I5 per cent for
Georgetown. The whites of the Distric.
have Increased 29,958 aad tho colored
people l3,9Sa. The males have increased
2l.4O: and the females .24,536. The
larger pr7portionate increase of female.
is accounted for by the number of women
who have come to the District to seek
clerkships ana other situations.
The rumored engagement of tLe Secre
tary of the Interior to Miss Anna Fish
clerk III the Department Of which the
former presides is strongly sop6rmsd
This will perhaps explain the standin: