Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-28
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
immigration Changes in the Civil Service
Regulations.
by telegraph to tho Dlspatch.l

WASHINGTON. July 27.-The value Of inn
ports of merchandise during the last h'cai
wear amounted to ~745, l27,4 76, and OF cN-
ports 10 SAP, 40l 100. an excess OF imports
over exports of S2,725,60
OF our exports the value Of domestic
merchandise was S73O,232 Cos, and the Naiue
of foreign mer ,haudise, rl2,llJ.l93.
The total value of imports and exports
of merchandise was cl,4s1,529,Z'3, as
against , ,409.9l1 .6N during the hscai
wear of 1sSS-an increase OF S6I6ll,G54
The value of imports OF merchandise
amounted to S745, l27476. as against S123-
g57ll4 during the fiscal year looo-an IN
crease OF 81, H0,362.
The exports of merchandise amounted 10
S742. 40l 1893, as against s6y5,95i'oOf during
the fiscal year ls5S-an increase OF Sio,-
447292.
The value Of exports of merchandise
during the last fiscal year was larger than
during any other since 1888, and was only
exceeded by the exports of 1881. 1872, ana
1883.
The value of imports of merchandse
during the last fiscal year was the largest
in the history of our commerce, beng
larger than in the year 1882, when II
amounted 10 S72i 639,574.
During each of the years from 1876 70 1897
inclusive there was an excess OF exports
over imports of merchandise, the yearly
average for that period being SlA 3So ,3l2,
and amounting in 1881 TO S259.7i2,7ls;
During the Iiscal year 1858 the value OF
imports Of merchandise exceeded thar OF
exports SOS 0O2, COZ, and during the last
fiscal year only S2.725,67.
Exports and imports of gold and silver
during the last fiscal year were a. follows
Exports, 1856 Gal ,533; imports, SIS ,963'Oij,
an excess of exports over imports OF
SCI. 67S 100. The excess OF imports over
exports OF specie during the fiscal year OF
1855 was ST., 9z3 sos, and during the fiscal
wear of 1887, S24,l73, l0l. The exports OF
gold during the last fiscal year were the
largest since 1864, and amounted 70 Soy,-
952 ,2S5. The imports Of gold amounted 10
only $40, 2S4 ,S5s an excess OF exports over
imports Of S49. 667, 427. This excess Of ex-
ports over imports of gold occurred mainly
III May and June last, amounting during
those months 10 $50, 100000.
There has been a considerable decline IN
! the volume of Immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year, the num-
Der arriving being 1854, as against 5Sg,ol5
during the fiscal year of 1888, a decrease OF
lOl, POI. This decline was mainly IN arrl-
walls from the following-named countries
From Great Britain and Ireland, decrease
of n COZ from Italy, 1929; from Norway
and Sweden, "a, 1856 from Austria-Hungary
II ,6S7, and from Germany, l0,l33.
President Harrison has approved the
changes in the civil-seryice regulations as
applied 20 the railway mail service re-
commended by the Ciyil-Seryice Commits
sioners. These changes permit appoint
ment, without examination, OF printers
employed as such. aud Of substitutes to
take the place of regular appointees when
not employed for more than thirty days.
| The Cigil-Service Commission have recon-
mendod that the rules governing the APP
pointments of employees in the office of
the Supervising Architect Of the Treasury
shall be changed so Us to permit the em-
ployment of the best class Of talent in that
line. IL was shown by an investigation of
! the Office before the Senate committee last
winter that the best class of architects
will not submit to competitive examina-
ton for appointment, consequently the
architect has been hampered by an inferior
force. Architect Windrim laid the matter
| before the commission some daxs AGO.