Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Few More Appointments
by the President.
SOME STRIKING STATISTICS.
A Technically Agitates the Land
Office-Trouble Brewing in
Behring Sea.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.


Receivers of Public Moneys; Henri.
G. Pickles, of Delaware, at Folsom Nov
Mexico; Frank Lesnet, of New Mexico
at Roswell, New Mexico.
Registers of Land Offices: William P
Alexander, of Colorado, at Del Norte
Colorado; John Fl. Mills,of New Mexico
at Roswell, New Mexico.
Indian Agent: John Fosher, of Wyom
ing, at Shoshone Agency, Wyoming.
SOME STARTLING STATISTICS.
The report of the statistician of the
Agricultural Department contains the re-
suit of the Investigations of deficiencies
or surplus of such agricultural products
as seek foreign markets. The question
of the possible enlargement OF exporta-
ton in quantity and variety is canvassed
while the opportunities for displacing any
importation by enlarged home
production are pointed out. The
investigation was made pursuant to a
resolution passed at a me citing OF national
grain dealers held in Topeka, Kansas,
last fall. Some of the figures given in
the statement prepared by the report are
startling. AS to wheat, it says that
Europe is practically the only market
Americans can have for this cereal, and
she imports only LA 1000, 900 bushels per
year, raising 1900 000,0 bushels her
self, more than half of the worlds crop,
and twice that of America. Of the
European deficiency the United States
supplies 90, 900, 900 bushels. In oats and
barley there is very small interna-
tional trade, Europe importing only
$4,000, 900 of oats and the United States
exporting 100000 bushels. OF barley
this country imports 100000 bushels.
Rye is the great bread grain of Eastern
and Central Europe, and Russia,
alone, produces more than does
tie United States. Europe imports
not less than one and half million
bushels, and the United States exports
less than three million bushels. The re.
ports ON European countries requiring
maize do not make the sum half as large
as the products of Illinois or of Missouri.
Great Britain takes nearly three-fourths
of the total, or so ,000,000 bushels, and
this country exports 68,000,000 bushels.
The deficiency of France could not be
supplied by Mclean county, ILL.,, but
nearly go, and Germany requires still
less. Russia and Roumania have a sur
plus. and Southern Europe grows enough
for home consumption. Europe imports
over one billion pounds of rice, but none
of it comes from the United States. OF
potatoes Europe grows more than she
needs, while the United States supplies
her deficiency from Canada and Ger.
many. Only Great Britain, Belgium
and Portugal, of all the European ma.
tons, do not produce enough butter and
to spare to make up the deficiency Of
% ,000, 900 pounds. The United States
exports 24,00O,OOO. 1t requires 140, 000,-
600 OF cheese to supply Europe, a def
cheney of which lis, 000, 900 are furnished
by the United States. Of course Europe
has to import all her cotton, the annual
average imports being 1886, 900 900
pounds. The United States sends 1 $780,
600, 900 pounds. Europe gets from South
America, Asia, Africa and Australia two
or three times as much wool as she i'm
ports from the United States. The net
deficiency of Europe is 100000, 900
pounds, slightly more than is produced
there. The United States produces four
fifths of the wool manufactured here.
The aim of the wool growers of this
country is to supply home manufacturers
if possible, and never to export raw wool.
If there ever shall be surplus, it will bring
more money to the wool-growers
if sent abroad in manufactured form
from the United States. The United
States imports net SO, 100000 pounds OF
wool every year. Europe produces
about as much tobacco as the United
States-500, 100000 pounds annually
and could easily produce all she needs,
but that Am erican tobacco is desired for
two reasons-it is cheap and very desir-
able for fortifying the European product.
So the United States furnishes 242 ,000,-
600 pounds of the annual deficiency,
324, 100000 pounds.
In conclusion the statistician says that
about one-tenth of our agricultural
products is exported. No other nation
exports so large a proportion, yet the
articles shipped abroad are few. They
are cotton, tobacco, meats, breadstuffs,
butter and cheese. All other articles to-
gether are about three per cent. OF the
exports. The enlargement OF the sur
plus must inevitably reduce the price
both at home and abroad.
In response to an inquiry as to what
agricultural products are now imported
that our country and climate are capable
vi prOuuClHS.buRhI Is uIbt buRSoStou. L ldA
and hemp should be more extensively
grown, displacing foreign fbres costing
millions of money, and furnishing ma
terial for bagging of cotton, wool and
hemps, and other fbres of the sub
tropical regions, which should be pro.
duced along the Gulf coast. Import cd
fibres, with their manufactures, alto gethe,
amount in value to more than two-thirds
as much as the munificent and boosted
cotton expectation of the United States
There is an importation of fruits of the
value of $20,00O,000, half of which, al
least, should be produced in this country
SERIOUS QUESTION IN THE LAND OFFICE
WASHINGTON, May 20-The opinion O
the United States Supreme Court in the
case of the United States vs.. John ID
Hall was today the subject of earnest
discussion among the officials of the
General Land Office. One of the points
at issue was that Hall had made oath be-
fore a notary public. The Supreme
Court decided that where an oath is
required by the United States statute
that oath can be administered only
by an officer OF the United States hence
notary public, being State officer
cannot administer oaths to United States
officials, except the statutes specificall,
state that oath may be made before suct
State official. This opinion, it is be
lieved, seriously affects the status o
more than hundred Thousand
cases in the mineral division alon,