The rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-23

production of b rewenue and b
changes In prices Of various articles
The beginning Of reciprocity Ia also
shown This statement II very i'm
portant and very interesting IL overs
eleven months bringing the results
almost down 10 date II was prepared
by 4 g. Brock. the chief Of the bureau
Of statistics and h ~ follows;
During the eleven mouths from October 1.
iso 90 Augusta. 1891. under the operation Of
the new tariff iaw. the total value Of our
foreign an Imports and expor OF
merchandise combined. vas ueoA7s7.1eA or
an Increase Of fA.7sseD over the value Of
our foreign commerce during the cor.
responding period Of prior year. when u was
$3.50 oia6r. The average annual Increase
Of our foreign com merce imports and En-.
ports OF m-rrchandlsel during the twenty
years from iri 10 1881 was Ns.sit,ss1 IL will
be observed that the Increase during the
eleven months under the operation OF the
new tariff was nearly double this average
annual increase. OF the total OF
the eleven months ended August 81. 1891. the
value of Dur Imports Of merchandise was
FN.7i0.eSN an Increase of ~, 6si. ais over the
value OF the Imports Of the corresponding
months Of the prior years. and the value OF
the exports was $50. s5i.s an Increase Of
its os7.s 2 over the prior period.
During the eleven months from October 1,
$50. 90 August 81, 1891. under the operation
AZ Inc new tarid the xalue of lmnort. of an.
table merchandise was Rss ,slg. 62s. while
during the corresponding period of the pre-.
ceding year the value of dutlable mcrchan.
disc was stsi ssi .s9i. showing n decrease for
the eleven month. under me new tariff Of
ssi Ssi, 765 In the value of merchandise paying
duty. n NAV also be noted that the total
yalue az the imports for the eleven months
sr69 no "a, .xeeeaed In value IN, lmuorts Of
apv v.ar in tha hlstorv Of our government
exeentlny the ascal GEAR iso when their
value was $50 moan n. however. the I'm.
norris OF scnt.mbor Isal. eoual those of An.
.nst an. total I,nnovts wil iarv.,v crceed
,hose ~ tso
sIncc tho enactment NJ tho new tariff law
,hor. has heen q iarg. rea,c,ion In thc r.ya-
nne from eustona This va. mnlated
IN the min ,tseif which r.cltsd AZ Is head.
An act 10 r.duce the revenue Z" etc IL wul
br obaerved there was during the wear a re.
duction In the customs revenue Of tu sR.
lqA la notwIthstandi ng there was a large I'm.
errase I'm the lmports Of merchandise This
larye reauctIon in ,he revenue occuyr,d
during the last three. ouart.rao Of the year in.
Guided m the statement The lner-as. that
anneara I'm the nrst ouarter occurr,d In Oo.
,nhey teuo. the month In which IN. new
,arl9 ven, INTO .oac, IN. new law did
No, 90 into effect untll the gh and tne i'm
norris of merchandise and the withdrawal
az m-erchandIse from varebouses Immeai
atciv prlor 10 that date was very large. The
reduction of ,he rev.nue from eustoma dur.
inc the three ouart.rs ended sentember a
1901 a. comnared with the same nerlod az
IN. rrlor wear was xls otI sss u hut In ron
slderlng the statement of the whole txelye
months tbis amount is emf down law IN, In.
oreaaed revenue collected during the nr,t
quarter. which occurred in October. "a mon.
tanned above IL vii be remembered NOW.
ever that the prln.tnaI article of our i'm.
morris of merchandI.e from which the dutv
wa. removed il sugar and by the provisions
of thu new tariff law the removal of this
duty did not take effect until Aprl L. 1881.
During the two ouarters since tnat date IL
will be seen that the reduction In customs
revenue. ms comparpd with the same perlod
of the prIor wear. amounted to At. $50. 2sLl "a.
From this n will reasonably anpear that the
reductions for an entire wear will be fully as
large. n not in excess. of the amount con.
temulated In the enactment of the new tariff
law n further appears from the above
table that the total receipts from customs
during the twelve months prlor to the mas.
saye OF the nev tariff were ,2s7 CO. Az a.. and
ior this arst twelve months after the enact.
nent Of the new tariff Iaw the reeaInts were
slps a02. Oos M The customs revenue col.
lecfad during fhe first neriod Of twelve
months per eanIta of nopulatIon was
Ae0. and during the second neriod
p07. or a reduction per caplta
Of FAC. The reduction In cuatoms reyenue
has been greatly accelerated since Aprll 1
last. when the duty was removed from sugar
IL appears from the table that the customs
revenue uer canIta of nopulatlon collected
1urtnR the six months ending September 80.
1891. was only $40. II the customs revenue
collected during the following ak months.
ended March 81. Iss2. should be in the same
proportIon. the customs revenue per canlta
collected during the year ending with the
latter date would be only xAe0. or A reduction
of Al. 10 per caplta of population In customs
revenues collected for that year. This would
be the lowest revenue per capita eollected
from customs for twenty. Ave wears since
1854. and n. ~ per capIta less than the annual
average rate OF DUTY collected during that
perIod on imported merchandise. which was
a M per capita.
The yaIue of MIR exnorts of domeatlc and
foreign merchandise during the arst eleven
months ended August Al. isu. after the
new tariff. was ssla b7i.su and sla. 0s- ana
larger than the exports of like merchandise
for the corresponding eleven months of the
prlor wears while the old tariff was I'm force
when thew were of the value of k7gl lst. g,s
This increase of si9.o s7, a2s in our exports
during the eleven months ended August 81.
1891. was nearly two and one.haIf times