The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-29
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
Shown by the Treasury Depart
ment's Statistics,
UNDER M'KINLEYS TARIFF Law.
The Volume of Trade for the Past
Fiscal Year has been Greater than
for ANY Year in the Country's His
tory---A Gratifying State of AfIairs.
Interesting Figures.

WAsHlYcToN, July 2S.-The Bureau Of
Statistics OF the Treasury Department
has to-day issued summary statement
and review of the foreign commerce and
immigration Of the United States during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1891. 1t
gives also a comparison Of the imports
and exports Of the past nine months
during which the new tariff law has
been in effect ascompared with the cor
responding nine months Of the preced-
ing fiscal year.
fhe statement SAYS that the total
value OF the commerce for the past
fiscal year was tine greatest in the his.
tory Of the government and exceeded
the total value Of commerce OF 1890 by
the sum OF $50, ,l9l. .S0S. The commerce
Of 1890 was the largest for any year in
the history Of the government up to
that time.
During the year there was an increase
in our imports OF merchandise in the
order OF magnitude in the following
articles: Coffee, tin plates, hides and
skins, fruits, chemicals and drugs, India
rubber and gutta percha, sugar and
molasses, etc. There has been de-
cline in our imports OF wool and manu-
factures Of silk. hemp and jute, Of
breadstufTs and animals.
There was also an excess of exports
of domestic merchandise over such ex-
ports OF the prior year of S26,04l, ,73I.
The increase in these exports has been
in the following articles, stated IN order
Of magnitude OF increase: Raw cotton,
provisions, refined sugar, cotton manu-
factures, copper and manufactures
thereof, iron and steel and manufac-
lures thereof.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation to June /, 1891, inclusive, the
total value of the imports of merchan-
disc were $3.50, ,206, ,005, as compared with
S59S, ,769, ,905, the value OF sucn imports
for the corresponding period Of 1880,
which shows an excess for the nine
months OF 1891 Of S3l, 1886, 100.
The value Of the imports OF merchan-
disc admitted free of duty during the
nine months ended June 80, 1891, $685.
063, Cos, while the value Of such imports
for the corresponding period OF 1890,
was SOS, 1913, showing an increase in
the imports OF free merchandise during
the past nine months OF Ss6,979,792.
During the same period ended June 80,
1901, the imports in merchandise pay
ing duty was OF the value OF S3S4, ,242,-
$40, as compared with $SS9, ,7SG,092 for
the corresponding period Of 1890, so
that 1t appears there has been decrease
during tho last nine months Of the fiscal
year OF 1901 in the value OF dutiable i'm
ports $55, 5,543,092.
at will be seen them" says the state
ment, "that during the nine months
since the new tariff went into effect, Of
the total value OF merchandise imported
into this country 46.96 per cent came IN
free, while during the corresponding
period OF 1890, 34.02 per cent was ad-
mitted free. In fact, it appears that
the value OF merchandise imported free
during the last nine months of the past
fiscal year was greater by $50, 200
than tile value OF such merchandise ad.
mitted during the whole OF 1890, and
nearly S4OO0O,O00 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80,
1889.
There has been large increase in the
volume OF immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The
total number arriving was 555,45G, as
against 45l ,9lO during the fiscal year
1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of lO4,27T This increase
is largely from the following countries:
Italy, 2S,S54; Austria-Hungary, 14,S6l
Germany, 2l,l22; Russia, including
| Poland. 2S.245.