The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-08-05
FOREIGN COMMERCE.

FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Interesting Figures From the D1rsas q
Seatistics-E6ects Of the New TaFl2-
Great Increase Of Immigration.
WASH NGToN, July 2a-The burea.
Of statistics Of the treasury department
has issued \ summary statement ana
review of the foreign commerce and
immigration of the United States dur
! ing the fiscal year ended June 80. 1891
and . comparison of the imports sni
| exports of the past nine months. during
which the new tariff law has been in
effect as compared with the corre-
! spending nine months of the preceding
fiscal year.
The statement says that the total
value of the commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history o,
the government and exceeded the total
value of the commerce of 1890 by ST.
19l, SO3. The commerce of 1890 was the
largest for any year in the history Of
the government up to that time, ex.
ceeding the commerce of the prior year
by S159, 6O6, O63 The total commerce.
during the past fiscal year amounted ia
81, 729, $50. 800. During the year there
was an increase in imports of merchan.
disc 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 decline in the value of imports
of wool and manufactures thereof, silk
and manufactures thereof, hemp and
stuffs and animals.
The total value of imports of mer-
chandise during the last year was SS44.-
COS. 49L The total value of exports of
merchandise during the same period
was 1854, 424. 05s, which shows an excess
in favor of exports during the year Of
$50, 519,914 There was also an excess
of exports of domestic merchandise
over imports of the prior year of go, 941.-
49, The increase in these exports has
been in the following articles, stated in
order of magnitude of increase: Raw
cotton, provisions, refined sugar, cotton
manufactures. copper and manufact-
ures thereof iron and steel and manu-.
features thereof.
The value of the leading articles Of
export from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
$3.50, 70s. sos; breadstuffs, s137, s6s. 0o2,
and provisions, s13s. 179.63s.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation. from October 1890. to June
80, 1891, inclusive, the total value of the
imports of merchandise was $3.50, 2O6,.
COS. as compared with S59s, 769. 9O5, the
value of such imports for the CORE
spending period of 1890 which shows an
excess for the nine months of 1891 of
S31, 436, 100. The value of the imports of
merchandise admitted free of duty dur
ing the nine months ended June 80, 1891.
was S295, 963. 655, while the value of
such imports for the corresponding
period of 1890 was sos, 963, s73, showing
an increase in the imports of free
merchandise during the past nine
months of SS6. 979, 972. During the same
period ended June 80. 1891, the imports
of merchandise paying duty was of the
$3.50, 7S6, O3s for the corresponding period
of 1890, so that it appears there has
been decrease during the last nine
months of the fiscal year Of 1891 in the
value of dutiab!e imports of SIS. 543. 692
1T will be seen then" says the state
ment, ''that during the nine months
since the new tariff went into effect, of
the total value of merchandise import
ed into this country 46. 50 per cent
came in free, while during the CORE
spending period of 1890. "a. 80 per cent.
was admitted 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. OOO,-
900 than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole of 1890. and
nearly $40. 900. 900 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80,
1882"
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were Sos, 729, 2SS,
and the imports were $50. 212. 334. an ex-
cess of exports of s72 $685. The ex-
ports of gold during the last fiscal year
were $50, $685. 22. The imports of gold
were SIS, .46,512, showing an excess of
exports of gold of SOS, III, 11O-the
largest in any year.
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, 456 as against AL ,219 during the fis-
cal year 1890. showing an increase dur
ing the last fiscal year of 1O4,2 77. This
increase is largely fsom the following
countries: Italy, 23,354; Austria-Hun-
gary, 1851; Germany, 81, 122; Russia,
including Poland, 2S. 245.
THE ELLIOTT CASE.
The Jury Finally Decides Upon Verdict Of
Murder in the Second Degree.