The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-29
Results Of Nine Months of the Nc
Kinley Tariff Set Forth in
Figures.
More Goods Now Being Brought In
to Compete With Home
Products.
Less Duty Paid, No Additional American
Workmen EMPLOYED, and Thousands
Of Laborers Coaxed Over.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The bureau Of
statistics of the treasury department has
issued a review Of the foreign commerce
and immigration of the United States dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1891. It
gives. also, a comparison of Imports and
exports for the past nine months, during
which the new tariff law hns been in effect,
as compared with the corresponding nine
months of the preceding fiscal year. The
total commerce of the past fiscal year was
the greatest in the history of the govern
ment, and exceeded the total value of the
commerce of 1890 by $82 191.s03. The COM
merce of 1890 was the largest for any year
in the history Of the government up to that
time, exceeding the commerce Of the prior
year by $159, ,6O6,O63. The total commerce
during the past fiscal year amounted to
$1,729, 33O, 1896. During the year there
was an increase OF our i'm
ports of merchandise, in order of
magnitude. in the following articles: Coffee,
pilates, hides and skins, fruits, chem
icalf and drugs, India rubber and gutta
percha. sugar and molasses, etc. There
has been decline of our imports of wool
and manufactures thereof, hemp and jute
and manufactures thereof, breadstutfs and
animals. The total value of the exports of
merchandise was 1884, ,4c5, ,405 which shows
an excess in favor of exports du ing the
fiscal year of $39.b19,914. There was also
an excess of exports of domestic merchan-
disc over such exports for the prior year of
$26, ,941, 737. The increase in exports has
been in the following articles, stated in the
order of the magnitude of increase: Raw
cotton, provisions. refined sugar. cotton
manufactu copper and manufactures
thereof, iron and steel and manufactures
thereof. The value of the leading articles
exported from the United States during the
past year were as follows: Cotton, $780,
$128 1868.
Since the new tariff law has been in ope a.
! tion, from Oct. 6, 1880. to June 30, 1891, in
elusive, the total value of imports of mer-
chandise was $500. .0O5, compared with
| 1858, ,905 for the the corresponding
| the nine months of $3l, ,436, 100. The value
| OF imports Of merchandise admitted free
during the nine months ended June 3d.
1891, was 1926, ,963,665 while the value of
such imports for the corresponding period
of 1890 was $20S, ,9S3.S73, showing an in
months of $8G,979, 1872 During the same
period ended June 30, 1891, the imports of
merchandise paying duty was of tho value
OF 1884, 242, $40, as compared with $3.50, 1885,
O32 for the corresponding period of 1890.
So it appears there has been a decrease
during the last nine months of
the fiscal year 1891 in the
value of dutiable imports of $55,543, 692.
During the nine months since the new tariff
went into effect of the total value of mer-
chandse imported into the country 1886
per cent. came in free while during the
corresponding period of 1890 34.92 per cent.
were admitted free. 1t appears that the
value of merchandise imported free during
the last nine months of the past fiscal year
was greater by $3.50, 100000 than the value of
such merchandise admitted during the
whole of 1880, and nearly $40, 100000 greater
than during the period of the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1889.
Exports of gold and silver during the last
fiscal year were $108, 729, 298, and imports
$3d, 212, 1884. an excess of e1yorts of $72,51G,
954. The exports of gold during the last
fiscal year were S8.363, ,G22, and imports
$1S, ,M6, 6l2, showing an hxcess of exports of
$6S, III, 40, the largest excess of exports of
gold in any year of our commerce.
There has been large increase in the
volume of immigration. into tho United
States during the last fiscal wear. The to
tai number arriving was 555, ,456, as against
451 ,219, an increase during the year of 1O4,-
277. This increase was largely from the
following countries: Italy 23.354, Austria
Hungary 14,S61, Germany 2l,122, Russia,
including Poland, 28,25.