The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-29

WASHINGTON, July 28-The bureau of
statistics of the treasury department to-
day issued a summary statement and re-
view of foreign commerce and lmmlgra-
ton for the year ending June 80, 1891.
It gives also a comparative statement OF
imports and exports during the past nine
months, during which time the new tariff
law has been in effect, with the cores
pOnding nine months of last year.
The statement says that the total value
of foreign commerce for the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history of the
government, and exceeds the total or 1890
by So, ,l9l, S02. The commerce of 1890 was
tle greatest up 10 that time. exceeding the
commerce OF 1889 by Sl59, ,606, 063. The
total value of the commerce during the
past fiscal year amounted TO Sl.129, 33O, $50.
During the year there has been an in
crease in imports (in the order of magni-
tude) 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
a decline in the value of imports of wool
and manufactures thereof, silk and manu-
taCtures thereof, hemp, Jute, breadstuifs
and animals. The total value Of imports
during the year was $S44, 905, 49l. Total
value of the exports of merchandise dur
ing the year was SSS4, 42i O5S.
There was also an excess Of exports of
domestic merchandise over such exports of
the prior year of $26, S4I ,73j7. The increase
in these exports has been in the following
articles Stated in the order OF magnitude):
Raw cotton, provisions, refined sugar, cot
ton manufactures, copper and manufac-
lures thereof, iron and steel and manufac-
lures thereof The value of the leading
articles of export during the year was rs
follows: Cotton, $500 7OS, 1913; breadstufIs,
l21S6S, O92; provisions, $l3S, if6 G3S.
Since the new tariff law has been in op-
Grafton the total value of imports of mer-
chandise was $500, ,2O6, ,O05, as compared with
S59S, ,769, 905, the value of the imports of the
corresponding period of 1890, showing an
increase in such imports for the nine
months of SS6979, 192. During the same
period ending June 30, 1891, the imports OF
merchandise paying duty was S334, ,242, $40,
as compared with 1899, 7S6. 032 for the same
period of 1890, showing a decrease of such
imports of S55, ,543, ,692
1t viii be seen, says the statement, that
during the nine months since the new
tariff law went into effect, of the total val
ue Of merchandise imported into this
country 46 90 per cent came in free, while
during the corresponding period Of 1890
1892 per cent was admitted free. in fact
IL appears that the value Of merchandise
imported free during the last nine months
was greater by $50 900, 900 than the value of
such merchandise admitted during the
whole year 1890, and nearly S4O,O0O,0O0
greater than during the prior fiscal year
ending June 30 1895"
The exports Of gold and silver during
The fiscal year were sos, 729, 2S3 and the
Imports $50 2l2 334 The exports of gold
during the last fiscal year were SS6 1863, ,622.
and the imports SIS. S.246, ,572, the excess of
exports being the largest in the history of
Dur commerce.
There has been a large increase in the
volume Of immigration during the last
fiscal year The total is 555, 49, against
b4l, ,2l9 for the previous year. This increase
is largely from the following countries:
Italy, q, $50; AustrIa-Hungary, Il. $50: Ger
many, =, l22; Russia, including Poland,