The record-union., 1891-07-29
Special TO the REcoRp-Ux1ox.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The Bureau
of Statistics of the Treasury Department
has issued a review of the foreign COM
merce and immigration of the United
States during the fiscal year ended June
80, 1891. 1t gives also comparison of
the imports and exports of the past nine
months, during which the new tariff law
has been in effect, as compared with the
corresponding nine months of the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
The total commerce of the last fiscal
year was the greatest in the history ofthe
Government, and exceeds the total value
OF the commerce of 1890 by $50, ,191 ,S03.
The commerce of 1890 was the largest for
any year in the history of the Govern
ment up to that time, exceeding the COM
merce of the prior year by Sl59, sos, ,063.
Our total commerce during the past fiscal
year amounted to 81, ,T29, $3.50, ,S9l.
During the year there was an increase
OF our imports of merchandise in order of
magnitude in the following articles:
Coffee, tin-plate, hides and skins, fruits,
chemicals and drugs, India rubber and
gutta percha, sugar and molasses, etc.
There has been decline in the value of
our imports of wool and manufactures
thereof, silk and manufactures thereof,
hemp and jute and manufactures thereof,
and breadstuffs and animals.
The total value of exports of merchan-
disc was 1885,, As, 405, which shows an ex-
cess III favor of the exports during the
fiscal year of $50, ,9l4. There was. also.
an excess of exports of domestic mer-
chandise over such exports the prior
year of S26,94l ,737. The increase in ex-
ports has been in the following articles,
stated III the order of magnitude of in
crease: Raw cotton, provisions, refined
sugar, cotton manufactures, copper and
manufactures thereof, iron and steel and
manufactures thereof
The value of the leading articles of ex-
ports from the United States during the
past year were as follows: Cotton, $780,
70S,S 1893; breadstuffs, Sl27 ,66S, ,O92; pro-
visions, $l3S, l76. .63S.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation, from October 6, 1890, to June
80, 1891, inclusive, the total value of e.
ports of merchandise was 5000, ,206, ,O05,
compared with S55S, 169, ,905 for the CORE
spending period of 1890, which shows an
| excess for the nine months of 1891 of
$3l S4S6, 100.
The value of imports of merchandise
admitted free during the nine months
ended June so, 1891, was S295, ,963, ,665,
while the value of such imports for q
corresponding period in 1890 was SOS, $685.
S73, showing an increase in the imports
free OF duty during the past nine months
of $50, 1892 During the same period,
ended June 80, 1891, the impor of mer-
chandlse paying duty was of the value of
S334, ,242, $40, as compared with $3.50, 7S6, ,032
for a corresponding period Of 1890. So it
appears that there has been decrease
during the last nine months of the fiscal
year of 1891 in value of dutiable imports
of $55 ,543, ,692.
During the nine months since the new
tariff went into effect, of the total value
of merchandise imported into the coun-
try, 1886 per cent. came in free, while
during a corresponding period in 1890,
1892 per cent. was admitted free. It ap-
pears that the value of merchandise inn
ported free during the last nine months
of the fiscal year was greater by $50, ,000,-
600 than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole of 1890, and
was nearly $40, 100000 greater than during
| the period Of the fiscal year ended June
| 80, 1889.
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were sos, ,729, ,2SS, and
| the imports $40, ,2I2, ,334 an excess of OK
ports of S72, ,5l6,954. The exports of gold
during the last fiscal year were SIS, ,36j,-
622 and the imports of gold 1926, ,512,
showing an excess of exports of Sos, H.
ITO, the largest excess of exports of gold
IN any year of our commerce.
There has been q large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. Tho
total number arriving was 800, ,456, as
against 45l, ,2l9 during the year of 1890, an
increase of 104,2 ,277. This increase was
largely from the following countries
Italy q, 1854, Austro- Hungary Il, 1861, Ger
many 2l,122, Russia, including Poland,
2S, 245.