Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-30
INTERESTING STATISTICS
About Foreign Commerce and Immigra-
ton for Last Fiscal Year.


ton for Last Fiscal Year.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The Bureau
OF Statistics of the Treasury Depart
ment has to-day issued summary state
ment and review of the foreign COM
merce and immigration Of the United
States during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1891. 1t gives also COM
parison of the imports and ex-
ports of the past nine months during
which the new tariff law has been in
effect as compared with the correspond
ing nine months of the preceding fiscal
year. The statement says that the
total value of the commerce for the
past fiscal year was the greatest in the
history OF the government, and
exceeded the total value Of COM
MERGE of 1890 by the sum Of $50, 191, 1903.
The commerce of 1890 was the largest
for any year in the history Of the Gov
ernment up to that time. During the
year there was an increase in our i'm
ports of merchandise in the order
of magnitude in the following ar
ticles: Coffee, tin plates, hides and
skins, fruits, chemicals, and drugs,
India rubber and gutta percha, sugar
and molasses, etc. There has been
decline in our imports OF wool and man.
ufactures of silk, hemp, jute, bread
stuffs and animals.
There was also an excess of exports
of domestic merchandise over such ex-
ports of the prior year OF SIC, 941, 1877.
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-
features. copper and manufactures
thereof, iron and steel and manufactures
thereof.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation in America to June l, 1891,
inclusive, the total value OF the imports
of merchandise were $500, 2O6, OO5, as
compared with S59s, 769, 9O5, the value OF
such imports for the corresponding Pc
riod of 1890, which shows an excess for
the months of 1891, OF SCI, 436, loo.
The value Of the imports of merchan-
disc admitted free OF duty during the
nine months ended June 80, 1891, $685.
963. Cos, while the value of such imports
for the corresponding period of 1890
was SOS, 9S3,S73 showing an in
crease in the imports OF free
merchandise during the past nine
months of $50, 979, 792. During the same
period ended June 80, 1891, the imports
in merchandise paying duty was of the
value OF 1894, 942, $40, as compared with
$3.50, 7s6, OS2 for the corresponding
period of 1890, so that 1t appears that
there has been a decrease during the
last nine months OF the fiscal year OF
1891 in the value OF dutiable imports of
5,545, 692.
at 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 imported
into this country 1896 per cent. came in
free, while during the correspond
ing period OF 1890 34.92 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, 900
than the value Of such merchandise ad-
mitted during the whole of 1890, and
nearly $40, 00O, 600 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80, 1850.
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 451,219 during
the fiscal year 1890, showing
an increase during the last fiscal year OF
1O4. pr. This increase is largely from
the following countries: Italy, %, 354;
Austria-Hungary, II, SOL; Germany, 81
122; Russia including Poland, 2s,245.