Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-29
NATIONAL TRAFFIC.
Statistics of Our Commerce
with Other Lands.
TOTAL COMMERCE FOR ONE YEAR.

A Large Increase When Compared with
1S9O-Over Tifty-Five Million Dollars
Decrease in Imports of Dutisbie Goods
in Nine Months of the Present Fiscal
Year and an Increase of Nearly Eighty
Seven Millions in the Non-Dutisble
Articles - The National Republican
Committee Meeting.
WASHINGTON, July 29..-The bureau of
statistics of the treasury department has
issued its statement of foreign commerce
and immigration for the month of June,
1891 In this statement there is also re-
view of the commerce of the United States
during t he fiscal wear which ended June
80, 1891. There is much valuable informa-
ticn in the statement, as it covers not
only our trade with foreign nations dur
ing the twelve months, but gives COM
parison of the imports and exports of the
past nine mouths, during which the new
tariff law has been in effect, compared
with the corresponding nine months of
the prior year.
Increase in the Nations Commerce.
1t appears that there has been a large
and gratifying increase in the last fiscal
year when compared with that of 1890.
The total value of the commerce of the
past fiscal year was the greatest in the
history of the government, and exceeded
the total value of the commerce of 1890
by the sum of 50, 19l, 500. The commerce
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 the sum of $3.50, COG. 0i6 so that the
value of the total commerce of the last fis-
cal year exceeded the value of the commerce
of 1889 by S241, 49, $50. Our total COM
merce during the past fiscal year amount
ed to 81, 729. $780, S96
Import and Export Statistics.
1t is noted that there is an increase in
our imports of merchandise, 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
our imports of wool and manufactures of
silk and manufactures of hemp and jute
and manufactures of breadstuffs, and an
finals The total value of our imports of
merchandise during the last year was
SS44 ,90s, 49l. The total value of our ex-
ports of merchandise during the same pc
Rod was 1854, 425, 405, which shows an eX-
cess in favor of exports during the fiscal
year of $50. 5l9,9l4. There was also an
excess of exports of domestic merchan-
disc over such exports of the prior year of
$26, 94I 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 manufactures
of iron and steel.
Imports of Articles Duty Free.
Since the new tariff law has been in op-
Grafton, from Oct. q, 1890 to June so, 1891,
inclusive total Nalna nf rhs. inn, prrS
of merchandise was $3.50, 200, COS, as COM
pared with sos s69, 905, the value of such
exports for the corresponding 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 during the nine months ended
June 80, 1891, was 1855, 963 665, while the
value of such imports for the correspond
ing period of 1890 was Sos, 9S3, Si3, showing
an increase in the imports of free merchan-
disc during the past nine months of $50
979 1872.
Merchandise Subject to Tariff;
During TIE same period ended June So
1891, the imports of merchandise paying
duty, was of the value of 1854, 242, $40, as
compared with 1889, Isl. 0S2 for the CORE
spending period OF 1890; so it appears
there has been decrease during the last
nine months of the fiscal year 1891 in the
value of such imports of SOS, SAB co. II is
seen then that during the nine months
since the new tariff went into effect of the
total value of merchandise imported into
his country 46 % per cent. came in free,
W lie during the CORES pOuding period of
so q. o. were admitted free. In fact, it
appears the value of merchandise i'm
ported free during the last nine months
OF the past fiscal year was greater by S3G,
600 COO than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole Of 1890, and by
nearly $40, 600 900 than during the prior
year 1889.
The Business in Gold and Silver.
The exports of gold and silver during
the past fiscal year were Sos, 729 .9SS; and
the imports were $50, 2l2. 1874, an excess OF
export OF ST.. 5lG, 954 The exports of gold
during the last fiscal year were $50 363,
622 The imports of gold were SIS, 246, 5l2,
showing an excess OF exports of gold OF
SGS LILO, the largest excess of exports OF
gold of any year of our commerce.
There has been a large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The to-
tai number arriving was 555, 49G. as against
45I, 219 during the fiscal year 1890, showing
an increase during the last fiscal year OF
104 81. This increase is largely from the
following countries: Italy, 1884; Aus
tria- Hungary, IA SCI; Germany, q, 122
Russia, including Poland, rs, ~