Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
FOREIGN COMMERCE.

FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Interesting Figures From the Bureau or
Statistics-Enects of the New Tariff
Great Increase of Immigration.
WASH NGToN, July 29.-The bureau
of statistics of the treasury department
has issued a summary statement and
review of the foreign commerce and
immigration of the United States dur
ing the fiscal year ended June so. 1891.
and 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 CORE
spending nine months of the preceding
fiscal year.
The statement says that tho total
value of the commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history of
the government and exec ded the total
value of the commerce of 1890 by SS2,-
191, S03 The commerce of 1890 was the
largest for any year in the history OF
the government up to that time, eI-
ceeding the commerce of the K-ior year
by S159, COG, O63 The total commerce
during the past fiscal year amounted to
81, 729, $50, SOC. During the year there
was an increase in imports of merchan-
disc 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 a decline in the value of imports
of wool and manufactures thereof, silk
and manufactures thereof, hemp and
jute and manufactures thereof, bread
stuffs and animals
The total value of imports of mer-
chandise during the last year was SS44.-
9O5, 49I The total value of exports of
merchandise during the same period
was 1854, 424, 05S, which shows an excess
in favor of exports during the year of
$50, 1894 There was also an excess
of exports of domestic merchandise
over imports of the prior year of S26, "a, =
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 manufact-
ures thereof. iron and steel and manu-
features thereof.
The value of the leading articles of
export from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
$3.50, 7OS, SOS; breadstuffs. S127, SOS. O92,
and provisions, S13S. 179, 6SS.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation, from October 1890. to June
80, 1891, inclusive, the total value of the
imports of merchandise was $3.50, 2O6,
| COS. as compared with S59s, 769. 9O5, the
value of such imports for the CORE
| spending 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 dur
IL
was S295, 963, 655, while the value of
such imports for the corresponding
| period of 1890 was sos, 963, S73, showing
| an increase in the imports of free
| merchandise during the past nine
| months of $50. 979, 972 During the same
period ended June 3d. 1891, the imports
of merchandise paying duty was of the
value of 1884, 242, $40, as compared with
$3.50, 7S6, 032 for the corresponding period
of 1890, SO that it appears there has
been a decrease during the last nine
months of the fiscal year of 1891 in the
| value of dutia BILE imports of S55, 543, goa
ut 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 import
ed into this country 46. 90 per cent
came in free, while during the CORE
spending period of 1890. "a. go 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, OOO,-
600 than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole of 1890, and
nearly $40. 600, 600 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80,
1882
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were S10S, 729, 2SS,
and the imports were $50. 212. 33A an ex-
cess of exports of S72. SIG, 954 The ex-
ports Of gold during the last fiscal year
were $50, 1868. 622. The imports of gold
were SIS, GAG. sig, showing an excess Of
exports of gold of SOS, III, 11O-the
largest in any year.
There has been a 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 ifs
cal year 1890. showing an increase dur
ing the last fiscal year of 1927 This
increase is largely from the following
countries: Italy, 23,s54; Austria-Hun-
gary. 1861; Germany. 81, 122; Russia,
including Poland, 2S. 245.