The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-07
HARRIS0N'S MESSAGE.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT AS SENT
TO CONGRESS.

Change-Subsidies for the Merchant
Marine Advocated - Non-Partisan
Apportionments for Congress Urged.
No Sign of alarm Over the Enormous
Demands for Pensions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Following is the
text of the annual message sent to congress
to-day by President Harrison:
t. the Senate and House of REPRESENTATIVES:
In submitting my annual message to congress
have great satisfaction in being able to say
that the general conditions affecting the com
mercial and industrial interests OF the United
States are In the greatest degree favorable. A
comparison OF the existing conditions with
those of the most favored period In the history
the country will, l believe, show that SO high a
degree of prosperity ana so general difference
of the comforts of life were never before en-
joyed by our people
The total wealth Of the country in 1850 was
SIS, So, $751; 6s in is9Oit amounted to $62,610,-
100000, an increase Of 251 per cent.
The total mileage of railways in the United
States in 1850 was 30,62C; in 1890 it was 1874
an increase of 44S per cent, and 1t is estimated
that there will be about 400O miles of track
added BY the Gloss OF the year 1899
The official returns of the eleventh census
and those of the tenth census for seventy-ive
leading cities furnish the basis for tire following
comparisons:
was 81, 232 S39,G10. In 1890 the capital invested
In manufacturing was 81. 900 935, SS4. In 1880
the number OF employees was .,30l, 3ss In 1890
the number OF employees was 2 25l. l34 In 1880
the wages earned were $500, g85, rs. In 1890 the
wages earned were Sl,22l, l70,Q5i In 1880
the value OF the product was 81, l,579, S99 In
1890 the value of tho product was S4s60 ESQ, s37.
lam informed by the superintendent of the
census that the omission OF certain industries IN
1850 which were included in 1890 accounts in
part for the remarkable increase thus shown,
but, after making full allowance for the differ
ence of method and deducting the returns for
all the industries not included in the census of
1880, there remain in, the reports from these
seventy five cities an increase in the capital en-
ployed Of S1,522, 745,60i, in the value of
product Of $3,O2i,236, l66, in wages earned
of S677, 9I3, 929, and in the number
of wage earners employed of S56,029. ; he wage
earnings not only show an increased aggregate
but an increase per capita from $3.50 IN 1880 to
S547 in 1890, or ALL per cent.
The new industrial plants established since
Oct. 6, 1890, and up to Oct 22, 1892 as partially
reported in the 4ne lean Economist number S45
and the extension of existing plants, 10S; the
new capital invested amounts to $40. 449, $50
and the number of additional employees to
1925.
NEW FACTORIES.
The Tertile World for July. 1892, states that
during the first six months Of the present calen-
dar year 1856 new factories were built, OF which
0are cotton mills, Is knitting mills, 2B wooden
mills, 10 silk mills, plush mills, aud 2 linen
mills. OF the 40 cotton mills, 81 have be N built
III the southern states. MIR. A. b. Shepperson
of the New York Cotton Exchange estimates
the number of working spindes IN the United
States on Sept. /, 1892 at 49, 200 COO an increase
of 10000 over the year 1891. The consumption
of cotton by American mills In 1891 was 3 1885,
600 bales; in la92, LOCO bales, an
crease OF $4,000 bales. From the year
1869 to 1892, inclusive there has been an increase
IN the consumption OF cotton in Europe of %
per cent, while during the same period the in
creased consumption III the United states has
been about 80 per cent.
The report of Ira Aver, special agent of the
treasury department shows that at tue date of
Sept. 80, 1899. there were 30 companies manu-
featuring tin aud terne plate in the United
States and II companies building new works for
such manufacture. The estimated investment
in buildings and plsnts AT the close of the fiscal
year, June 80, 1893, if existing conditions were
To be continued, was S5.00j00J; aud the esti-
mated rate of production 300 0O0 900 pounds per
annum The actual production for the quarter
ending Sept. 80. 1892, was 1882 725 pounds.
PECK's LABOR REPORT.
The report of Labor Commissioner Peck of
New YORK shows that duriCg the year 1891, in
about 5000 manufacturing establishments in
that state embraced WITHIN the special inquiry
made by him and representing 81 different in
dustrieE, there was a net Increase over the year
1890 OF S3l 35 13J DIS in the value of the product
and of S6,S77,925 90 IN the amount of wages
paid. The report of ths commissioner of labor
for the state Of Massachusetts, shows that j, 745
industries in that state paid S,20.416,2l6 in
wages during the year 1891. against Si26 03O, 303
in 1880 an increase of S3,S35, 945, and that there
was an increase OF 81, 1882, 400 in the amount of
capital and OF 7,34G IN the number of persons
employed in the same period.
PIG IRog.
During the last six months of the year 1891
and the first six months OF 1892 the total pro-
duction of pig iron was g. 40 $40 tons as against
800 703 tons in the year 1920, which was the
largest annual production ever attained. For
the same twelve months Of 1S0t- %, thefproduc-
ton or Ressemer ingots was SIS, 581 tons, an in
crease or 1870 gross tons over the previously
unprecedented yearly production or 365SSfl
gross tons in 1890. The production of Besse-
mer steel rails for the first six months Of 1899
fyro tODe aS inst
tons during the last six months of the year 1891.
ExAoRTs AND IMPORTS.
The total value.of our foreign trade exports
and imports of merchandise during the last
fiscal year was 1851 $50 go an increase of
$l2S. 2S3 604 over the last fiscal year The
average annual value OF our Imports and ex-
ports Of merchandise for the ten fiscal years
prior to 1891 was $!,451, 1922 0l9 1t will be OBJ
this annual average value by S400 35s, 59l. an in.
crease of q. ii per cent. The significance and
value of this increase are shown by the fact
that the excess in the trade of 1892 over 1891
was whollys in the value of exports for there
was decrease in the value of imports of S17,;
5I3,754.
The value of our exports during the fiscal year
1892 reached the highest figure in the history Of
the government amounting to 81, 030, 278 148:
exceeding by Sl46 f97, 1913 the exports of 1891,
and exceeding the value ofimports by S202, 875,
$50. A comparison of the value of our exports
for 1892 with the annual average Tor the ten
years prior to 1897 shows an increase Of $780,
1881, or 81 IS per cent. The value of our i'm.
ports of merchandise for 1892. which was $s29,
400, 462, also exceeded the annual average value
Of the ten years prior to 1891 by S135, 2l5, $40.
During this fiscal year 1899 the value of imports
free Of duty amounted to 1857, 999,65S, the
largest aggregate in the history of our com
merce. The value of the imports of merchan-
disc entered free Of duty in 1892 So 35 per
cent. of the total value OF imports as compared
with 43. 36 per cent. in 1891, and SO 66 per cent
in 1890
CosTwIsE TRADE.
In our coastwise trade a most encouraging
development is in progress, there having been
in the last four years an increase Of IS pei
cent.
In the internal commerce the statistics show
that no such period OF prosperity has ever be-
fore existed. The freighls carried in the coast
wise trade of the great lakes of 1880 aggre-
gated %, 295 1853 tons.
On the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers
and tributaries in the same year the traffic ag
gregated 2940o, 046 tons, and the total. vessel
tonnage passing through tue Detroit river dur
ing that year was 2l,6S4000 tons The
vessel tonnage entered and cleared In the
foreign trade of London during 1890 amounted
to 13,4So767 tons, and of Liverpool 10, 94l, S0(
tons, total for these two great shipping ports
or "a Az, SOS TONS only slightly in excess of the
vessel tonnage passing through the Detroit
river. And it should be said that the season
Tor the Detroit river was but 22S days, while, OIL
course, In London and Liverpool, the season
was for the entire wear. The vessel TONNAGE