The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-09
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS-
The President Reviews the
Events of the Year.
INTERESTING STATE DOCUMENT,
The Work of the Administration
Reviewed at Consider
able Length.

Ihfs Congress Recommended to Let the
Succeeding Body Do the Tariff Tinker
ing-ConsiderableA Attention Paid to the
Reports of the Heads of the Executive
Departments - Enforcement of the
Quarantine Regulations - Protection
Urged for Railway Employees other
Matters.
To THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT
ATIvEs:
In submitting my annual message to congress,
have great satisfaction in being able to say
that the general conditions affecting the com
mercal and industrial interests of the United
States are in the highest degree favorable A
comparison OF the existing conditions with
those of the most favored period in the history
adegree OF prosperity and so general diff usion
of the comforts of life were never before en-
country in 1860 was sl6, l5o, SiS,0oS. In 1890 it
amounted TO St2,6lO ON 900, an increase of PSI
ntsd States noIs s eae OF IL & IA yns
1874, an increase of 44S per cent; and it is
estimated that there will be about 1000 miles
of track added by the close of the year 1892
The official returns of the eleventh census and
those of the tenth census for seventy five lead
ing cities furnish the basis for the following
In 1880 the capital invested in manufacturing
was y, 2;2, S39,6IO
In 1880, the number of employees was 1,3Ol-
8SS
In 1890, the number of employees was 2,251,-
1874.
In 1880, the wages earned were 5n1.965,77S.
In 1890. the wages earned were Sl,.s2l, O.45f.
579,sN
ood = 1890, the value of the product was s4soo-
| am informed by the superintendent of the
census that the omission OF certain industries
In 1850 which are included i'll 1880 accounts in
part for the remarkable increase nov shown
But, after making full a II 'wances for diHeren
ces ofmethod and deductng the returns for all
industries i'll the census OF 1880, there remain in
the reports from these seven ty-five cities in
crease in the capital employed Of 81 522, ,G04;
wages earned of S6T,943,929 and in the
number of wage-earners employed of s56,S29.
The wage-earnings not only show an increased
aggregate, but an increase per capita from
1886 in 1880 to S547 in $780, or All per cent
The new industrial plants established since
reported in the American Economist, number
345, and the extension of existing plants 103;
the new capital invested amounts to $40, Az
050, and the number of additional employees to
1926. The Textile Won al for July, 1892 states
that during the first six months of the, present
calendar year 135 new factories were built of
which forty are cotton mills, forty eight knit
ting mills, twenty-six wooden mills, fifteen silk
mills, four plush mills and two linen
mills or the forty cotton mills twenty one
have been built in the southern states. Mr.; A.
B. shcprerson, of the New York Cotton Ex-
spindles in the union, Sept i, 1892 at 1520OOO6,
an increase of 100000 over the year
The mills IN ss f ottSn by
1892 ass, 00) bales increase of 1888 COO bales.
From the year 1869 to 1892 inclusive there has
been an increase in the consumption of cotton
IN Europe of 81 per cent, while during the same
period the increase in the consumption in he
United States has been about $50 per cent.
Tin-Plate Manufactures.
The report of Ira Aver special agent of the
treasury department., shows that at the date
of Sept. 30, 1892, there we're thirty-two com
panies manufacturing tin and terne plate in
the United States and fourteen cOmnanoS
building new works for such manufacture.
The estimated investment in buildings and
plants at the close of the fiscal year. June 80,
1893, II existing conditions We're to be con.
tinucd was S5GOO,OOO, and the estimated rate
The cua prodctoO of the Quarter peI endne
Sept. 81, 1892, was 1882, 725 pounds. The re-
port of Labor Commissioner Peck of New
York shows that during the year 1871, in about
six thousand manufacturing establishments in
that state embraced within the special inquiry
made by him. and representing sixty-seven diff
ferent Industries, there was n etincrease over
the year of 1890 of S3l 35 l3O6 8 in the value of
the product, and of S6317, a25 90 in the amount
OF wages paid. The report of the commissioner
of labor for the state of Massachusetts shows
that 8 745 ndustr es in that state paid S129 49,
IN s6 an igc sHe ee of and G that
there was an increase of 1892, 400 in the
amount Of capital, and of 7,3i6 in the number
of persons employed in the same period. Dur
ing the last six months of the year 1891, and the
first six months of 1892, the total production of
pig-iron was ., 7108l9 tons, as against 9.C29 703
tons in the year $780, which was the largest an
nual production ever attained, For the same
twelve months of 1891. &s the production of
Bessemer ingots was 1885, S1 tons, an increase
of 1S9, 10 gross tons over the previous year,
the production being 3,GSS 81 gross tons in 1890.
The production of Bessemer steel rails for the
first six months of 1892 was 1874 gross tons,
as against 7l2,OoO gross tons during the last six
months OF the year 1891. The total value OF
our foreign trade exports and manufactured
during the last fiscal year 81 1854 $50 $40,
increase of Sis, 283, G04 over the previous fiscal
year. The average annual value of our imports
and pXpOrta of mprclan0iSp for the ten fiscal
years prior to 1891 was ", 457, 320l9 1t will be
observed that our foreign trade for 1872 ex-
sol, an increase of 27.47 per cent. The signia-
canoe and value OF this increase are shown by
1891 was wholly in the valne of exports, for
there was decrease in the value OF imports Of
$17,5l376.
Value of Exports.
The value of exports during the fiscal
year 1892 reached the highest figure in the his
tory of the government amounting to 81, 030,-
27S, liS, exc. eding by Sl45 97 1913 the exports of
$202,S15,6S6. A comparison of the value of our
exports for 1892 with the annual average for
the ten years prior. to 1891 shows an excess Of
our imports of merchandise for 1892, which was
SS29, 409, 462 also exceeded the annual average
value OF the ten years prior to 1891 by Sl35,215-
$40. During the fiscal year 1892 the value of inn
ports free of duty amounted to S457, $3.50 65S the
YaSe the OF
disc entered free of duty in 1892 was 55.35 per
cent OF the total value of imports, as compared
with 4335 per cent in 1891 and 1886 per cent in
1890. In our coastwise trade most encourag-
ing development is in progress, there having
been in the last four years an increase of 10 per
cent. In internal commerce the statistics show
that no such period of prosperity has ever he.
fore existed. The freight carried in the coast
wise trade of the great lakes in 1890 aggregated
1885, $50 TONS
On the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers
and the tributaries in the same year the traffic
aggregated 20 405,0i6 tons andthe total vessel
tonnage passing through the Detroit river dur
ing that year was II, $4,000. The vessel tonnage
entered and cleared in the foreign trade of
London during 1890 amounted to b. 4S0, 76I tons,
and of Liverpool 10.94l, 800 TONS total for these
two great shipping ports of "A, AZ 1858 TONS only
slightly in excess of the vessel tonnage passing
through the Detroit river. And IL should be
said that the season OF the Detroit river was
but 22S days. while. of course in London and
Liverpool the season was OF the entire year.
The vessel tonnage passing through the st:
Mary's canal of the fiscal year 1872 amounted
to 9,S2S, s7i tons and the freight tonnage of the
Detroit river is estimated for the year at b.
100000 TONS against - 2O9,Gl9 tons in 1891. Tho
aggregate traffic railroads for the year
1lfu tod tn Of frpipht