The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-26
West Sunday School Excursion to AT
lantic City Thursday July 1st. Sl.25.
Our WASHINGTON Letter.

| WASHINGTON, juno 70, lS9i:-Ine ruSn
| of foreign goods into the country to evade
the increased duties which the new tariff
law is expected to impose seems likoly to
continue up to the very day upon which 1t
| goes into effect. The June receipts of tho
| Treasury have averaged over u million
dollars day and the Indicate MS are that
| the importations this month will be heav
| Ter than in any preceding month except
| those Of April, which were more than 100
| million dollars in value.
The Mny importatlons were in round
| numbers 50 million dollars in value and
| 1t is probable that those of June will con-
| siderably exceed thoss of last month. The
| prediction made by Chairman Dngley
months ago that the importers would have
nearly years supply of certain classes Of
foreign goods in tho market before the
now, thrift act could 60 into effect seems.
likely to be realized. The importations of
March, April May and June of this year
average about So million dollars per
month, while those of tho corresponding
months of last year average but little
over 55 millions per month.
The effect of this enormous importation
of goods upon which duties are to be col
lccted under the new law will be felt the
ncment that act goes into effect by u sus-
pension OF importations of that class Of
articles and consequent falling off in the
customs revenue. The customs receipts in
April Of the present year were more than
double those Of the corresponding month
Of last year and those for May and June
have nearly kept pace with those of April
1t is to the articles which will pay q
high rate of duty under the new law that
the importers are giving their attention
now and the consequence will be that the
class Of goods from which the greatest
revenues are exepected under the new law
will have accumulated in this country In
slch enormous quantities that importa-
tions of revenue producing articles Will
almost entirely cease when the new act
goes into effect, until the stocks of these
goods now lying in warehouses by hun.
dreds of millions of dollars in value shall
have been exhausted.
A statement Just issued by the Treasury
Department covering the importations OF
the month OF April, gives some idea of the
abnormal importations now going on
and the effect they will have upon the
revenues when the new law goes into
effect While there has been disposition
on the part of Democrats to assume that
the tariff on agricultural productions is u
humtug and does not effect impOrtations
at all 1t is nevertheless fact that 1870. .95S
bushels of wheat were imported in April
of the present year against 4, 6,43l in April
Of last year and that the quantity of bar.
ley imported In April 1897 is double Of
that of 1895.
Another striking illustration in regard
to farm products Is found in tho fact that
while the class Of cattle which Is and are
likely to remain upon the free list has not
increased at all in impOrtatiOns, the num-
Der of dutlable cattle imported in April
1897 was nearly five time, as great as in
April, 1895. being in numbers, 81, $40
against 49, Ill in April of last year In
the item Of Crude tarteri now upon the
r.. 1. I.,E 70 hN Nln tha
dutiRble list by the new law the April
impo tations moro than doubled the cor
responding month of last year.
The quantity of ChiCOry root imported
in April, 1897, in view Of the prospective
imposition of II duty upon it, was nearly six
times as much as that imported i'll April,
1896. Tho prospect that certain grades OF
raw cotton are to DO placed upon the
dutable list is already being fell, the April |
inlportations being nearly 10 million
pounds against million pounds Of last |
year.
inc prospect that hides would be placed |
Oh the dutiable list has also had a marked |
effect in increasing tho importations Of |
this class of foreign products, the April |
importations of hides s.amounting TO Is, 397,- !
lUB pounds against SrbfV, w pounds IN |
April of last year.
The importations of leather and manu- |
factures from leather also doubled. Our |
Chinese and Japanese friends who seem to |
have been on the alert with reference to |
our tariff generally evidently took the |
alarm early in the year, for the quantity |
of rico imported in April amounted to over
20 million pounds in the dutiahlo class
against 6, 700, ,OOO pounds in the correspond.
ing month Of last year The prospective |
imposition of duty on tea had It's effect
The number Of pounds imported IN April |
being 6,3T2 &GC against 1851, 7+l iu April OF