Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-18
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE
For the Month of August Surpassed
All Records,
THE IMPORTATIONS ALSO SHOW
ED A MARKED INCREASE--SOAlE
STRIKING DETAILS OF THE
BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY so
FAR THIS YEAR, WITH COM
PARSONS.

Special to tbs Register.
WASHINGTON, d. c., September IL.
The foreign commerce of the United
States in the month of August, 1899, is
the largest in the history of that month.
The exports are nearly % per cent
phenomenal year 1898, and 80 per cent
higher than the average of August in
the years 1894 1895 and 1896, while for
the eight months Of the calender year
ending with August they are the high
est in our history. The total exports
for the eight months ending with Au-
gust, 1899, were 1872, 1872, against
S77S,632, 207 in the phenomenal year
1898, $641, 979, $3.50 in 1897, and $602, 1885,
472 in the great export year of 1892.
The importations for August also
show a marked increase, being $685.
71S,737, against S49,677,349 in August
last year, and $39,S4,605 in August Of
1897. While the details of the August
importations are not at hand. the de-
tails of the uly imports which have
recently been completed indicate that
the growth in importation is largely
in the class of materials used by manu-
facturers and in tropical food stuffs.
In the seven months ending with July
the importation of raw fibres for use
in manufacturing amounted to $13,260,-
$50, against $10,3S2,321 in the CORE
spending months of 1898 and s9,032,9
in the corresponding months of 1897.
Rubber importations in the seven
months of 1899 are $21, 190,323, against
SIS, 554, 1872 in the corresponding months
of 1897. Imports Of raw silk for use in
manufacturing amounted in the seven
months of 1899 to $20, 1877, against
$15,227 1903 in the corresponding seven
months of 1898 and $12,3S0. 100 in the
corresponding months of 1897.
This large increase in exports eX-
plains the increase in customs reve-
nues which has reduced the deficit for
the first two months of the. fiscal year
to about $4,000,000. August importa-
ton were abnormally large, and it is
doubtful whether the same rate will be
kept up through the remainder of the
fiscal year. AS internal revenue re-
mains practically stationary dependence
must be placed on an increase of dutia
BILE imports for the increase in revenue
so badly needed to meet the great cost
of the Philippine campaign. If such
imports do not show a steady increase
the treasury deficit cannot be reduced.
Thus the Republican administration,
whose policy of protection aims at linn
iting imports, is forced to rely on a very
considerable increase of imports to OBJ
tain revenue.
The growth in exports is in both
agricultural products and manufactures.
The August expectation of breadstuffs
was $25, 5S0,352 in 1899, against $751;
9O9,329 in August of 1898, $25, 13,491 in
August of 1897, and $14,618,733 in Au-
gust 1896. Of provisions the exporta-
tion of August 1899 was $15,584,755,
against SIS, 4S9,09S in August 1898, $12,-
4O0,566 in August 1897, and 10,4S9, 152
in August 1896. Mineral ellis also show
an increase, being for August, 1899,
$6,565,O09, against s5,01O,5O7 in August
1898, 1851 ,27S in August 1897, and S.
61S,276 in August 1896. Taking the
four great articles WHICH are named in
the advance statement of exports of
domestic products, breadstuffs, provis-
ions, mineral oils and cotton, the total
for the month of August was $685.
ASS, against $44, 558, $40 in August of last
year, S4S,3O5,O66 in August 1897, and
$36,631, ass in August 1896.
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