Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
MORE INFORMATION.
Treasury Department Gives Figures
on PHILIPPINES,


Washington, Dec. 1S.-(Special cor
respondence)-The prominence given
to the commerce between the United
States and the Philippine Islands
through the recent decision of the SUI
preme court and the necessity for leg
lslation on that subject lends espec.
it'll interest to some figures procured by
the treasury bureau of statistics rela-
tive to the present imports from the
Philippines and the constant demands
of the United States upon the tropics
for articles for daily requirement.
These figures show that the total value
OF imports from the Philippines in the
ten months ending with October, 1901,
We're S3,1S6,953 Or that sum only
$222,797 was dutiable and $2,964 1876
was free of duty. OF the dutiable i'm
ports $1SS,159 represented the value of
sugar, the value of all other dutiable
articles being S34,63S OF the free i'm
portations, $2,945,771 was manila
hemp, and all other free articles $1S,-
1856. The importation of hemp from
the Philippines in 1901 shows large
reduction compared with the cores
banding months of 1900, due in part
to the small production of hemp in the
islands during the crop year of 1900,
and in part to great reduction in
price. In the ten months of 1900 end
ing with October, 1886 tons of ma
Mia hemp imported was valued at So
225. PSI, and in the same months of
1901 20,579 tons of hemp imported
from the islands was valued at but 81
945,771, the decrease in price thus be-
iy,fr f,.r,, 49,,
in 1901 for the period under considera-
ton.
Part Sugar Plays.
The very small proportion of orr SUI
gar consumption, which the Philip
pine Islands, are supplying is shown
by comparison of the above figures
of sugar imported from the Philippines
with those of our total sugar importa-
lions during the year. The total i'm
portation of sugar into the United
States in the ten months ending with
October amounts to about 1000, 000,O 600
pounds. valued at about 100000, 000;
and of this enormous total, only H.
$4,000 pounds, valued at $13S159.
came from the Philippine Islands. In
other words, they have supplied dur
ms Liz ~ cSSll ySoi pDouI tuc-ullli Vi
one per cent of the total value of our
importations of sugar. The October
report of the bureau of statistics
shows that our importation of sugar
from all countries except Hawaii and
Porto Rico amounted TO 1886, 065 267
pounds, valued at S72,9S5,0S4. Tha re-
ports from the collector at Hawaii
show that there was shipped to the
United States from those islancs in
the ten months ending with October
1901, 645.095,290 pounds of sugar, val
ued at $24,454 ,076. Add to this the
amount shipped from Porto Rico and
our total importations of sugar during
the ten months will aggregate the fig
ures above named-4 900, 900 900
pounds, valued at $100000,O0O.
Our Relation to Tropics.
These figures of the sugar importa-
lions indicate in some degree the de-
pendence of the United States upon
the tropics for the requirements of
daily life. Of the $100,OOO,0O0 worth
of sugar imported into the United
States in the ten months of 1901, all
but about $12,000,000 worth came
from the tropics. During the same