Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
Prince Henry. of Germany.

| NcW OFk next IodtufudV. Ilc SeeHlS to be very much pleased at the visit before him, and the American re- public will give him cordial wei come
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis visited the capital of Mississippi last Saturday with the view of offering the famous Jefferson Davis family residence, known as Beauyoir, to the state at a nominal price, to be devoted to Confederate soldiers home. She has been offered $90,O00 for the prop erty, but prefers to take $10,000, and have 1t be used as above. A bill has been introduced in con- 1 gress by Representative Corliss for the laying of a cable to Hawaii and the Philippines. MT Corliss con tends that 1t should be made by an American manufacturer, laid by an American ship under the American flag and operated at actual cost for l the dissemination of knowledge, the proper direction of our army and navy and the advancement of our trade and commerce in the Pacifc.0
 The monthly statement of the imports and exports of the United States for January, shows as fol- lows: Merchandise, imports, $79,- 426, JAG, increase as compared with January, 1901, $10,000,00O; ex- ports, $126, ,o23,217, decrease ST. 300,000. Gold imports $1 ,4O4,787, decrease $2, 2,80o,000; exports $1,973,- 675, decrease $6,300,000. Silver i'm ports $2, ,187681, decrease $1,000- 900; exports $4,509,213, decrease $2S0,000. During the last year the imports of merchandise amounted to l $890, 0,538,976, an increase over the corresponding period in 1901 of | $72, 100000. The exports of mer- chandise for the year aggregated l 1,457, ,839, ,882, a decrease of $39,- 0OO,00O.
 The United States maintained it's 1 position as the leading exporting na- tion in the calendar year 1901. The l figures of the treasury bureau of
 
 statistics, just published, show the exports of each of the principal countries of the world at the latest available date, and clearly indicate that the exports of the United States were, during the year, larger than those of any other nation. The average monthly exportation in the year 1901 were: United States, $119, 9,840,333; United Kingdom, l s113,753,987; Germany, $90,242,- 900; France, $66, ,329; Neither lands, 56,79o,923; Austria Hunga- ry, $32, ,012,746, and Belgium, $2S,- l 67S,729 For the full calendar year l figures of the United States and | United Kingdom arc available They l show: United States, $1,43S,083,- 900; United Kingdom, $1,365, 5,047,- S43. The exports of the United States thus exceed by nearly $75,- 000,000 those of the United King dom.
 The industrial commission, in its report to congress, makes the fol- lowing recommendations on the subject of immigration. General revision and codifcation of the inn migration laws, including such ver- bal changes as are necessary to make the existing principles of leg islation effective. Increasing the head tax from $1 to $3. Effective inspection along the Canadian and 1 Mexican borders to be secured through establishment of designated frontier ports of entry by the secre- tary of the treasury. Exclusion and l deportation of anarchists. Renewal and continuance of the Chinese ex- clusion law. The commission also recommended that states abandon l the general property tax, and raise