Congressional Serial Set Volume 3608 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... the increase. The figures of one railroad's business tell the story plainly: Net increase, 1,596,412 tons. Statistics from reliable sources give the business from St. Louis through El Paso and Laredo, only, as i 3,3 59,647 pounds for the year 1897. The establishment of a commercial museum has long been considered a movement which would result beneficially. It is proper to record the formation of such an organization by some of our most enterprising men. The countries south of us like to patronize countries who patronize them; the spirit of reciprocity was never so strong as now. In increasing our exports, manv of our large houses have become direct importers of raw materials from South and Central America, instead of getting these commodities through European or New York agents. Mexico now sends to the United States 75 per cent of her exports, as the last statistics show. VENEZUELA. CUSTOMS TARIFF FOR 1897-1898. Number 30.--Third edition--Continued from March Bulletin. 7.--Class VII. Duty.--J bolivars per kilogram. Fans of all kinds. Bitters not otherwise mentioned, in whatever receptacle. Playing cards. Sword sticks and sticks with a mechanism for firing. Purses of linen or cotton. Stockings, socks, fringes, tassels, lace, ribbons, bands, tapes, trimmings, plushes, caps, mantles, capes, waistbands, bows, epaulettes, list shoes, gloves of wool or of wool mixed with cotton. Boots and shoes, only cut out or without soles, and rugs of sheepskin. Shirts, made up, of cotton, with no parts of linen. Woven uppers for sandals. Rugs, carpets, and all other articles of crochet, except those of silk. Chasubles, viaticum cases, altar cloths, copes, dalmaticas, stoles, maniples, communion cloths, bands, and other ecclesiastical vestments and church ornaments. Ci...