No. EXHIBIT D'.-Estimated revenues and expenditures, &c.—Continued. 1 Imperial Diet.. Extraordinary expenditures. 3 Imperial, department of the interior..... 2 Foreign office 4 Post-office and telegraph departments 5 Printing office of the empire 6 War department 7 Navy department 8 Judiciary of the empire.. 9 Treasury department 10 Administration and interest of the debt of the empire. 11 Auditing and comptrolling tribunal 12 Administration of railroads 13 Expenditures in consequence of the war against France. Total extraordinary expenditures Total regularly occurring expenditures. Grand total of expenditures Grand total of revenues Amount. $31, 273 93, 916 2, 191, 771 7,140 12,515, 887 2,706, 907 47, 600 876, 023 26, 180 1,904 824,209 404, 182 19,726,992 122, 314, 124 142, 041, 116 142, 041, 116 EXHIBIT E1.-Table showing the revenues arising from customs and taxes collected in common in the German Empire during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1881. Since the 1st of October last an act, under date of July 1, 1881, has entered into effect relative to the collection of a stamp tax on all shares, annuities, bonds, bills, accounts, and lottery tickets. This act is one of the three bills which Prince Bismarck, in last spring's session, submitted to the Reichstag for the continuation of the tax reform planned by him. The two other bills to increase the brewing tax and to collect a tax from young men who had not been drawn for military service, did not find the Reichstag's approval. In the memorial accompanying these three bills the imperial chancellor refers to the financial systems adopted by other nations, especially by the United States, in which he states that Germany, as to the collection of indirect taxes, had remained far behind other countries. Since the adoption of a national trade policy in 1879, on the basis of protective customs, it has been very difficult to the German Government to regulate anew its commercial relations with Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and particularly with Austria-Hungary. In the following I will give a brief account of new commercial treaties and conventions between the German Empire and other countries: 1. With Austria-Hungary a new commercial treaty was concluded on the 23d of May last; it took effect on the 1st of July last, and is to re main in force up to the 31st of December, 1887. After the 1st of January, 1883, on due notice being given, the treaty shall cease to be valid one year after the day of notice. 2. With Italy the treaty of December 31, 1865, has been prolongated up to the end of this year. 3. With Belgium, by a convention dated the 30th of May last, it has been agreed that the commercial treaty of May 22, 1865, shall, with the exception of Articles VII and VIII, remain in force until the expiration of a year from the day of giving notice by either of the contracting parties. 4. With Switzerland a new commercial treaty has been concluded which went into effect the 1st of July last, and is to remain valid up to the 30th of June, 1886. With Greece a new consular convention was concluded in the month of July last. CENSUS. The definite and full results of the census in 1880 for the German Empire have not yet been published. The total population of Prussia is given at 27,278,911 souls (Berlin alone having 1,222,504), of which 17,645,462 confess the Evangelical faith; 9,205,136 confess the Catholic faith; 363,790 are Jews; 42,517 are of other denominations; 22,006 profess no religious belief. It may be of interest to learn some figures respecting GERMAN SOCIAL STATISTICS. In 1879 there were 335,113 marriages; 930,194 males and 876,546 females, in all 1,806,741, were born, of which 78,034 males and 73,923 females were illegitimate children. There died, males, 636,997; females, 577,645; in all 1,214,642; consequently the excess of births over deaths was, males, 293,197; females, 298,901; in all 592,098. During 1880, 1,969 certificates of naturalization were issued by the several German states to 963 families and 1,006 single persons; from the United States there were 172 males and 76 females. CONDITION OF PEOPLE. Dr. Engel, director of the royal Prussian statistical bureau, has recently called attention to the usefulness and importance of household budgets to be made up as frequently and regularly as possible, statistics being the art of measuring the national wealth quickly and reliably. As it is known from numerous household budgets that about 60 per cent. of all expenditures is for food, about 15 per cent. for lodging, and about 15 per cent. for clothing, it is very easy to calculate what sums the German people receive, or at least are compelled to receive during one year to provide for the necessaries of life, and what sums are left for purposes of culture of mind and recreation. Statistics of consumption of the German people could be arrived at only by roughly estimating the average expense of a German household at 240 marks ($57) a year, making a total amount per year of ten and a half milliards of marks for fortyfour millions of Germans. To acquire ten and a half milliards a year would necessitate a large capital, which, as expenses for education, contained in the totality of the nation, were to be rated at 44,000,000 multiplied by 25, multiplied by 240, which equals 264 milliards of marks, taking an average age of twenty-five years and computing the cost of living at 240 marks per year. Mr. R. Boeckh, director of the Berlin bureau of statistics, has had the annexed exhibits F1, G1, and H', compiled in order to illustrate the expenditures of five families and three single persons, both of the working and the middle class. In this connection I beg to annex also a table (I') showing the average wholesale prices of staple articles at different places in Germany, both in 1879 and 1880, as prepared by the imperial statistical bureau. From the returns of the same authority Exhibit K, showing German emigration for ten years, is compiled, from which will be seen that during that period 934.5 of every 1,000 emigrants went to the United States. The emigration in 1881 is reported to go on on a still larger scale. Germany has not food and labor enough for her children. German life insurance companies in 1880.-Stock capital for security, 523,532,919 marks; total assets, 624,168,056 marks; showing an increase of 35,152,432 marks as against the close of 1879. Total premiums received, 75,981,251 marks (5,530,699 marks more than in 1879). Payment of sums assured, 34,083,437 marks; carried to the reserve fund, 29,464,727 marks; dividends paid in 1880, 9,773,252 marks; number of persons insured, 651,187, with a total sum of 2,252,369,562 marks; averaging 738 marks per capita. The subterranean telegraph net of the empire is now completed; it connects 220 towns with one another, and extends from Königsberg in the northeast of Germany to Strassburg in Alsace; from Breslau in the southeast to Emden in the northwest, and from Thorn in the east to Aix-la Chapelle in the west of Germany. The laying of the first cable, leading from Berlin to Halle, was commenced in March, 1876, and the last portion of the net, extending from Cologne to Aix-la-Chapelle, was laid three months ago. The laying of the entire amount of cable took nearly fifty-eight months, and cost 30,200,000 marks. Seventy cable lines have been sunk in rivers. Postal. The financial results of the German post and telegraph administration from the 1st of January, 1876, up to the 31st of March, 1880, were as follows, on the average, per year: Receipts.. GERMAN RALWAYS. Marks. 119, 669, 000 110,632, 000 9,037,000 The state railways had a network of iron roadway of more than 18,180 kilometers (11,272 miles) in the month of September, 1881; the gross earnings from January to the end of September being 382,238,992 marks. Private railway companies under state administration, 3,682 kilometers (2,282.8 miles) in operation; 100,387,809 marks gross earnings for nine months. Other private companies with own administration, 7,035.26 kilometers (4,361.7 miles) in operation, and 108,760,854 marks gross earnings. Total of all German railroads during nine months: in operation, 28,897 kilometers (17,916.5 miles); gross earnings $138,368,119 (581,387,655 marks), netting an increase of 184 kilometers. operated, and $621,067 earnings over the amounts of the same nine months of the preceding year. METEOROLOGY. Table L', showing atmospheric pressure, temperature, &c., of the year at the meteorological station at Berlin, is here annexed. EXHIBIT L'.-Table showing atmospheric pressure, temperature, &c., of the year 1880, at the meteorological station at Berlin. There has been much labor bestowed in gathering the statistical information contained this report, and in translating, collating, and preparing the same. It will be seen that it contains several tables giving statistical information upon subjects which have not been heretofore reported upon, but I believe them all to contain information which will be of interest to the department and the people of our country. I am unable to give any clear statement as to the general condition of trade in the various consular districts within this consulate-general's district, as some of the consuls have as yet failed to send in their annual trade report. Presuming that permission will be granted me to visit the different consulates in accordance with my request in my dispatch No. 12, I have concluded to delay reporting upon the needs and condition of such consulates until such visit can be made. |