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Show HEW TARIFF ACT I IS TRADE OF I PHILIPPINES 1 March of Civilization Through Insular Possessions Por-fl; Por-fl; trayed ih Report of Gen- H! eral Mclntyre. Hi PORTO RICAN TRADE Hi shows falling off Great Progress Made on Irri-gation Irri-gation System; Dominican : Customs Receipts Largest fl; in History. I WASHINGTON, Doc 0. Th march , of civilization through the Philippines 1 ' and Porto Rico the principal Amerl-, Amerl-, can insular possessions Is pictured in Hj: tho annual roport of Brigndior Gonoral Hi: Frank H. MclniyTO, chief of the bti- ' roau of insular affairs. One most interesting feature deals Hv with the effect upon tho insular poe- Hj sessions of the new tariff act. For H: the Philippines tho limitation upon the H j quantity of sugar and tobacco that may be exported to tho United States tt has been removed. Another measure Hi Cf reliof to Philippine business permits Hn exports to the United States by trans- . ehlpmont whereas the exporter had for- H' morly been limited to direct ehipmente. Export dutiee upon Philippine products ' which doprivod the American manufac- H: turer of Manila homp of a differential Hi -wore abolished. The income tax pro H' ' visions of the new tariff act were cx H; tonded to tho Philippines, but with ' the proviso that it should bo colloctod by Philippine officers and- belong to the 1 Philippine govommont. General Mclntyro regrets the failure of congress to enact a law permitting tho uso of foreign material to tho amount of 50 por cent in Philippine products entitled to free admission to the United States. Ho eayB this would have given a much-desired stimulus to tho embroidery and laoo Industry in the islands, which through the schools is being dovclopcd. Exports to the United States last year amounted to $19,S4S.8S5, and wore IS? per cent of tho total a compared j with 43 por cent in 1012. Sugar ship- menta, which wore the leading factor in this docline, show a failing off approximating ap-proximating $0,000,000 in value. Progress in Education. Steady and encouraging progress was made during the year in education, especially es-pecially in tho higher standard of instruction in-struction in English; in the bettor Bchool buildingB and grounds; In the sounder basis on which industrial instruction in-struction has been orgunizod, in tho furthor and very marked improvement in tho Amorican and Filipino personnel person-nel of the bureau; in tho efllcioncy of tho administrative side of the work and tho physical training of the pupils. Teachers from tho United States have been, almost without excoption, of excellent ex-cellent preparation, and with the improvement im-provement in tho quality of Amorican teachers, that of the Filipino teachers has kept paco. The lattor have been assigned to positions of greater responsibility respon-sibility and now 115 are serving as supervising and assistant supervising teachers, which number docs not include in-clude twenty-one Filipino industrial University. In view of the comploto organization organiza-tion of tho Philippine university with all of its collogcs, the policy ot eoud-ing eoud-ing Filipino students to the United States in largo numbers for their undergraduate un-dergraduate work is being discontinued and provision has been made for the appointment of a limitod numbor of fellows, who have completed their undergraduate un-dergraduate work to talto two to four-year four-year post graduate courses in Europo and Amorica. A.thlotica are being encourngod with favorable results, and in a far eastoru Olympiad in Manila last February in wfiich teams from China. Japan and the Philippines took part, the latter was victorious In overy contest excopt baseball. Porto Rican trade fell off last year $0,020,411 in Imports and $001,848 in exports out of a total trade of $30,-O0S,027. $30,-O0S,027. Although the sugar shipments wore 10,000 tons greater than during tho preceding year, reaching a total or 383,000 tone, the average pneo received $10 less per ton reduced tho total value by $5,000,000. Only 30.0 per cent of tho 890,000 porsons of eenool age in Porto Bico attonded school, but oven at that the total enrollment was 161,785 compared with 44,S61 at tho closo of tho Spanish Span-ish regime In 1010 over 08 por cent of the total electorate wero illiterate. Progress in Irrigation. Great progress was made on tho irrigation ir-rigation systom during the year, and it is indefinitely established that the total cost of tho project will not exceed ex-ceed $4,000,000. Tho sixth year of th-9 operation of tho American receivership of the Do'-minican Do'-minican customs ehowB the largest ro colnts of its history, tie gross receipts being $4,112,735. This is said to bo more remarkablo because of the political politi-cal disturbances in tho republic during dur-ing tho year und the volumo of foreign trade is continuing to expand. Amorican Amori-can goods constitute 02 por cont of all tho import?. |