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Show IMPORTS EXCEEDED RECORD. Figures Just Made Public By the Bu- , . reau of Statistics. Washington. Imports exceeding by more than $114,000,000 thoso of any previous similar porlod came into tho United States during the first eleven months of the operation or tho Payne- O Aldrich tariff law, ending Juno 30 last. More than 49 per cent of these imports im-ports entered free of duty, being a larger percentage than in the corresponding corre-sponding period of any provlouB year except 1897, the closing year of tho Wilson tarlfT, and 1892 and 1893 and 1894, when sugar was admitted free under the McKlnloy law. .Customs recelp'B during the elovon " months of tho Payne tariff law wero i $302,822.1C1, exceeded only In 1907, when tho first elevon months brought In $307,053,381. These flgureB wore made public on Wednesday by the bureau of statistics of tho dopartment of commerce and labor. |