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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



florins; woolen goods,! 7,900,000 florins; paper and 

 paper manufactures, 17,400,000 florins: iron manu- 

 factures and iron, 12,500,000 florins ; leather goods, 

 11,700,000 florins; minerals, 10,100,000 florins: 

 feathers, 9,900.000 florins; wool, 9,400,000 florins; 

 linen yarn, 7,300,000 florins; silk goods, 6,500,000 

 florins; wine, 5,400,000 florins; flour, 3,400,000 

 florins. The imports of gold and silver coin and 

 bullion in 1894 were 37.639.940 florins, compared 

 with 150.391,714 florins in 1893, and the exports 

 were 27,361.456 florins, compared with 20.307,275 

 florins. Hungary's exports of cereals in 1894 were 

 171,041,000 florins, and of cattle 140,050.000 florins 

 out of a total merchandise export of 562,564,000 

 florins, and out of imports amounting to 546,278,- 

 000 florins textiles came to 190,000,000 florins. < >f 

 the total imports, 81 per cent, came from Austria, 

 5 per cent, from Germany, and the rest from Servia, 

 France, Switzerland, and Italy. Of the exports 

 from Hungary. 72 per cent, went to Austria, 13 per 

 cent, to Germany, and 2 per cent., consisting of 

 flour and barley, direct to Great Britain. 



Navigation. The Austro-Hungarian merchant 

 navy in 1893 comprised 203 steamers, of 129,567 

 tons, and 11,320 sailing vessels of all kinds, of 125.- 

 919 tons. Of the total of 11,523 vessels, 249, of 194,- 

 657 tons, were engaged in ocean commerce ; 1,722, 

 of 38,686 tons, in the coasting trade ; and 9,552, of 

 22.143 tons, were fishing craft. 



The number of vessels entered at Austrian ports 

 during 1893 was 82,295, of 9.517,265 tons, while 82,- 

 146, of 9,514,087 tons were cleared. At Hungary's 

 port of Fiume 7,170 vessels, of 1,070,625 tons, were 

 entered and 7,196. of 1,072,176 tons, were cleared. 

 Of the vessels visiting the Austrian ports 85 per 

 cent., of the tonnage 89 per cent., belonged to Aus- 

 tria, and of the other 15 per cent, of the vessels the 

 greater number were Italian, British coming next. 



Communications. The mileage of railroads in 

 Austria in 1895 was 10,100 miles, and in Hungary 

 8,217 miles, a total of 18,317 miles. Of the Austrian 

 lines, 4,950 miles belonged to the Government, which 

 administered in addition 589 miles of privately 

 owned roads, while 4,561 miles were still managed 

 by the companies owning the lines. In Hungary 

 6,725 miles belonged to the state and 1,492 miles 

 were owned and operated by companies. The cap- 

 ital expended in building the Austrian railroads 

 amounted in 1893 to 2,974.905,000 florins. There 

 were 97,305,000 passengers and 90,904,000 tons of 

 freight carried in Austria in 1893, when the gross 

 receipts were 242,072,000 florins and operating ex- 

 penses 137,142,000 florins. In Hungary 95,582,000 

 persons and 124,460,000 tons of freight were trans- 

 ported, yielding a gross revenue of 102,591,000 flor- 

 ins, while the working expenses amounted to 53,- 

 702,000 florins. The railroads built in Bosnia and 

 Herzegovina have a length of 429 miles. 



The Austrian telegraph lines have a length of 

 28,957 miles, with 82,780 miles of wire ; the Hun- 

 garian lines a length of 12,473 miles, with 35,320 

 miles of wire ; the Bosnian lines a length of 117 

 miles, with 4,262 miles of wire. There were 12,602,- 

 632 messages sent over the Austrian, 9.969.844 over 

 the Hungarian, and 531,269 over the Bosnian wires 

 in 1893. 



The Austrian post office carried 681,158,720 let- 

 ters and postal cards, 98.376,430 samples and printed 

 inclosures, and 76,173,400 newspapers in 1894, when 

 the receipts were 37,977.711 florins, and expenses 

 34,514,115 florins. The Hungarian postal traffic in 

 1893 was 155.433,600 stamped letters and cards, 24,- 

 518,980 samples and printed packets, and 74,739,772 

 newspapers ; receipts, 15,253,052 florins ; expenses, 

 10,756,326 florins. 



Austria. The Austrian Empire is composed of 

 16 provinces, each of which has its own diet to leg- 



islate upon matters connected with local taxation, 

 agriculture, education, charity, religion, and public 

 works. The national legislative body is the Reichs- 

 rath, which consists of a House of Lords, made up 

 of 21 archdukes. 67 feudal lords, 17 prince bishops, 

 archbishops, and cardinals, and 120 life members, 

 and a House of Deputies, of 353 members, elected 

 for six years by rural communes, towns, chambers 

 of commerce, and landed proprietors. 



The Council of Ministers, as constituted on Sept. 

 29, 1895, is as follows : Minister-President and 

 Minister of the Interior, Count Casimir Badeni ; 

 Minister of Finance, Ritter von Belinski : Min- 

 ister of Public Instruction and Ecclesiastical Af- 

 fairs, Baron Gautsch von Frankenthurn : Minister 

 of National Defense, Field-Marshal Count Zeno 

 von Welsersheimb ; Minister of Justice, Count 

 Johann Gleispach; Minister of Agriculture, Count 

 Ledebiir Wicheln ; Minister of Commerce and Na- 

 tional Economy, Baron Hugo Glanz von Eicha. 



Finances. The revenue of the Austrian Govern- 

 ment in 1895 was estimated at 638,985.577 florins, 

 aiid the expenditure at 636,527,870 florins. The es- 

 timate of ordinary revenue is 621,592,945 florins, of 

 which direct taxes produce 111,478.000 florins; in- 

 direct taxes, 301,611.540 florins ; customs. 45,324.880 

 florins; railroads. 89,074,560 florins ; posts and tele- 

 graphs, 38,473,000 florins ; forests and domains, 

 5,301,700 florins ; mines, 7,103.470 florins ; law 

 courts, 1,056,680 florins ; education and worship, 

 6.214,553 florins : state properties. 4,884,462 florins; 

 and various receipts, 11,120,000 florins. Of the di- 

 rect taxes the land tax amounts to 35,690.000 flor- 

 ins, the house tax to 33.439,000 florins, the industry 

 tax to 11,858,000 florins, the income tax to 29,395,- 

 000 florins, and other taxes to 1,096,000 florins. Of 

 the sum expected from indirect taxes, excise gives 

 111.994.870 florins; salt, 21,575,110 florins; toba<-<--, 

 89.353,550 florins : stamps, 21.289.500 florins ; judi- 

 cial fees, 38,376,000 florins ; the lottery, 16,440,000 

 florins ; and other taxes, 2,582,510 florins. 



The ordinary expenditures amount to 604,495,485 

 florins, of which 4,650,000 florins are for the im- 

 perial household, 77.065 florins for the imperial 

 Cabinet chancery, 731,352 for the Reichsrath, 22,- 

 600 florins for the Supreme Court, 1,187,753 florins 

 for the Council of Ministers, 18.913.139 florins for 

 the Ministry of the Interior. 20,690.416 florins for 

 the Ministry of National Defense. 1.889.885 florins 

 for the direction of the Ministry of Education and 

 Worship, 14.821.621 florins for educational estab- 

 lishments, 7,413,510 florins for religious worship, 

 14,376,762 florins for the Ministry of Agriculture, 

 90.171.638 florins for the Ministry of Finance. 21,- 

 612,200 florins for the Ministry of' Justice, 108.652,- 

 470 florins for the Ministry of Commerce, 178,150 

 florins for the Board of Control, 162.720,732 florins 

 for interest and amortization of the public debt, 

 615,360 florins for management of the debt, 19,315,- 

 050 florins for pensions and grants, 5,952.790 florins 

 for subventions, and 110.502,992 florins for Aus- 

 tria's share of the common expenditure of the em- 

 pire. The extraordinary receipts amount to 17,- 

 392,632. and extraordinary expenditures to 32,032,- 

 385 florins. 



The Austrian revenue for 1897 is estimated at 

 692.703,000 florins, and expenditure at 692.100.000 

 florins. In presenting the budget on Oct. 1, 1896, 

 Dr. von Belinski astonished the Reichsrath by de- 

 claring that the estimates of former years were 

 unreal and calculated to deceive Parliament : that 

 not only had the annual expenditures exceeded re- 

 ceipts more than 22,000.000 florins on an average 

 for five years back, but the budget was in other 

 particulars illusory. He proposed to establish a 

 separate investment budget, covered by special 

 rentes. 



