The amount of Treasury notes of 1890 is comparatively small, and this kind of money is destined to disappear within a few years.
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS AND REFERENCES.
1. The tariff schedule in force at the present time may be found in newspaper almanacs. Is this tariff high, low, or moderate in its rate?
2. The Statistical Abstract, published by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, gives the list of items upon which duties and internal revenue taxes are collected, and the amounts yielded by each for a series of years; the expenditures of the government, with the chief items; a statement of the National debt; and statistics concerning the money of the United States. See also any newspaper almanac.
3. Why do liquors and tobaccos bear the heaviest excise taxes? What reasons can you give for taxing the other articles mentioned on pp. 82-83?
4. Because our coins contain one-tenth alloy, they are said to be nine-tenths fine. Calculate from the weights of pure metal, given on p. 91, the total weights of the gold and silver dollars.
5. For information concerning the Act of Congress fixing a "standard of weights and measures," see Government in State and Nation, 188-189.
6. The depreciation of the United States notes, referred to on p. 92, is shown graphically in Government in State and Nation, 185.
7. For our money, see Reinsch, Young Citizen's Reader, 101-103; Marriott, Uncle Sam's Business, 97-119; 165-172; Century Book for Young Americans, 121-134.
8. On commerce, read Harrison, This Country of Ours, 65-67.