For Bessemer steel, Swank, “Census Report,” 1880, pp. 149-153; and Schoenhof, “Destructive Influences of the Tariff,” chap. vii. A. S. Hewett, Speech in Congress, May 16, 1882. Separately printed.
(2.) Wool, Woolens, and Cottons.—Production and importation of wool, see “United States Statistical Abstract”; “Tariff Commission Report,” i, pp. 1782-1785; ii, p. 2432.
Production and importation of woolens, see “Bulletin of Woolen Manufacturers,” vii, p. 359; “Commerce and Navigation Reports.”
Prosperity of woolen manufacturers after 1867, see Wells, “Wool and the Tariff” (a letter to the “New York Tribune,” March 20, 1873); R. W. Robinson, article of December, 1872, in “Bulletin of Woolen Manufacturers,” iii, p. 354. Edward Harris, “Memorial of the Manufacturers of Woolen Goods to the Committee of Ways and Means,” Washington, 1872. John L. Hayes, “The Fleece and the Loom.”
Production and importation of cottons, see “Commerce and Navigation Reports”; Census Report of 1880.
(3.) Silk.—Manufacture since 1860, see “Silk Association Reports”; Wyckoff, “Silk Manufacture in the United States” (1883) for recent history, pp. 42-51. Wyckoff, “The Silk Goods of America” (1880), on methods of manufacture, chaps. ii, iv, vi.
(4.) Sugar Duties.—D. A. Wells, “Princeton Review,” vi (November, 1880), pp. 319-335; and “The Sugar Industry of the United States and the Tariff” (1878).
VII. Present Tariff.—Heyl's “United States Duties on Imports” (1881) contains all acts in force to date of publication, and gives all acts since the year 1861 in full. It is used by the United States officials.
“Imports Duties from 1867 to 1883 inclusive” (House of Representatives, Miscellaneous Documents, No. 49, Forty-eighth Congress, first session) gives duties on each article by years, and reduces specific to ad valorem rates.
“The Existing Tariff on Imports into the United States,” 1884 (Senate Document, Report, No. 12, Forty-eighth Congress, first session).