VIII. Latin Union.—For treaty, see “Journal des Économistes,” May, 1866; “House of Commons Report,” ibid, xxxviii, Appendix, pp. 92, 98, 106-109, 116; “Report of Monetary Conference,” 1878, pp. 779-787.
IX. Flow of Silver to the East.—The figures of Sir Hector Hay after 1851, “House of Commons Report,” ibid., App., p. 24, are fullest, and should be combined with Pixley and Abell's figures for years before 1851, ibid., Appendix, p. 21. See also Bourne, “Statistical Journal,” 1879, p. 422; Waterfield, “House of Commons Report,” ibid., Appendix, pp. 171, 172, 174; Quetteville, ibid., p. 184; “Conférence Monétaire Internationale,” 1881, p. 197; London “Economist,” February 24, 1883, Supplement, p. 7; “Parliamentary Documents,” 1881, vol. [pg 635] xciii; “Report of the Director of the United States Mint,” 1880 (in the Finance Report, 1880, p. 194); J. B. Robertson, “Westminster Review,” vol. cxv, p. 200.
X. Depreciation of Silver, 1876.—Causes, Bourne, ibid., pp. 206, 212, 222, 233; Wilson, ibid., p. 128; “House of Commons Report,” ibid.; Sumner, “Princeton Review,” vol. iv., p. 570; S. Newcomb, “International Review,” vol. vi (1879), p. 326; Cochut, “Revue des Deux Mondes,” i, December, 1883, p. 514; Cairnes, “Essays”; F. Bowen, “Minority Report of the United States Silver Commission,” 1878.
Supposed cause of panic of 1873, see Williamson, “Contemporary Review,” April 1879; Seyd, “Decline of Prosperity”; Bourne, ibid., pp. 226, 227.
XI. Appreciation of Gold.—Giffen, “Statistical Journal,” vol. xlii, p. 36, started the theory for the period 1873-1879. Also see Bourne, “Statistical Journal,” vol. xlii, p. 406; S. Newcomb, “International Review,” 1879, p. 329; Wolowski, ibid., pp. 29, 30; Goschen, “Journal of the Institute of Bankers” (London), vol. iv, part vi, May, 1883; Patterson, “Statistical Journal,” vol. xliii, p. 1; for table of prices see London “Economist” (e.g., December 28, 1878).
XII. Bimetallism in the United States.—See supra, [book iii, chap. vii]; for a vast array of materials, see “Report of the International Monetary Conference,” 1878; Linderman's “Money and Legal Tender”; the Finance Reports of the United States; and Congressional Documents. For the coinage laws of 1792, 1834, 1853, 1873, 1878, see pamphlet, “Extracts from the Laws of the United States relating to Currency and Finance,” by C. F. Dunbar. For detailed account of passage of Act of 1873, see “Report of the Comptroller of the Currency,” 1876, p. 170. Present situation, “Atlantic Monthly,” May, 1884, “The Silver Danger.”
A Brief Bibliography Of American Shipping.
I. English Navigation Acts.—Macpherson's “Annals,” ii, pp. 442, 484; Scobell, “Collection of Acts,” p. 176; Ruffhead, “Statutes at Large,” iii, p. 182; Roger Coke, “Treatise on Trade” (1671), p. 36; Sir Josiah Child, “New Discourse on Trade” (1671); Sir Matthew Decker, “Essay on the Causes of the Decline of Foreign Trade” (1744); Joshua Gee, “Trade and Navigation of Great Britain” (1730); Lindsay, “History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce”; McCulloch, “Dictionary of Commerce” (new edition), articles “Navigation” and “Colonial Trade”; ibid., edition of Adam Smith, note xii, p. 534; Huskisson, speeches, iii, 13, 351; Levi, “History of British Commerce,” p. 158.
II. Navigation Laws of the United States.—“United States Statutes at Large,” i, 27, 287, 305; Act of 1817, Statutes, iii, 351; Revised Statutes (1878), “Commerce and Navigation,” p. 795; Lord Sheffield, “Observations on the Commerce of the United States”; Pitkin, “Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States,” chap, i; D. A. Wells, “Our Merchant Marine,” chap. v; Seybert's “Statistical Annals”; Macgregor, “Commercial Statistics of America.”
III. Growth of American Shipping.—Rapid growth, 1840-1856. Levi, “History of British Commerce,” p. 582; Bigelow, “Tariff Question,” Appendix No. 57; “Harper's Magazine,” January, 1884, p. 217; Lindsay, “History of Merchant Shipping,” iii, p. 187; for ship-building, see Report of the United States Bureau of Statistics, “Commerce and Navigation,” 1881, p. 927; for tonnage, ibid., pp. 928-930; also, see “United States Statistical Abstract”; Dingley's Report to House of Representatives, December 15, 1882, No. 1,827, Forty-seventh Congress, second session, pp. 5, 8, 254.