2. Why has the imposition of direct taxes on the states not been resorted to with more frequency? 3. What is your opinion of the law levying taxes on incomes? 4. What is the amount paid by your state in internal revenue taxes? How many internal revenue districts are in your state? 5. Are there any ports of "entry" or "delivery" in your state? Any customhouses? If so, what is the amount collected by each? (See report of the secretary of the treasury.) 6. Can you give the names of some articles now on the "free list"? Mention some articles on which, in your judgment, the tariff rate is too high. Mention some articles on which the tariff is levied according to the _ad valorem_ method; the _specific_ method; both methods combined. (See copy of the tariff law.) 7. With what countries do we have reciprocity commercial treaties? In brief, what are the provisions of those treaties? 8. Why is an internal revenue tax imposed on such articles as oleomargarine, filled cheese, and mixed flour? 9. What is the present rate on tobacco, cigars, distilled spirits, and fermented spirits? 10. What was the total amount of the appropriations of Congress at the last session? What were the largest items of expenditure? 11. What is the present mint ratio between gold and silver? the market ratio? What is the actual weight of a silver dollar? What is Gresham's law of coinage? 12. Which countries have a bimetallic monetary system? Which a single silver standard? Which a single gold standard? What are the arguments for and against free coinage of silver? 13. What would be the result of opening the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver? 14. Name the different kinds of paper money. 15. What was the amount of the interest-bearing debt according to the last report of the secretary of the treasury? 16. What do you understand by the terms "legal tender"? "fiat money"? "seigniorage"? "suspension of specie payments"? 17. What is the penalty for counterfeiting the currency of the United States? [Answers to many of these questions may be found in the report of the secretary of the treasury which may be obtained gratis from the secretary.] CHAPTER XIII THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE