Sawyer, Philetus, 116. Schenck, Robert C., 54, 62. Schenck Bill, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68. Schurz, Carl, 69, 75, 83. Schwab, 292. Scrapiron duties, 35. Seceders, 7. Secession, 6, 7. Secretary of Treasury, 29. Section Struggle, 39. Semicolon, 124. Senate: frames revenue bill, 110. passes Senate Bill, 118. hearings before, 166. examination of, regarding sugar stock speculation, 227. make-up of Senate of 1897, 245. analysis of duties of, 308. Settlers, 116. Seward, 6. Sherman, John, 4, 5. asks Senate to raise wool duties, 39. advises lobbyists, 75, 76. removes Parsee from Custom House, 91. arrogance of, 111. fights reduction of iron, 114. fights for wool, 115. dissatisfaction of wool-growers with, 131. “Recollections” of, 131. appoints Tichenor special agent, 167. introduces anti-trust measure, 201. prepares for “Hell Gate,” 210. Ship-building, 61, 62. Shoddy, 248, 249. Shoe-making trust: formation of, 270. inheritance of, 271. aim of, 271. prepares lease, 272, 273. monopoly of, 273. Shoes: cost of, 265, 266. reasons for increased cost, 266, 267. royalty on, 273, 274. Silver Question, 216, 237, 238, 240, 241. Simmons, “Wood-Screw,” 7. connection with new tax and tariff bills, 15. secures gun contract, 15. Sinister phase of Hearings, 299. Slavery Agitation, 3, 7. Smoot, 323. Smuggling, 24, 25. Specie Payment, 53. Specific duty, 302. Spool cotton, 262, 263, 264. Spooner, 193. Springer, Wm., 211. Standard Oil Co., 278, 279, 288. Stand-patter, 353. Starch, 277, 278. States petition Congress, 85. Stevens, Thaddeus, 12. description of, 14, 15. as dictator, 33. opposes Morrill Bill of 1866, 33, 35. alarmed at struggle of sections, 39. death of, 53. owner of foundry, 65. Storey, Moorfield, 305. Sugar, 195, 196, 197. “Sugar House,” 227. Sugar Refineries Company, 198, 199. Sugar Trusts, 222–227. Sumner, Charles, 4, 20, 21. Sumner, Wm. G., 90, 91. Surplus, 98. oiling up of, 144. methods to reduce, 188, 189. reduction of, overdone, 216. Surprise resolution, 71. Swank, James W., 242. Taft, Wm. H., 296, 300, 313, 324. Tariff: fifty years ago, 1. to-day, 2. bill of 1862, 14, 15, 16. bill of 1864, 20. bill of 1865, 26, 30, 31. bill of 1875, 81. “For Revenue only,” 82, 83. Reformers, 90. bill of 1883, 128, 129, 130, 131. bill of 1886, 142, 143. as a tax, 163, 164. league, 178. Act of 1890, 206. Reform Committee of N. Y., 293. self-defeating, 295. as bargains, 363, 364. a question of national morals, 357, 358. Tariff Commission, 100. personnel of, 101, 102. reception of, 102, 103. hearings before, 103–106. platform of, 107. inconsistencies of, 107, 108. Tariff Conference, 127. “Tariff of Abominations,” 1. Textile World Record, 289, 291. “The poor,” 258, 259. “Thousand-dollar breakfast,” 10, 22.