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SHERMAN, JOHN: remarks on first legal- tender bill, 53, 65 ; opposition to tem- porary loan, 85, 86; remarks on second legal-tender bill, 95 ; vote upon it, 97 ; proposed amendment making demand notes legal tender, 152; introduces "gold bills," 225, 228 ; Recollections, 10 n. ; see also 53 n., 55 n., 59 n., 61 n., 67 n., 78, 89 n., 105 n., Ill n., 225 n., 229 n. "SHINPLASTEES" : circulation of, 159-64, 180. Shipping and Commercial List (New York), 151 n., 152 n., 153 n. "SHODDY ARISTOCRACY": extravagance of, 398. SIMMONS, J. F. : remarks on second legal-tender bill, 94; see also 55 n., 66 n., 73 n., 80 n., 95 n., 151 n. SOETBEER, A.: index-numbers for Ger- many, 272, 273. SOLDIERS : pay of, 334, 335, 408. Sound Currency, 27 n., 52 n., 195 n. SOUTHERN DEBTS : treatment of, in 1861, 21 and 21 n. SOUTHERN PRODUCTS : relative prices of, 252-4, 266. SPAHH, C. B., 282 n. SPAULDING, E. G. : work on Committee of Ways and Means, 45 ; first draft of legal- tender bill, 46; reasons assigned for it, 47; reply to Gallatin. 48-50; second draft of legal-tender bill, 51 ; remarks on bill, 52, 61, 64. 65, 67, 77, 80; " Father of the Greenbacks," 69-71; 94; remarks on second legal-tender bill, 94, 95, 96 ; remarks on third legal-tender bill, 108, 111, 114 ; opinion of effect of greenbacks on business, 392; History of Legal- Tender Paper Money, 4 n., 19 n., 23 n., 25 n., 26 n., 27 n., 29 n., 33 n., 43 n., 45 n., 46 n., 47 n., 48 n., 49 n., 51 n., 52 n., 62 n., 67 n., 68 n., 70 n., 73 n., 75 n., 76 n., 105 n. ; see also 55 n.,56n., 57 n., 58 n., 61 n., 65 n., 82 n., 87 n., 89 n., 97 n., 110 n. SPEAR, S. T., 74 n. SPECIE PAYMENTS, SUSPENSION OF: by banks, 38-41, 144-8 ; by treasury, 41 ; re- sponsibility for, 41-3. SPECULATION: and the premium upon gold, 185, 187, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 209, 210, 224 ; attempts to crush gold specu- lation, 223-32 ; speculation and prices, 270. 271 ; effect of greenbacks on specu- lation, 396-8. SPINNER, F. E. : on wages of government clerks, 334. STAMP TAX : on sales of gold, 223, 224. STANDARD OF VALUE: fluctuations in specie value of greenbacks. 135, 136, 140 n., 182-238; in prices, 239-79; effect of changes in the standard.see Wages, Rent, Interest, Profits, Production, Consumption, Cost of war, Credit; community's interest in standard vs. financial interest of government, 403, 404. STANTON, E. M., 68 n., 105. STEVENS, THADDEUS: chairman Com- mittee of Ways and Means, 45; atti- tude toward legal-tender bill. 46; re- marks on first legal-tender bill, 52, 57, 64, 65, 67, 77, 80; explanation of " fund- ing provisions,'1 89; remarks on second 576 HISTORY OP THE GREENBACKS legal-tender bill, 97: reports loan and banking bills January, 1863, 105, 199. 200; opposes repeal of "conversion clause, 116; substitute for third legal- tender bill, 116; attempt to secure pay- ment of interest in paper money, 122; introduces bill to make demand notes legal tender, 154; bill to prevent pay- ment of premium for coin, 237 ; see also 52 n., 55 n., 58 n., 61 n., 78, 78 n., 82 n., 84 n., 87 n., 91 n. STONE-CUTTERS : relative wages of, 299, 345. STONE TRADE: relative wages in, 295, 344. STRIKES, 348 n. SDMNEH, CHARLES: remarks on first legal-tender bill, 54,79; see also 55 n., 59 n., 60 n., 62 n. Sr.M M:U, W. G., 21 n., 43 n., 74 n. Sun (Baltimore), 81 n. TACSSIG, F. W., 9 n., 74 n. TAXATION: inadequacy of taxes levied in August, 1861, 18, 19. 63, 72; increase of taxes, 120; effect of, on prices, 267- 70; effect of greenbacks on receipts from taxes, 412-17. TEAMSTERS : relative wages of, 299, 331. TEXTILE TRADES: relative wages in, 294, 295, 302, 330, 344. THOMAS, B. F. : remarks on first legal- tender bill, 57, 63 : opposition to legal- tender clause, 76 ; see also 52 n., 54 n., 56 n., 57 n., 59 n., 60 n. THOMAS, P. F. : administration of treas- ury, 6-8. THOMPSON, R. E., 189 n. Times (New York), 19 n., 39 n., 73 n., 81, 152 n., 153 n., 154 n., 158, 161 n., 193 n., 199 n., 200 n., 202 n., 204 n., 207 n., 215 n.f 220 n., 222 n., 223 n., 224 n., 225 n., 228 n., 375. TOD, DAVID: offered secretaryship of the treasury, 124. TOWNSEND, S. P., 188 n. TREASURY NOTES: one-year notes of 1857,5; one-year notes of 1860,6, 7, 8, 11 ; two-year notes of 1861, 12, 13, 14, 20; sixty-day notes of 1861,20; 7:30 notes of 1861, 17, 28; one- and two- year notes of 1863, 123, 124,126, 174-6; compound- interest notes, 123, 124, 125, 126, 176; 7: 30 notes of 1864, 125,126, 127, 177, 178: see also Greenbacks, Demand notes of 1861, Certificates of indebtedness. TRENT AFFAIR: financial effect of, 37, 38,42. Tribune (New York), 19 n., 21 n., 36 n., 39 n., 41, 80, 151 n., 152 n., 159 n., 160 n., 163 n., 184 n., 201, 209 n., 222, 223 n., 224, 226 n., 234, 235 n., 237 n., 367 n. TRUMBULL, LYMAN: remarks on circula- tion of cents, 170. UNITED STATES NOTES : see Greenbacks, Treasury notes, Demand notes of 1861. UPTON, J. K., 27 n., 52 n., 74 n. VALLANDIGHAM, C. L. : attacks on policy of the administration, July, 1861, 16; substitute proposed for first legal- tender act, 75; nomination for gover- nor of Ohio, 219 ; see also 60 n. VICKSBURG, CAPTURE OF : effect on value of currency, 204. WAGES: connection between advance in prices and in wages, 270, 306; value of wage-data, of Aldrich Report, 283- 6; of Weeks's supplementary report, 314, 315; of Department of Agriculture for farm-laborers. 321, 322; of the Tenth Census, 324-8; relative money wages, by industries, 294-8, 314-19; by occupa- tions, 298-300, 319-21, 321-4,330, 331; by sexes, 291, 293, 300-303. 307 ; by grades of skill and responsibility, 300, 301,323; by wage-groups, 303-7, 322, 323; range of fluctuations, 290-92, 329, 330; connec- tion with actual earnings before sus- pension, 303-7, 332,333; actual money wages, increase in, 308, 309, 333; relative wages in eastern and western states, 828-31, 346, 347; relative real wages, approximate character of figures, 339, 840; of all persons represented by Aldrich Report, 340-42; comparison with Falkner's figures, 342, 343; by industries, 344; by occupations, 345; by wage-groups, 345; in eastern and western states, 346, 347: conclusions regarding, 347-51 ; c/. tables of relative wages computed from Table XII of the Aldrich Report, 470-517; from Table XIV, ibid., 566, 567 ; from Vol. XX of the Tenth Census, 518-66. WAITE,F. C., 282 n. WALKER, AMASA: remarks on third legal-tender bill, 111, 113; see also llOn., Ill n., 113 n., 114 n., 398 n. WALKER, F. A., 52 n., 325 n. WALKER, R. J., 10 n., 393 n. WALTON, C. W., 61 n., 63n. WAR NEWS : effect on value of currency, 203-5. WARD, E., Ill n. WARDEN, R. B., 4n., 24n., 26 n., 27 n., 34n., 41 n., 43 n., 70 n., 124 n., 227 n., 228 n.. 230 n., 231 n., 232 n., 235 n. WATCHMEN : relative wages of, 299. WATTS, J. S. : remarks on third legal- tender bill, 115; see also 113 n. WEALTH: effect of greenbacks on pro- duction of, 392-8 ; on consumption of, 398-402. WEAVERS : relative wages of, 299, 345. WEEKS, J. D. : report on retail prices, 259-64; report on wages in Aldrich Report, 314-19; report on wages in Tenth Census, 324-33; data for rent, 354-7. WEIGHTING: of tables of prices, 244, 250 n. ; of tables of wages, 287-9, 294-8, 301, 309-13, 327 ; of tables of cost of liv- ing, 336, 337; of tables of prices of agricultural products, 387. INDEX 577 WELLS, DAVTD A. : inquiry into earnings of professional men, 321 ; into rent of workingmen's houses, 353, 354; into profits, 389 ; on cause of price fluctua- tions, 269; on prosperity during war, 392; on increase of speculation, 397, 398; see also 351 n., 398 n. WESTON, G. M., 189 n. WHABTON, JOSEPH : opposition to cessa- tion of coinage of nickel cents, 169. WHITE, HORACE, 26 n., 182 n., 406 n. WHOLESALE PRICES (see Prices). WILDERNESS, BATTLES OF: effect on value of currency, 222. WILKINSON, M. S., 18 n. WILLEY, W. T., 60 n., 77. WILLIAMS, J. E., 26 n., 27 n., 43 n. WILLIAMS, C. P.: estimate of effect of greenbacks on cost of war, 405. WILSON, G. F., 78 n. WILSON, HENRY : offers resolution for a third issue of greenbacks, 106; see also 55 n., 65 n., 80. WILSON, R., 77. WOMEN : relative wages of, as compared with men, 291, 293, 300-303, 307. World (New York), 81, 205, 209 n., 234, 367 n. WRIGHT, H. B., 52 n., 63 n. YAZOO RIVER EXPEDITION: effect on value of currency, 203. 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