13. State the retail and wholesale price of the goods at the point of production, and the retail and wholesale price of the same goods in the United States for the years 1884, 1890, 1892, and the date of your

answer.

14. On what terms are goods generally sold?

15. State whether you are a manufacturer's agent, a consignee, or a purchaser.

16. What commission is paid you for handling goods!

17. Please give the average rate of interest in the country of production of your goods.

18. Give the wages paid there for the past three years for skilled and unskilled labor.

19. State whether an ad valorem or a specific rate of duty is desired, and why.

20. State whether duties are most likely to be evaded under an ad valorem or under a specific duty.

21. Please give, if possible, a description of the mode of living and expenditures for two or more families of skilled laborers employed by the concerns manufacturing the goods which you represent, stating the location of such families.

22. State whether free trade or protection exists in the country of manufacture.

23. Give the amount of imports and value of your goods yearly for the past four years.

24. How do you manage to compete with domestic productions? 25. Please give for a period of ten years the cost of transportation, from point of manufacture to destination, in this country.

26. So far as your knowledge extends, which of the European countries has been most prosperous during the past twelve months, and to what cause was such prosperity, if any, due?

27. Have you any suggestions to make concerning the administrative features of the customs laws?

The committee are desirous that your reply shall give a full expression of your views, and not be restricted to merely answering the questions categorically. At the same time it is desired that your answers shall be confined to your own business, and be stated concisely.

Publicity will not be given to names or location of business, if you so desire.

Please return your answer in the accompanying envelope.

Very respectfully,

D. W. VOORHEES,
U. S. Senate, Chairman.

SCHEDULE N-Continued.

SUNDRIES.

LEATHER AND MANUFACTURES OF LEATHER.
No. 6814.

Aggregate imports and exports of leather and manufactures of leather.

SKINS, CHAMOIS OR OTHER, NOT SPECIALLY PROVIDED FOR; BOOKBINDERS' CALFSKINS; KANGAROO, SHEEP, AND GOATSKINS, INCLUDING LAMB AND KID SKINS, DRESSED AND FINISHED.