lUi [Senate 



5. What number of hands — male, female, and children — do you 

 employ 7 



6. As a manufacturer, what is your opinion in regard to the quality 

 of American raw silk, properly reeled, compared with the foreign article ? 



7. As a manufacturer, what is your opinion as to the comparative 

 quality of the silk made from the different kinds of trees in common 

 use; the Multicaulis, Cantons, Asiatics, Broosas, Alpines, Italian 

 whites, and the native American mulberry. 



8. In the present tariff on silks, are any modifications needed in 

 order to make it answer the designs contemplated in establishing if? 



9. What are your views in regard to the whole silk business as a 

 permanent branch of American industry? Is the enterprise feasi- 

 ble -? 



In conclusion, we earnestly press this whole subject upon your 

 attention. Come to the convention. At least, send us specimens of 

 your labors, and the^ac^s which w^e ask. To every person who will 

 give a written statement, as desired, and to every editor who will 

 publish this circular, sending us a paper containing it, we will send 

 a copy of the contemplated report. 



By order, 



James Tallmadge, President. 



Adoniram Chandler, % 



William Inglis, > Vice-Presidents. 



Shepherd Knapp, ^ \ trustees. 



T. B. Wakeman, Corresponding Secretary. 



G. J. Leeds, Recording Secretary. 



E. T. Backhouse, Treasurer. 



In pursuance of this call, a highly respectable convention assem- 

 bled. Dr. Daniel Stebbins of Northampton, Mass., was called to 

 the chair, and James Harrison, Esq., of New Haven, Conn., ap- 

 pointed secretary, and the following roll of delegates made out. 



Charles Henry Hall, Harlem^ JV. Y. 



S. Church, Betklem, Conn. 



Charles B. Crafts, Woodbury.^ Conn. 



Horace Pitkin, Manchester P. 0., Conn. 



Return J. Meigs, Augusta, Geo, 



G. W. Murray, Pater son, K. J. 



Timothy Smith, Amherst, Mass. 



Oliver Pierce, Elizahethtoxon, JV. J. 



Oliver Mitchell, South Britain, Conn. 



Robert Wentworth, Centre Buxton, Maine. 



James A. Stetson, JVorthamptrm, Mass. 



Joseph Conant, Northampton, Mass. 



Ephraim Montague, Belchertown, Mass, 



William Robert Prince, Flushing, L. I. 



Jacob Pratt, Sherburne, Mass. 



J. Danforth, JVeio- For/:. 



Holly Bell, Darien, Conn. ] 



