Federal and State finance reports furnish official information. Seligman's _Finances of American States and Cities_, published by the American Statistical Association, 1890, is valuable, and furnishes excellent statistical and tabulated information. Ely's _Taxation in American States and Cities_ contains much information. Spofford's article on _The Budget_ in Lalor's _Encyclopaedia_ is extremely instructive. H.C. Adams' _Public Debts_ is one of the ablest financial works in the English language. The proper administration of Federal and State finances is discussed, and the subject of national and local debts considered. Bolle's _Financial History of the United States_, in three large volumes, is an able work, and can be consulted with profit.
Census Bulletins, Nos. 6 and 7, describe respectively _The Indebtedness of States in 1880 and 1890_, and _The Financial Condition of Counties_.
See reports of the Director of the Mint, and of the Comptroller of the Currency. See also Knox's _United States Notes_; Simmer's _History of American Currency_, and text-books on _Political Economy_.
Sato's _History of the Land Question in the United States_, Johns Hopkins University Studies, Series IV, is the best book for reference. The official source of information regarding the public lands is Donaldson's enormous report of 1341 pages on _The Public Domain: its History with Statistics_ (1884), published by the government (House Executive Documents 47, Part 4, 46th Congress, 3d Session.) For a short account of _The Disposition of Our Public Lands_, see an article by A.B. Hart, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, January, 1887. Statistical tables are appended to this article.
See Johnston's article in Lalor's _Encyclopaedia_, and authorities there cited. Also McPherson's _History of Reconstruction_, Dunning's _United Stales Constitution in Civil War and in Reconstruction_, and W.E. Foster's _References on the United States Constitution in Civil War_, about to be published (1891).
Party Machinery and National Conventions.
See especially Bryce's _American Commonwealth_, and Ostrogorski's _Organisation des parties politiques aux Etats-Unis_. On the Caucus see Whitridge's _The Caucus System_, published as "Economic Tract" No. 8, by the Society for Political Education, New York.