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ing attitude, 102 ; preparations for war, 102; conciliatory 

 overtures, 102; new negotiations, 103; China demands 

 Macao of the Portuguese, 103 ; difficulty with Spain re- 

 garding the coolie trade, 103, 104; American treaties 

 signed, 104 ; outline of Chinese foreign policy, 104 ; fur- 

 ther negotiations with Kussia, 104; attack on mission- 

 aries in Canton, 104, 105; the commander-in-chief of the 

 armies, 105; foreign traders request the removal of the 

 bar below Shanghai, 105; text of the treaties with the 

 United States, 105, 106. 



Chinese Treaties. Text of treaties with the United States, 

 105, 106. 



CHOPPIN, S. P. American physician, biographical sketch, 

 106. 



CUTTRCH, SAXFORD E. Chief Justice of New York, his death, 

 569 ; memorial records, 569. 



Cinchona. Success of its cultivation in India, 387. 



Oircumnutation. Previous observations on the movements 

 of plants, 106 ; law of circumnutation. 10T ; classes of 

 movement, 10T ; movements of the radicle, 107, 108 ; of 

 the hypocotyledenous stem, 108, 109 ; of the stems of 

 seedlings, 109, 110; of stolons. 110; of leaves, 110; sleep 

 of leaves, 110; of cotyledons. 110, 111; heliotropic move- 

 ments, 111 ; peculiar phenomena, 112 ; mechanica Icause 

 of circumnutation, 112. 



COCKBTJKN, Sir ALEXANDER, J. E. British Judge, biographi- 

 cal sketch, 112, 113. 



COKE, EICHARD. Senator from Texas, 136; on the Eaton 

 tariff commission, 178, 179. 



COLLEY, Sir GEORGE POMEROY. Governor of Natal, 80. 



Colombia. Costa Eican boundary question, 113,114; mem- 

 bers of the Government, 114; army and navy, 114; rev- 

 enue and expenses, 114, 115 ; debt, 115; commerce, 115; 

 shipping, 115 ; railways, 115, 116 ; trade by the Panama 

 route, 116; telegraphs, 116; public instruction, 116. 



Colorado. Substance of the Ute treaty, 116; feeling of 

 the Utes, 117; murder of an Indian, 117; freighter 

 Jackson murdered in retaliation, 118 ; arrest of Indian 

 agents on the charge of complicity, 118; denial of juris- 

 diction of State courts in the reservation by United 

 States court, 118, 119 ; regulation affecting miners 1 claims, 

 119; Leadville strike, 119 ; bullion product of Leadville, 

 119; new mining camps, 119, 120; Denver anti-Chinese 

 disturbance, 120; political conventions and platforms, 

 120, 121; census, 121. 



Colored Jurors. Supreme Court decisions under the elec- 

 tion laws, 703, 704. 



Commerce of the United States. Financial conditions and 

 principal events of the year, 121 ; exports and imports in 

 1879- 1 80, 121 ; totals for previous years, 121 ; comparison 

 with other countries, 122; total merchandise exports 

 and imports, 122; analysis of returns, 122 ; proportion 

 of New York, 122 ; detailed statement of commerce of 

 New York in 1 S79- 1 80, 123; advance in average prices, 

 123 ; statement of foreign commerce for calendar year, 

 124 ; merchandise exports and imports for year ending 

 with November, 124; tonnage statistics, 124 ; ghip-build- 

 ing, 124; the decline of American shipping, 125; review 

 of prices, 125; speculations in merchandise, 125 ; leading 

 commercial data, 125 ; railroad combinations, 125, 126 ; 

 review of stock market, 126 ; of money market, 126, 127 ; 

 exchange, 127; statistics of bankruptcy, 127; comparison 

 of prices of securities, shares, and commodities for three 

 years, 127; the cereal crops, 123; estimate of the world's 

 product and consumption, 128 ; exports to Great Britain, 

 128; grain receipts at seaports, 128; at New York for 

 four years, 128; at lake and river ports, 128 ; crop move- 

 ments at "Western ports, 129 ; shipments from same, 129 ; 

 New York grain prices at close of the year, 129 ; provision 

 exports, 129 ; destination of same, 129 ; pork exports for 



two years, 129 ; petroleum exports, 129, 180 ; cotton-crop 

 of 1880, 180; exports, 130; domestic consumption, 180; 

 crops of different States, 180; cotton-crops since 1S78, 

 180 ; cotton move cent from the beginning of the new 

 crop year to the end of the calendar year, 130 : review 

 of the goods trade, 180, 131 ; exports for two years, 

 181 ; fluctuations of prices, 131 ; production of different 

 States, 182. 



Congregationalism. Statistics of churches in the United 

 States, 182; societies, 132; statistics of missions, 188; the 

 National Council, 138 ; action regarding ministerial stand- 

 ing, 133 ; statistics of Great Britain and dependencies, 

 134 ; the British Congregational Union, 134 ; mission 

 work in South Africa and New Guinea, 135. 



Congress of the United States. List of members, 186, 187; 

 bill regarding the jurisdiction of circuit courts and the 

 removal of causes from State courts, 138; to restrict the 

 jurisdiction to $2,000 instead of |500, 188; that non- 

 resident defendants may transfer cases within their juris- 

 diction to United States courts, 138; section restricting 

 the jurisdiction of United States courts in cases in which 

 corporations are parties, 138; debate on this section, 139- 

 147; on jurisdiction in cases involving patent-rights, 139; 

 evils of allowing corporations to transfer cases to distant 

 courts, 140; great power of corporations, 141 ; the limita- 

 tion of the value of property in action, 141 ; pressure of 

 business in the courts, 141; the restriction of jurisdiction 

 in corporation cases not unconstitutional, 142; in accord- 

 ance with the doctrines of the Federal courts, 142 ; en- 

 croachments on the jurisdiction of State courts, 143, cen- 

 tralizing and disintegrating tendencies, 143 ; Jefferson on 

 the encroachments of the Federal judiciary, 144; act of 

 1866, 145; act making a cause removable on the motion 

 of either party, 145 ; jurisdiction over navigable waters, 

 145; embezzlement of pension moneys indictable in 

 Federal courts, 145; corporation cases brought under 

 Federal court jurisdiction, 145; the unequal conflict, 

 146; Wisconsin insurance act ruled void, 146; juris- 

 diction over criminal cases extended, 146; Supreme 

 Court decisions to the contrary, 147; evils of dual juris- 

 diction, 147; cost of litigation in United States courts, 

 148; criminal acts of Federal officers shielded, 148; 

 alienating the people from the Government, 148; super- 

 vision of elections opposed to local self-government, 149; 

 no necessity for a stronger Government, 149 ; no demand 

 for the abolition of United States courts, 150 ; the amend- 

 ment relating to corporations and the bill passed, 150. 



Eesolution in the House to take part in the Berlin fish- 

 ery exhibition, 150; former international exhibitions, 151; 

 importance of fishery interests, 151 ; American advances 

 in fishery methods, 151, 152; resolution adopted, 152. 



Communication to the House from the President rela- 

 tive to the payment of marshals, 152; statement from the 

 Attorney-General, 153; special deputies excluded, 153; 

 no obligation to pay them, 154; principle of attaching 

 general legislation to appropriation bills denounced. 155; 

 special deputies considered to have a lawful claim, 156; 

 refusal to pay characterized as revolutionary-, 156 ; super- 

 vision of elections recognized in the Constitution, 156; 

 delay asked to deliberate upon the special deputy ques- 

 tion, 157; argument that the Constitution confers on 

 Congress the right to regulate elections, 158, 159 ; fatal 

 tendency of State-rights doctrine, 159 ; lawless attitude of 

 the majority denounced, 159, 160; the election law man- 

 datory, 160; former nullification of fugitive-slave law, 

 160; State rights then asserted by Republicans, 161; 

 Eepublicans accused of fomenting sectional strife, 161, 

 162 ; not nullification to withhold the appropriations, 162 ; 

 amendment to reduce the pay of deputies for election 

 services, 163; most of the deputies were employed in 



