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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Democratic districts 163; substitute, 163; amendments 

 offered, 163, 164; alteration of election law demanded, 

 164; the substitute a compromise, 165; possibility of 

 using election law for partisan purposes conceded, 165; 

 the amended substitute defeats the law, 165; further 

 amendments, 166; finally amended by keeping the pay 

 the same, and allowing different parties equal numbers 

 of deputies, 166; bill passed as amended, 166; yeas and 

 nays, 166; vote in the Senate, 167 ; veto of the President, 

 167. 



Army appropriation bill in the House, 167-172; the 

 controversy in the preceding session, 168 ; the prohibi- 

 tory proviso, 168; the question of riders on appropriation 

 bills, 168; it is a coercion of the Senate, 169 ; the proviso 

 declared derogatory to constitutional command, 169; the 

 right of the Government to employ physical force to 

 execute the laws, 170; concurrent sovereignty, 171, 172; 

 bill passed and approved, 172. 



Bill for a tariff commission in the Senate, 172-1 S3 ; pe- 

 titions in favor of the Eaton bill, 172 ; the Garland substi- 

 tute, 173; character of the petitions, 173; faults of the 

 tariff, 173, 174; growth of manufacturing industries, 174 ; 

 benefits of protection, 175; constitutional objections, 175; 

 the Garland bill in the interest of a revenue tariff, 176 ; 

 advantages of a commission selected from civil life, 177; 

 attack upon the protective tariff, 178, 179 ; the Garland 

 substitute, 179; Eaton's argument, 179-182; the sheep- 

 growing interest, 180; divorce the tariff question from 

 politics, 1 81 ; three quarters of the industries of the coun- 

 try need no protection, 181 ; a revenue tariff and inciden- 

 tal protection, 182; Beck's argument against the bill, 

 182; the tariff can be reduced one half, and revenue 

 doubled, 182 ; yeas and nays on the bill, 183. 



Eesolution to appoint a commission on transportation, 

 183 ; amendments, 183 ; advantage of having experts on 

 the commission, 183, 184; frequency of petitions on rail- 

 road regulation, 184; objections to non-members of Con- 

 gress on the- commission, 185, 186; a standing committee 

 already existing for the purpose^ 187 ; the resolution not 

 passed, 187. 



Bill in the Senate ta exempt a former Confederate from 

 disability to hold a commission in the army, 187-194 ; 

 the tendency to repeal all war legislation protested 

 against, 188 ; the special case explained, 189 ; argument 

 for a general amnesty, 189 ; amendment to that effect, 

 189 ; the services of the younger Confederate soldiers 

 will be needed in case of war, 190 ; the repeal will only 

 readmit to the higher ranks of the army, 190 ; character- 

 ized as a design to place Confederate officers on the re- 

 tired list, 191 ; the imputation of hatred toward the 

 South disclaimed, 192 ; the cases of two officers restored 

 to rank explained, 193 ; the second debate on the repeal 

 of disabilities, 193, 194; the amendment rejected, 194; 

 the special exemption granted, 194; adjournment of Con- 

 gress, 194. 



CONKLING, KOSCOE. Senator from New York, 136; on a 

 transportation commission, 183, 184 ; resolutions offered 

 at Chicago Convention, 694, 696. 



Connecticut. Meeting of the Legislature, 194 ; principal acts, 

 194 ; proposed constitutional amendment for the nomina- 

 tion of Judges by the Governor, 194 ; New York boun- 

 dary adjustment, 195 ; new law of corporations, 195 ; 

 savings-bank investment law, 195; other measures, 195, 

 196; education and employment-of-children acts, 196; 

 convict-labor, 196 ; act relating to criminal practice, 196 ; 

 jury law, 196; diseased cattle, 196 ; compulsory pilotage, 

 196 ; tax levy and appropriations, 196 ; vital statistics, 196 ; 

 educational statistics, 196 ; assessment of principal towns, 

 196; insurance statistics, 197; tobacco-raising, 197 ; politi- 

 cal conventions and resolutions, 197, 198 ; amendment to 



the Constitution ratified, 198; election returns, 198 ; cen- 

 sus returns, 198. 



CONOLLY, KICHAKD BAKKETT. Biographical sketch, 198. 



CONSTANS, J. A. E. French Minister of the Interior, bio- 

 graphical note, 281. 



COSTA RICA. Members of Government, 198, 199 ; army, 199 ; 

 revenues and expenditures, 199 ; commerce, 199 ; inter- 

 oceanic railway, 199, 200 ; Constituent Assembly broken 

 up, 200; foreign relations, 200 ; schools, 200. 



CREMIEUX, ISAAC ADOLPHE. French statesman, biographical 

 sketch, 200, 201. 



CUBA. Insurrection suppressed, 672. 



CULBEKSON, D. B. Member of Congress from Texas, on his 

 amendment to bill to regulate the jurisdiction of Federal 

 courts, 137-139. 



CURTIS, WILLIAM EDMUND. American Judge, biographical 

 sketch, 201. 



DAVIS, H. G. Senator from West Virginia, 136 ; on a trans- 

 portation commission, 187. 



DAWES, H. L. Senator from Massachusetts, 136; on the 

 Eaton tariff commission bill, 173-175; on Confederate 

 disabilities, 193. 



Delaware. State debt, 202; receipts and expenses, 202; de- 

 cision on the appointment of supervisor of elections, 

 202, 203 ; complaints of the manner of making out the 

 assessment lists, 203; arrested deputy-marshals released 

 by order of United States Court, 203 ; the omission of 

 colored jurors decided to be unconstitutional, 203; the 

 Governor's message on Federal encroachments, 204; na- 

 tional banks refuse to pay State tax, 204 ; election riot at 

 Wilmington, 204; peach-crop, 204; beet-sugar, 204; 

 political conventions and platforms, 204, 205; election 

 returns, 205 ; census report, 205. 



Denmark. Eoyal family, 206 ; area and population, 206; 

 colonies, 206 ; revenue and expenditures, 206 ; debt, 206 ; 

 army and navy, 206 ; shipping, 207 ; commerce, 207 ; 

 religious statistics, 207 ; representation of Copenhagen, 

 207; budget debate, 207; the strategical advantages of 

 Denmark, 207; relations with Germany, 208; the Bern- 

 hardt dinner incident, 208 ; tariff changes, 208 ; budget 

 estimates, 208. 



Dephosphorisation of Iron. Invention of the basic process, 

 208; nature of the process, 209; difficulties overcome, 

 209 ; chemistry of the operation, 209, 210 ; plan of chang- 

 ing converters, 210; suitable ores in the United States, 

 210. 



DEVENS, CHARLES. Attorney-General, letter relating to the 

 pay of United States marshals, 153. 



Diamonds. Artificial production of carbon crystals, 86. 



Disciples of Christ. Statistics of the denomination, 211 ; 

 missionary societies, 211. 



Dominion of Canada. Ministry, 211; change in the cur- 

 rency laws, 211, 212 ; excise changes, 212; receipts and 

 expenditures, 212; Treasury operations, 212 ; debt, 212; 

 tariff changes, 213 ; Ontario boundary dispute, 213 ; the 

 Pacific Eailroad question, 214; efforts to obtain aid in 

 England, 214; nature of the undertaking, 214; sections 

 under contract, 214; selection of a Pacific terminus, 214, 

 215 ; estimates of cost, 215 ; the railroad lands, 215 ; the 

 syndicate, 215; stipulations of the contract, 216; meet* 

 ing of Parliament, 216 ; speech from the throne, 216; 

 immigration, 216, 217; assisted passages, 217; unfavor- 

 able land regulations, 217; extent of cultivable land in 

 the Northwest, 217; geodetic surveys, 217, 218; the 

 Fortune Bay fishery outrage, 218; history of negotia- 

 tions, 218 ; project of transatlantic steamship communica- 

 tion with the Northwest, 218; Indian policy, 218, 2W; 



