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ALABAMA. 



ALASKA. 



bonds issued to railroads, 17 ; charitable insti- 

 tutions, IT; Federal census, 18. 



XL Alabama & Chattanooga Kailroad, 7, 

 8, 13; bankruptcy of, 8; Legislature, 8, 12, 

 13; Ku-klux, 8, 9; testimony before Con- 

 gressional Committee, 9 ; finances, 9, 10 ; 

 schools and school attendance, 10, 13, 14; 

 State University, 10; railroads and State in- 

 dorsement of bonds of, 11 ; mines, manufact- 

 ures, 11, 13 ; meeting of Republican State 

 Committee, 11; resolutions, 11, 12; constitu- 

 tional amendments, 12; election law, bill for 

 issue of bonds, act to establish normal schools, 

 13; statistics from census of 1870 agricult- 

 ure, live-stock, manufactures, mortality, 13 ; 

 school attendance, illiteracy, 14 ; table of popu- 

 lation, valuation, taxation, debt, 14. 



XII. State debt, 8 ; railroad bonds indorsed 

 by the State, 8 ; liability of the State as an in- 

 dorser of railroad bonds, 8 ; railroad progress 

 in the State, 8 ; legislative action relating to 

 financial affairs, 8 ; the trouble occasioned by 

 the failure of the Alabama & Chattanooga 

 road to pay the interest on bonds indorsed by 

 the State, 8 ; the terms upon which purchasers 

 agreed to buy the road, 9 ; action of the court, 

 9 ; session of the Legislature, 9 ; bills passed, 

 9; provisions of the new election law, 9; 

 causes for contesting the election of any can- 

 didate, 10; the text of certain sections con- 

 taining sundry general provisions, 10 ; acts to 

 encourage immigration, 10; establishment of 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College, 10, 

 11; political campaign, 11; Democratic Con- 

 vention, ticket, and platform, 11 ; Republican 

 Convention, 11; candidates chosen, 11; sub- 

 stance of the resolutions, 11; results of the 

 election, 11 ; the election returns disputed, 11 ; 

 two bodies claiming to be the Legislature, 11 ; 

 action of Governor Lindsay, 12; David P. 

 Lewis declared Governor, 12 ; his reasons for 

 recognizing the Republican faction as the Leg- 

 islature, 12; appeal to President Grant, 12; 

 plan for a compromise, 12, 13. 



XIII. Meeting of the Legislatures, 15 ; ac- 

 ceptance of the terms of compromise proposed 

 by the Attorney-General, 15 ; circumstances 

 of the question, 16 ; proceedings of each House, 

 16; acts passed, 16; letter of Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Williams, 16 ; a case made in court, 16 ; 

 opinions of the judges, 17 ; acts passed after 

 the union, 17; restraining the county tax, 17; 

 relative to loans to railroads, 18 ; State finances, 



18; schools, 19 ; penitentiary, 19; memorial of 

 poor laborers to the President, 19; Colored 

 Labor State Convention, 19; reports of com- 

 mittees, 19. 



XIV. Condition of affairs in the State, 12 ; 

 letter of Charles Hays, member of Congress, 

 12; instances of atrocities, 12; do. in Sumter 

 County, 12; do. in Pickens County, 13 ; do. in 

 other counties, 13 ; statement of Mr. Hays de- 

 nounced, 13; reply of the State Committee, 

 13 ; affidavits, 14 ; Democratic and Conserva- 

 tive Convention, 16; resolutions, 15; nomina- 

 tions, 15 ; Republican State Convention, 15 ; 

 resolutions, 15 ; convention of colored voters, 

 16 ; address and resolutions, 16 ; results of the 

 election, 17; Democratic success, 17; address 

 of the Democratic Executive Committee, 17; 

 biography of Governor Houston, 17; acts of 

 the Legislature, 17; State Treasury, 18; debt, 

 18; railroad bonds indorsed, 18; Alabama & 

 Chattanooga Railroad, 18; other roads, 18. 



XV. Session of the Legislature, 11; pro- 

 test relative to proceedings in Louisiana, 11; 

 memorial to the President relative to the State 

 legislation, 11 ; action of the Legislature, 11 ; 

 resolutions relative 'to the election of Senator 

 Spencer, 12 ; report on the Treasurer's affairs, 

 12; act to regulate elections, 12, 13; impor- 

 tant legislation of the session, 13 ; question of 

 a constitutional convention, 18; decided by an 

 election, 14; assembling of the convention, 

 14; financial condition of the State, 14; rec- 

 ommendations relative to, 14, 15; the Dec- 

 laration of Rights, 15 ; State boundaries, 15 ; 

 local and special legislation, 15 ; executive and 

 judicial departments, 16; qualifications of elec- 

 tors, 16; taxation, 17; education, 17; cor- 

 porations, 17 ; adoption of the constitution, 18 ; 

 vote of the people, 18 ; State debt, 18 ; rail- 

 roads, 18 ; Insane Asylum, 18 ; validity of 

 bonds issued by the city of Montgomery, 18 ; 

 centennial commissioners, 18. 



ALABAMA CLAIMS. XI. (See Diplomatic Cor- 

 respondence) 



XII. (See Diplomatic Correspondence and 

 Foreign Relations ; also President's message, p. 

 695). Debate concerning, in English Parlia- 

 ment, 358; popular excitement in England, 

 359. 



ALASKA. VII. Situation, 36; cession to 

 United States, 36; area, 36; Russian-Ameri- 

 can Company, 36 ; population, 37 ; climate and 

 temperature, 37; agricultural resources, 37; 



