ILLUMINATION. 



INDEMNITY. 



241 



Convention, 403 ; nominations, 403 ; platform, 

 403 ; results of the election, 404 ; cumulative 

 system of voting, 404; debt, 404; equalized 

 assessment of property, 404 ; finances, 405 ; 

 amendments of the school law, 405 ; statistics 

 of education, 406 ; public institutions, 406 ; 

 cost, 406 ; regulation of railroad freights, 406 ; 

 suit against the Chicago & Alton Company, 

 406 ; proceedings, 407 ; views of the Governor 

 on the State policy, 407; statements of the 

 Railroad Commissioners, 407. 



XV. Session of the Legislature, 390; its 

 political division, 390 ; bills, 390 ; propositions 

 relative to the public-school system, 391 ; in- 

 vestigations set on foot, 391 ; information rela- 

 tive to the canals, 391 ; clearances of boats, 

 391 ; transportation of corn, 391 ; rates of 

 freight, 392 ; charitable institutions, 392 ; inter- 

 est on bonds issued to railroads, 392 ; resolu- 

 tions relative to affairs in Louisiana, 392 ; con- 

 stitutional amendments proposed, 392 ; protest 

 against the rulings of the Speaker of the Lower 

 House, 393 ; reply, 394 ; meeting of the Farm- 

 ers' Association, 393 ; resolutions, 393 ; Tem- 

 perance Convention in Chicago, 393 ; insurance 

 companies, 394 ; bankrupt railroads, 394 ; con- 

 stitutionality of the railroad law sustained, 

 394; statistics of assessment returns, 394; 

 acreage, 394; personal property, 394; real 

 estate, 394. 



ILLUMINATION. II. Igniting-point of gas 

 and coal, 520 ; origin and treatment of petro- 

 leum, 520 ; paraffine oils, 521 ; carburation of 

 gas, 522 ; Bassett's carburetting apparatus, 522 ; 

 illuminating gases from petroleum, coal-oil, or 

 from their derivatives, 523 ; gas from petroleum 

 alone, 524; Hill's air-gas, oleo- water gas, and 

 electro - chemical gas, 524; McDougal's fixed 

 gas and atmospheric gas, 524; Elmer's pure 

 illuminating gas, 524 ; air-light for locomotives, 

 525 ; lampe eolienne, 526. 



III. Approximate chemical constitution of 

 bitumens, 512; do. of American petroleum, 

 512; supposed sources of petroleum in certain 

 oil-bearing strata, 513; transportation of petro- 

 leum, 513 ; comparison of illuminants in refer- 

 ence to lighting-power, etc., 513 ; burners for 

 kerosene-lamps, 514 ; apparatus for testing the 

 explosive points of coal-oils, 514 ; do. for frac- 

 tional distillation of coal-oils, 515 ; acetylene, 

 516 ; artificial fuel and gas material, 516 ; meth- 

 ods of gas-manufacture, 516; Griffin's Home- 

 stead Gas-Light, 517; Parrish's improvement 

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in illuminating gases from oils, 517; purifica- 

 tion of illuminating gases, 517. 



IMMIGRATION. IX. Unusually large immi- 

 gration to the United States in 1869, 349 ; im- 

 migration to the United States for a series of 

 years, 349 ; table of nationalities and occupa- 

 tions of immigrants for 1869, 349 ; Commis- 

 sioners of Emigration in New York, 349 ; work 

 of the Labor Exchange for 1868-'69. 350 ; im- 

 migration on the Pacific coast, 350 ; nation- 

 alities and destination of immigrants arriving 

 at the port of New York during 1868 and 1869, 

 350 ; same statistics for each year since 1847, 

 351 ; avowed destination of passengers landed 

 at Castle Garden since 1854, 352 ; remarkable 

 changes in the tide of European emigration and 

 the causes thereof, 352 ; causes in the United 

 States affecting the tide of European emigra- 

 tion, 353 ; occupations of passengers arrived in 

 the United States since 1856, 353 ; effect of 

 immigration on the population of the United 

 States, 354 ; amount of money brought by each 

 immigrant, 354; the question of immigration 

 in the Southern States, 354. 



IMPEACHMENT. VII. Report of the Com- 

 mittee of the House against, 201, 202. 



VIII. House Committee on, 145 ; resolution 

 of the House to impeach President Johnson, 

 352 ; letter of Chief -Justice Chase to the Sen- 

 ate, 352; articles of impeachment, 352-354; 

 rules of procedure and practice in the Senate 

 when sitting on the trial of impeachments, 355 ; 

 organization of the court, 357 ; managers, 357 ; 

 counsel of the President, 358 ; answer of the 

 President to the articles, 358-366 ; replication 

 of the House, 366; proceedings of the trial, 

 367, 368 ; testimony in defence, 369-371 ; testi- 

 mony in rebuttal, 371 ; acquittal, 372. 



INDEMNITY. III. Viewed under two as- 

 pects, 518 ; indemnity act, 518 ; case of Jones 

 vs. Seward, 518 ; opinion of Judge Clerke on 

 motion to remove the case, 518; appeal to 

 General Term, 519 ; opinion of Judge Leonard, 

 519; do. of Judge Sutherland, 520; do. of 

 Judge Clerke, 520 ; case of Marshal Milward, 

 521- ; opinion of Judge Lowrie, 521 ; opinion 

 of Judge Strong on the same case, 522 ; motion 

 to remit the record in the Circuit Court, 522 ; 

 denied, 522 ; opinion of Judge Grier, 522 ; 

 another class of cases, 522 ; claim of W. S. 

 Grant, of Arizona, 523 ; opinion of Judge Wil- 

 mot of the Court of Claims, 523 ; claims of the 

 citizens of Gettysburg, 524 ; further claims, 740. 



