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vention, 422; Democratic Convention, 422; 

 elections, 423. 



VII. Financial condition, 418 ; educational 

 interests, 419; charitable institutions, 419; 

 railroads, 419 ; Indian depredations, 419 ; ac- 

 tion of the Legislature, 419 ; proposed amend- 

 ments to the constitution, 420 ; claims arising 

 from General Price's raid, 420; question of 

 impartial suffrage, 420 ; temperance question, 

 420 ; issues in the election, 420 ; result of the 

 election, 420. 



VIII. Action of the Legislature, 399 ; finan- 

 cial condition, 399 ; claims against the Federal 

 Government, 400 ; taxable property, 400 ; pro- 

 ductions of 1867, 400 ; new Capitol, 400 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 400 ; condition of the public schools, 

 400 ; railroads, 400 ; bore the brunt of the In- 

 dian War, 401 ; Republican Convention, 401 ; 

 Democratic Convention, 401 ; elections, 401. 



IX. Financial condition, 374; schools, 374; 

 charitable institutions, 374 ; recommendations 

 of the Governor to the Legislature, 375 ; rail- 

 roads, 375 ; water-route to the Atlantic Ocean, 

 375 ; ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 

 375 ; grape-culture, 375 ; salt, 375 ; production 

 of wheat, 375. 



X. Meeting and doings of Legislature, 418 ; 

 revenue bill, 418; Indian reservation troubles, 

 418; Cherokee neutral lands, 419 ; report of 

 commissioners appointed by Legislature, 419 ; 

 action thereon, 419 ; congressional action as 

 to sale of Indian reserved lands, 420 ; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 420 ; nominees, 420 ; resolu- 

 tions, 420 ; defeat of Sidney Clarke as candi- 

 date for Congress, 420; card of Republican 

 State Committee on alleged attempt of Mr. 

 Clarke to disrupt the party, 421 ; Democratic 

 nominations, 421 ; election returns, 421 ; United 

 States census, 421 ; finances, 421 ; education, 

 421 ; charitable and reformatory institutions, 

 422 ; railroads, 422. 



XI. Finances, 426 ; session of the Legisla- 

 ture, 426; measures, 426, 427; new apportion- 

 ment for members of Legislature, 427 ; educa- 

 tion, 427 ; railroads, 427, 428 ; Supreme Court 

 decides municipal aid to railroads constitu- 

 tional, 428, 429 ; census statistics of 1870, 429 ; 

 Indian troubles, 429, 430 ; public institutions, 

 430. 



XII. Comparison of material prosperity of 

 1872 with that of 1862, 419 ; session of the 

 Legislature, 420; usury law amended, 420; 

 passage of the herd law, 420 ; the apportion- 



ment bill, 420 ; investigation of the alleged 

 corruption in the election of a United States 

 Senator, 419, 420 ; appointment of a joint com- 

 mittee, 421 ; report of the committee, 421, 422 ; 

 the report and evidence ordered to be laid be- 

 fore the United States Senate, 422 ; Republi- 

 can Convention and resolutions, 422 ; State 

 Convention of " Liberals " and resolutions, 

 423 ; Democratic Convention and resolutions, 

 423 ; convention of colored citizens, 423 ; reso- 

 lutions, 423 ; Republican State Convention, 

 ticket and platform, 424 ; Democratic and Lib- 

 eral Republican Conventions, 424 ; results of 

 the election, 424 ; finances, 424 ; schools, 424 ; 

 State University, 425 ; State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, 425 ; Asylum for the Insane, 425 ; for 

 the Blind, 425 ; penitentiary, 425 ; statistics of 

 libraries, 425 ; of churches, 425 ; of pauperism 

 and crime, 425 ; of occupations, 425. 



XIII. Bribery in the senatorial elections, 

 894; reelection of Senator Pomeroy, 894; 

 speech of Colonel York, 394, 395 ; effect of the 

 speech, 895 ; public meeting to express thanks, 

 395 ; letters of S. C. Pomeroy, 895 ; action of 

 the Legislature, 896 ; remarks of Senator Pom- 

 eroy in the United States Senate, 896 ; com- 

 mittee of investigation appointed, 396 ; explana- 

 tion of Pomeroy's interview with York, 396 ; 

 report of the committee, 396 ; charges against 

 Senator Caldwell, 396 ; action of the Senate, 

 896 ; the Farmers' State Convention, 396 ; 

 resolutions, 897 ; a permanent association 

 formed, 397 ; amendments to the State consti- 

 tution, 397 ; R. Crozier appointed Federal 

 Senator, 397 ; Auditor's report, 397 ; railroads 

 in the State, 398 ; schools, 898 ; assessments of 

 property, 398. 



XIV. Meeting of the Legislature, 434 ; civil- 

 rights act, 434 ; other measures, 434 ; destruc- 

 tion by grasshoppers, 434 ; State aid afforded, 

 434 ; bonded debt, 434 ; acres of land in or- 

 ganized counties, 435 ; valuation, 435 ; tax, 

 435 ; railroads, 435 ; school districts, 435 ; In- 

 sane Asylum, 435 ; Independent Reform Con- 

 vention, 435 ; nominations, 435 ; platform, 

 435 ; Republican Convention, 436 ; nomina- 

 tions, 436 ; platform, 436 ; results of the elec- 

 tion, 437 ; trouble with the Indians, 437. 



XV. State census, 412 ; agricultural statis- 

 tics, 412; finances, 412; bonded debt, 412; 

 Blind Asylum, 413; schools and pupils, 413; 

 constitutional amendments, 413 ; adopted, 413 ; 

 bounty relief act, 413; officers of the State 



