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military force, 592 ; finances and public debt, 

 592 ; railroads, 592 ; future qualification of 

 voters, 592 ; State University at Columbia, 593 ; 

 Common School Fund, 593 ; Military Institute, 

 593 ; Board of Immigration, 593. 



VI. Views of the Legislature on national 

 affairs, 524 ; on frauds at the ballot-box, 524 ; 

 on the test -oath, 543 ; disorders in the State, 

 524; communication of the Governor, 524; 

 legality of the new constitution before the 

 courts, 524; other cases before the courts, 

 525 ; arrest for violation of the test-oath act, 

 525 ; releases, 525 ; views of the Governor on 

 the test-oath, 525 ; State election, 526 ; militia 

 organization, 526 ; finances, 526 ; taxable 

 wealth, 526 ; receipts, 526 ; debt, 526 ; rail- 

 road interests, 527 ; the Federal constitutional 

 amendment, 527. 



VII. Disturbances in the State, 520 ; meas- 

 ures for their suppression, 520, 521 ; Legisla- 

 ture, 521 ; the test-oath before the Legislature 

 and the courts, 521 ; case of F. P. Blair, Jr., 

 and opinion of Judge Wagner in the case, 521 ; 

 case of Rev. Mr. Cummings, and opinion of 

 Judge Holmes, 522 ; impeachment of Judge 

 King, 522 ; finances of the State, 522 ; public 

 schools, 523 ; Agricultural College, 523 ; sale of 

 interest in certain railroads, 523 ; proposed 

 bridge at St. Louis, 523 ; state of parties, 523 ; 

 Democratic meeting and resolutions, 523; 

 election in Third Congressional District, 524. 



VIII. Population, 517; immigration, 517 ; 

 assessed value of property, 517 ; railroads, 

 517 ; aid of the Legislature, 517 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 518; public schools, 518; registra- 

 tion act, 518 ; its features, 518, 519 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 519 ; Republican Conven- 

 tion, 520; resolutions, 520; second conven- 

 tion, 520 ; resolutions, 520 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 521 ; nominations, 521 ; resolutions, 

 521 ; registration, 521 ; result of the election, 

 521 ; taxation of the State University, 521 ; 

 opinion of the court, 521 ; statue of Thomas 

 H. Benton unveiled, 521. 



IX. Natural advantages, 463; population, 

 463 ; encouragement of immigration, 463 ; value 

 of taxable property, 463 ; financial condition, 

 463 ; railroad bonds, 464 ; correspondence be- 

 tween the fund commissioners and the Attor- 

 ney-General as to the payment of the interest 

 on railroad bonds, 464 ; advance in the value 

 of State bonds, 464 ; railroad improvements, 

 464 ; public instruction, 465 ; public and private 



schools, 465 ; school fund, 465 ; school lands, 

 465 ; charitable institutions, 466 ; law for the 

 suppression of prize-fighting, 466 ; restoration 

 of the original seal of the State, 466 ; corre- 

 spondence concerning the same between ex- 

 Lieutenant-Governor Reynolds and Governor 

 McClurg, 466 ; ratification of the fifteenth 

 amendment, 466 ; question as to the validity 

 of the same, 466 ; recommendation of the Gov- 

 ernor for an extension of the elective franchise 

 to negroes, 467; also a removal of political 

 disabilities from all citizens, 467; legislation 

 in reference to the liability of stockholders in 

 private corporations, 467 ; the question of a 

 Constitutional Convention, 467 ; the adminis- 

 tration of the registration laws denounced, 

 467. 



X. Political history during 1870, 516 ; de- 

 cision of United States Supreme Court on test- 

 oath, 517; Gratz Brown movement, 517; con- 

 stitutional amendments enfranchising rebels, 

 517; sectarian appropriations forbidden, 518; 

 Democratic address, 518 ; Republican Conven- 

 tion, 519; resolutions proposed, 519; split, 

 519 ; resolutions and nominees of radical wing, 

 620 ; same of " bolters," 520 ; action of Presi- 

 dent Grant, 520 ; resolutions of radical County 

 Convention, 521 ; Governor McClurg's letter 

 defining his position, 521 ; result of election, 

 621 ; Brown's address after election, 521 ; 

 meeting of Legislature, 522 ; education, 522 ; 

 United States census, 522 ; commerce of St. 

 Louis, 522 ; manufactures in the city, 523 ; 

 mining interests of the State, 523 ; railroads, 

 523 ; finances, 523 ; school-fund, 523 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 524. 



XL Session of Legislature, 627 ; registra- 

 tion act, 627 ; other measures, 527, 528 ; 

 finances, 528 ; schools, 528 ; public institutions, 

 528 ; railroads, 528 ; details of census, 529 ; 

 mineral wealth, 530 ; session of the Legisla- 

 ture, 530 ; adjournment, 530 ; division of the 

 Republicans, 530 ; principles of the Liberal 

 wing, 530 ; address, 531 ; Democratic address, 

 531. 



XII. Public debt, 549 ; resolutions of the 

 Legislature redeeming the bonds falling due in 

 1872, 549 ; suit to compel their payment in 

 specie, 549 ; opinion of the court, 549 ; re- 

 ceipts into the Treasury, and expenditures, 

 550 ; agricultural statistics for 1872, 550 ; tax- 

 able property of railroads, 550 ; session of 

 Legislature, 550 ; veto by the Governor of the 



