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election, 185; regret the Republican party has not 

 risen to the height of applying its principles as a test 

 to all questions, 185; the bill under consideration 

 cannot have a shadow of legal authorization under 

 the Constitution of the United States as it stands to- 

 day, 186 ; no action taken on the bill, 186. 



In the Senate, a bill reported declaring what shall 

 constitute a quorum of the Supreme Court, 186 ; the 

 reason for the bill, 186 ; read third time and passed, 

 186. 



In the House, the bill reported back from the com- 

 mittee with an amendment, 186 ; substitute offered 

 requiring unanimity, 186; as much argument for 

 unanimity as for two-thirds, 186; proposition of a 

 most extraordinary character, 187 ; is action of this 

 sort on the part of Congress by itself constitutional ? 

 187 ; requiring too much that every judge should as- 

 sent, 187 ; amendment as to the number required to 

 declare an act unconstitutional offered, 187 ; the Court 

 holds power by virtue of the fundamental law of the 

 land, and Congress can neither add to nor subtract 

 from it, 188 ; how is the Supreme Court constituted ? 

 188 ; a principle of common law makes a majority 

 necessary for action, 188 ; Congress cannot alter the 

 rule applicable to the Court, 188 ; it has no authority 

 to say what shall constitute a quorum of the Supreme 

 Court, 188 ; the first section not challenged, 189 ; what 

 is the power of Congress over the Supreme Court ? 

 189 ; last amendment requiring unanimity rejected, 

 190 ; amendment requiring a majority adopted, 190. 



In the Senate, the bill was referred to the Judiciary 

 Committee and not further considered, 190. 



In the Senate, a bill to amend the act of 1789 passed, 

 190 ; it took away the appeal from the Circuit Court, 

 etc., 190; amendment, 190; veto of President John- 

 son, 190; considered in the Senate, 191; the bill 

 repeals the clause which allows a party in any case 

 an appeal to the Supreme Court where his liberty is 

 withheld from him in violation of the Constitution or 

 any law or treaty, 191 ; a foreigner has this appeal in 

 similar cases before our courts, 192 ; the object of this 

 is to reach the McCardle case, 192 ; bill passed in the 

 Senate, 193. 



In the House, the veto message considered, 193 ; 

 bill passed, 193. 



In the House, a resolution reported from the Recon- 

 struction Committee relative to the representation of 

 the Southern States in the electoral college, 194; 

 adopted, 194 ; adopted by the Senate, 194 ; veto of 

 President Johnson, 194 ; passed by both Houses over 

 the veto, 195. 



In the Senate, the resolution of the Legislature of 

 Ohio, withdrawing its assent to the fourteenth article 

 of the amendment to the Constitution presented, 196 ; 

 voice of a partisan majority in the General Assembly, 

 196; without a precedent in history, 196; accom- 

 plished nothing, 196; before the assent of three- 

 fourths, any State can withdraw its assent, 196 ; reso- 

 lution referred to the Judiciary Committee, 196. 



In the House, a resolution offered that the resolution 

 of the New Jersey Legislature, withdrawing its assent 

 to the constitutional amendment, be referred to only 

 by its title in the journal, 196 ; adopted, 196. 



In the Senate, a resolution declaring the adoption 

 of the fourteenth amendment, 197; adopted, 197; 

 adopted in the House, 197 ; proclamation by the Sec- 

 retary of State, 197. 



In the House, a bill reported to repeal the tax on 

 cotton, 198; an exceptional tax, 198; the time has 

 arrived to remove it, 198 ; a bounty for the products 



of India, Egypt, and Brazil, 198 ; a mistake, 198 ; timo 

 of repeal discussed, 198 ; bill passed, 199. 



In the Senate, the bill considered, 199 ; applies to 

 the future crop, 199 ; better to take the tax off manu- 

 factured cotton than from the raw material, 200 ; not 

 a political question, 200 ; amendments adopted, 201 ; 

 assent refused by the House, 201 ; conference com- 

 mittee not able to agree, 201 ; a new conference agreed 

 to, 201 ; report agreed to by the Senate and rejected 

 by the House, 202 ; further conference, 202 ; report 

 accepted, 202. 



Other measures of Congress, 202 ; eight-hour law, 

 202; vacancy in the office of Chief Justice, 202; 

 Freedmen's Bureau, 202; expatriation, 202; oath of 

 office for restored people of Southern States, 202; 

 adjournment, 202. 



CONKLING, ROSCOE. Senator from New York, 201 ; on 

 the cotton tax, 201. 



Connecticut. Political movements, 202 ; Republican State 

 Convention, 202 ; resolutions, 202 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 203 ; nominations, 203 ; resolutions, 203 ; 

 elections, 203; public schools, 203; closing of the 

 Normal School, 204 ; a Training School, 204 ; returns 

 of towns, 204 ; expenditures, 204 ; absenteeism, 204 ; 

 law of the State to prevent the evil, 204 ; State debt, 

 204 ; charitable institutions, 204. 



COOKE, HENRY. Birth, 205 ; pursuits, 205 ; death, 205. 



COQUEREL, ATHANASE L. C. Birth, 205 ; death, 205 ; writ- 

 ings, 206. 



Cotton, Crop of the year, 206 ; increase, 206 ; exports, 

 206 ; quantity on hand, 206 ; consumption by Ameri- 

 can mills, 207; prices for a series of years, 207. 



COVODE, JOHN. Representative from Pennsylvania, 124 ; 

 offers a resolution to impeach the President, 137. 



CRANWORTH, ROBERT M. R. Birth, 207 ; death, 207 ; pur- 

 suits, 207. 



CRAWFORD, JOHN. Birth, 207; death, 207; career, 207. 



CUSHMAN, ROBERT W. Birth, 208 ; death, 208 ; pursuits, 

 208. 



Customs (ZolT) Parliament. How composed, 208 ; results 

 of the elections, 208 ; opening of the Parliament, 208 ; 

 division of parties, 208 ; speech of the King, 208 ; offi- 

 cers, 209 ; debates on the electoral laws, 209 ; address 

 moved in reply to the King's speech, 209 ; treaty be- 

 tween Prussia and Spain, 209 ; deficit in the budget, 

 210 ; tax on tobacco, 210 ; address of the King, 210 ; 

 festivities, 210; report of South-German deputies, 

 210. 



DANA, SAMUEL L. Birth, 211 ; death, 211 ; career, 211. 



DAVIS, GARRET. Senator from Kentucky, 124 ; offers a 

 resolution on the incapacity of the Senate to try im- 

 peachment, 146 ; on reconstruction, 147. 



Delaware. Financial condition, 212 ; property of the 

 State, 212 ; income, 212 ; appropriations, 212 ; poli- 

 tics of the Legislature, 212 ; Democratic Convention, 

 212 ; resolutions, 212 ; Republican Convention, 212 ; 

 resolutions, 212 ; elections, 212. 



Denmark. The Government, 212 ; area, 212 ; population, 

 212; budget, 212; army, 212 ; navy, 212 ; commerce, 

 212; session of the Diet, 213; speech of the King, 213. 



Denmark, The Press of, in 1868. Number of journals in 

 the kingdom, 213; circulation, 213; largest daily, 

 213; sums paid to the press, 213; unparalleled sale, 

 214; two classes of papers, 214 ; difference between 

 them, 214; aggregate circulation, 214; the press 

 laws, 214; extension of telegraph lines, 214 ; literary 

 and scientific journals, 214. 



