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from the incoming Administration, 178 ; operation of 

 the new doctrine that the President has not the 

 power of removal, 178; our experience, 178 ; conse- 

 quences of the assassination of Lincoln, 179; practice 

 of the Government on the power of removal, 179; 

 amendments offered and rejected, 180 ; bill laid aside 

 during this session, 180. 



In the Senate, a bill for equal rights in the District 

 of Columbia passed, 180. 



In the Senate, a resolution considered relative to 

 the public credit, 181 ; extract from the President's 

 message, 181 ; proposition to pay the interest simply, 

 181 ; the platform of a political party, 181 ; object of 

 the resolution to express disapprobation of the Pres- 

 ident's message, 182 ; amendments proposed, 182 ; 

 resolution agreed to, 183. 



In the House, resolution offered relative to repudia- 

 tion, and passed, 183, 184; a bill to strengthen the 

 public credit reported, 184 ; what is intended by this 

 legislation, any thing or nothing, 185 ; bill passed, 186. 



In the Senate, House 'bill to strengthen the public 

 credit, reported, 186 ; amendments, 186 ; bill passed, 

 187; House refuse to concur, and a conference held, 

 and a new bill reported, 187 ; explanation of it, 187 ; 

 protest against its passage, 188 ; undertake to bind 

 the Government to a material modification of the con- 

 tract to the benefit of the creditor and detriment of 

 the people, 183 ; did the people of the country expect 

 these bonds to be paid in depreciated paper ? 189 ; 

 bill passed in both Houses, 190. 



Joint resolution relative to persons holding offices 

 in Virginia and Texas passed and sent to the Presi- 

 dent, 190. 



The first session of Forty-first Congress convened, 

 191 ; message from the President, 191 ; bill for the 

 further protection of equal rights in the District of 

 Columbia passed both Houses, 192. 



In the Senate, a bill to repeal the Tenure-of-office 

 Act considered, 192 ; a suspension recommended in- 

 stead of a repeal, 192; not a subject for legislation, 

 193 ; what is proposed to do, 193 ; report recommitted, 

 193; new bill reported, amendment agreed to, 194; 

 object of the amendment, 194 ; explanation of the bill, 

 194 ; bill passed in both Houses, 195. 



A bill to strengthen the public credit considered, 

 196 ; amendments offered, 196 ; a bill passed in the 

 lower House, 197 ; in the Senate, substituted for the 

 Senate bill, and passed, 197. 



In the House, a motion to suspend the rules for a 

 resolution relative to Mongolians to be introduced, 

 was lost, 197 ; message from the President, on recon- 

 struction, 198; bill reported and passed,. 198-200. 



In the House, a resolution relative to Cuba, 

 adopted, 202. 

 CONKLING, ROSCOE. Senator from New York, 120; on 



the bill to repeal the tenure-of-office law, 177. 

 Connecticut. Public affairs, 202 ; finances, 202 ; debt, 202 ; 

 expenditures, 202; claims, 202;- militia, 202; public 

 schools, 202 ; Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Col- 

 lege, 203 ; banks, 203 ; insurance, 203 ; charitable in- 

 stitutions, 203; State Reform School, 204; State 

 Prison, 204 ; recommendations in Governor's iSes- 

 eage, 204 ; meeting of the Legislature, 205 ; ratifica- 

 tion of the fifteenth amendment, 205 ; resolutions of 

 the Democratic State Convention, 205; Republican, 

 resolutions, 206 ; election returns, 206. 

 CONNESS, JOHN. Senator from California, 120 ; moves an 



amendment to the fifteenth amendment, 166. 

 CORBETT, HENRY W. Senator from Oregon, 120; offers 

 an amendment to the fifteenth amendment, 166. 

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Cotton. Falling off of the crop in 1869, 206 ; causes, 207; 

 consumption of cotton in the United States in 1869, 

 207; exhibit of cotton manufactures in the United 

 States for 1869, 207 ; crop for the past two years, 207, 

 208 ; crop of Sea Island cotton, 208 ; consumption in 

 ' Great Britain, 208 ; exportation, 208 ; prices for 1869, 

 208 ; production in foreign countries, 208. 



Counting the vote for President and Vice-President, 172. 



CBAGIN, AARON H. Senator from New Hampshire, 120 ; 

 offers an amendment to the Constitution, 120; on 

 fifteenth amendment, 162. 



Cuba. Area, 208 ; population, 208 ; government, 208 ; chief 

 towns, 208 ; commencement of the insurrection of 

 1868, 208; document of the "Junta of the Laborers, 

 208 ; proclamation of the Spanish Captain-General, 

 209 ; its effect, 209 ; movement of troops under Val- 

 maseda and Quesada, 209 ; freedom of the press 

 abolished, 209 ; successes of the insurgents, 209 ; naval 

 expedition from Havana against the insurgents at La 



' Guanaja, 210; defeat of the insurgents near Santa 



',. Cruz, 210 ; emigration of Cubans, 210 ; suffering of the 

 people in the country, 210 ; advance of General Lesca 

 and engagement at Sierra de Cubitas, 210 ; strength of 

 the rebel forces under Quesada, 210; force under 

 Cespedes, 210 ; abolition of slavery by the insurgent 

 Assembly of Representatives, 210; address of the 

 Supreme Junta of Cuba to President Grant, asking 

 for belligerent rights and a recognition of their inde- 

 pendence, 210 ; advance of the Spanish troops against 

 the rebels, 211 ; proclamation of General Dulce, mak- 

 ing important changes in taxation, 211 ; mode of 

 warfare of the insurgents, 211 ; routing of the rebels 

 at Potrerillo, 211 ; concentration of the government 

 forces in the Villa Clara district, 211 ; no organized 



"" " government of the insurgents, 211 ; victory of the 

 government troops at Placetas, 212 ; address of.Gen- 

 eral Cespedes resigning his provisional authority aa 

 general-in-chief and chief of the government, 212; 



, Cespedes elected President of the " Republic of ( 

 Cuba," 212 ; Quesada commander-in-chief, 212 ; proc- 

 lamation of Cespedes on assuming the presidency, 

 212 ; proclamation of Quesada to the army, 213 ; 

 severe proclamation of Valmaseda, 213 ; engagement 

 at Alta Gracia, 214 ; desperate battle at Las Minas and 

 victory of Quesada, 214; expedition fitted out in the 

 United States under General Jordan, arrives at May- 

 ari with guns and stores for the Cubans, 214 ; defeat 



?? of the Spaniards near Puerto Padre, 214 ; Captain- 

 General Dulce determines to leave Cuba, 214 ; Gen- 

 eral Caballero de Rodas appointed his successor, 214 ; 

 decree of Rodas to prevent assistance from foreign 



If countries to the insurgents, 215 ; second decree, 

 announcing his policy, 215; Cubans reenforced by 

 volunteers from the United States, 215 ; decree of 

 the Constituent Cortes, declaring religious liberty, 

 215 ; expeditions from the United States, 216 ; burn- 

 ing of sugar-plantations, 216 ; reorganization of the 

 Cuban Junta in New York, 216 ; sympathy in South 

 America for the Cuban insurgents, 216 ; sympathy in 



.1 the United States, 216. 



DAVIS, GARRET. Senator from Kentucky, 123 ; on the 

 fifteenth amendment, 134, 136-138, 148, 154-156 ; on 

 the bill to strengthen the public credit, 186. 



DELANGLE, CLAUDE ALPHONSE. Birth, 216 ; death, 216 ; 

 career, 217. 



Delaware. Legislature, 217; rejection of the fifteenth 

 amendment, 217; important tax-bills passed, 217; 



