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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



COLTON, Rev. HENRY MARTTK. Obituary, 619. 



COLVOCORESSES, Captain GEORGE M., U. S. N. Obit- 

 uary, 620. 



COLWELL, STEPHEN. Birth, death, 112; works, 112; ca- 

 reer, 112, 113. 



COMBE, THOMAS, M. A. Obituary, 647. 



Comet (BIELA'S). Discovery of, 113; confirmation of 

 Schiaparelli's theory concerning meteoric showers, 

 113; observations by Mr. Poyson, 113; views of a 

 writer in the Cornhill Magazine, 113. 



Commerce of the United States. General commerce of 

 the country, 114; summaries of the last two fiscal 

 years, 114; respective amounts of each year, 114; 

 foreign commerce for two years, 114; entrances and 

 clearances, 114; commerce at New York, 114; imports 

 at New York for a series of years, 114; tables of 

 monthly summaries for four years, at New York, 114; 

 entered for consumption, 114; entered for ware- 

 housing, 115; free goods, 115; specie, 115; total im- 

 ports, 115 ; withdrawal from warehouse, 115 ; classi- 

 fied imports, 115; receipts of customs at New York, 

 115; monthly exports from New York to foreign ports 

 for four years, 115; foreign, free, 116; foreign, dutia- 

 ble, 116; specie and bullion, 116; quarterly summary 

 of exports from New York, 116; committee of inves- 

 tigation and retrenchment appointed in the Senate, 

 134. 



Congregattonalists.P\an agreed upon by which the 

 churches in the West may participate more directly 

 in the work of the Society, 116; collections for the 

 American Home Missionary Society. 116; missionary 

 work, 116; the Woman's Board of Missions, 117; 

 receipts of the American Congregational Union, 117; 

 receipts of the American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, 117; cost of missions, 117; sum- 

 mary of missions, 117 1 ; laborers employed, 117 ; num- 

 ber of churches, 117; educational department, 117; 

 work done, 117; colleges, 117; w?rk of the Society 

 at home, 117; in foreign missions, 117; work among 

 the Indians, 118 ; meeting of the Union of Ontario and 

 Quebec; statistics, 118; annual meeting of the Union 

 of England and Wales, 118 ; conference in London of 

 Baptists and Congregationalists, 118 ; meeting of the 

 Union of Scotland, 118 ; statistics of Congregational 

 churches in 1872, 118. 



Congress, United States. Commencement of the session, 

 119; list of members, 119 ; resolution calling upon 

 the President for information relative to the suspen- 

 sion of the laws in South Carolina, 119; object of the 

 resolution, 120; large numbers of citizens arrested 

 for alleged offences, 120; resolution answered yester- 

 day in the President's message, 120; the resolution 

 asks for details, 120; no report made by the commit- 

 tee, 120; resolution lost, 120. 



A committee on insurrectionary States proposed, 

 121; no such States, 121; such a committee appointed 

 and continued at a previous session, 121; the evils 

 seem to continue in spite of the best efforts of the 

 committee, 121; not a side-wind to continue a com- 

 mittee, 121. 



Special committee on telegraphy proposed, 121; the 

 Post-Office Committee the proper one, 121; a matter 

 involving millions of dollar?, 121; immense patron- 

 age which is contemplated, 122; every post-office to 

 be a telegraph-station, 122; all to come under the 

 control of the Post-Office Department, 122; referred 

 to Committee on Appropriations, 122. 



Petition of colored citizens of Brooklyn, 123; peti- 

 tion relative to Howard University, 123; an end should 

 be put to this outrage, 123. 



Motion to fix the time of adjournment, 123; amend- 

 ment offered, 123; proceedings suspended, 124. 



Resolution of inquiry relative to the expenditures 

 of the Government, 124; laid over, 124. 



Resolution to orovide for an immediate reduction 

 of taxation, etc., 124; lost, 124. 



Resolution relative to civil-service reform offered, 

 125; laid on the table, 125. 



Resolution that the President open negotiations for 

 the purchase of Cuba offered, 125; laid on the table, 

 125. 



Resolution to recognize the thirteenth, fourteenth, 

 and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution as valid, 

 offered, 125; adopted, 125. 



In the Senate, resolution relative to the defalcation 

 of Paymaster Hodge offered, 126; amendment offered 

 for the appointment of a committee to inquire into 

 the expenditures of all branches of the service of the 

 United States, 126; should follow up the investiga- 

 tions begun in regard to the use of patronage, 126; 

 no unusual thing for appointments to be held up in 

 this body until other appointments are made, 126; 

 remedies to be suggested against robberies by offi- 

 cials, 126; throughout the land an impression that 

 corruption exists in the public service, 127; what is 

 the precise point of discussion here? 127; what is 

 the most effectual method to purify each department ? 

 127; where shall you draw the line between appoint- 

 ing a man on account of his political status, or some 

 other reason ? 127; the point of the present question, 

 127; subject postponed, 128. 



In the Senate, a resolution to appoint a standing 

 committee of investigation and retrenchment, 128; 

 this committee should be vested with the same 

 powers as were conferred on the joint select com- 

 mittee, 128; motion made so to amend, 128; better 

 be appointed as all committees are appointed, 128; 

 let this committee stand like all others, 128; every 

 one knows what retrenchment means, 128; why have 

 a division here on this subject? 129; the committee, 

 as first proposed, will have cognizance of nothing but 

 what shall be referred to it specifically, 129; I want 

 to vest the power originally in the committee, so they 

 shall have it without their attention being particular- 

 ly called to a subject, 129; this is merely a technical 

 difference, 129 ; presidential campaign opened in 

 form, 130; attempt to open the eyes of the people to 

 the evil times, 130; this Administration will compare 

 with any previous one in integrity, 130; the objec- 

 tions to the amendment are surprising, 130; a com- 

 mittee on retrenchment with euch powers was or- 

 ganized five years ago, 131; for years, without a dis- 

 senting voice, the Senate has been conferring such 

 powers, 131; we are standing at the threshold of a 

 great moral revolution in our political life, 131; such 

 power has never been committed to a standing com- 

 mittee of this body as the amendment proposes, 132; 

 the drift of this debate is a reflection on the Republi- 

 can party, 132; my object is to uncover and denounce 

 every abuse, 132; whence this bugbear that is raised 

 before our eyes? 133; a reflection on the Republican 

 party! how so? 133; amendment rejected, 133; reso- 

 lution adopted, 133. 



Amendment moved as an independent proposition, 

 133; astonished at the position taken by some mem- 

 bers of this body, 133; the resolution is in aid of 

 purifying the public service, 134; I cannot permit 

 those with whom I act to be put in a false position, 

 134; no final action taken on the resolution as an in- 

 dependent proposition, 134. 



