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power to elect himself by force, 203; it is one of a 

 series of acts looking to this object, 203; President's 

 response in justification for declaring martial law in 

 South Carolina, 204; he was asked to communicate 

 what offences, if any, 204; report of the minority of 

 the committee, 204, 205; what is to prevent any State, 

 or city, or county, from being put under martial law ? 

 206; martial law is still maintained in nine counties, 

 206; bill reported without amendment, 206 ; not a 

 charge of violence made for three hundred miles on 

 the Mississippi front since 1868, 206; the charge re- 

 pelled that justice is not administered in Mississippi, 

 207; you still persevere in your unhallowed warfare 

 on the down-trodden people, 207; yet they tell us the 

 Republican party wants peace, 207; an organized 

 society existing in nine States of the Union, 208; its 

 character is completely established, 208; its machin- 

 ery is murder, arson crimes without name, 208; mo- 

 tion to lay the bill on the table lost, 209; the bill is 

 unauthorized by the Constitution, 209; the power can 

 only be exercised when the exigency has arisen, 209; 

 most dangerous power that can be conferred, 209; 

 does the public safety require the interposition of 

 Congress? 210; reasons for voting in favor of the 

 bill, 210; act of 1795, 210; who may suspend the writ? 

 210; is this fourth section constitutional? 211; this 

 right is to be a precedent on the side of liberty or on 

 the side of despotism, 211; can Congress authorize 

 the President to suspend the writ on the happening 

 of certain events of which he is to be the jndge ? 211 ; 

 what is the power of Congress ? 212; it is proposed 

 to pass this bill when a presidential election is pend- 

 ing, 213; it is for the legislative department of the 

 Government to determine when the public safety re- 

 quires the suspension of the writ, 213; constructive 

 rebellion should be condemned as constructive trea- 

 sons are now, 213; what does the bill propose? 214; 

 the right to the writ is the heritage of freemen, 214; 

 bill passed, 214. 



In the House, a motion to suspend the rules and 

 take up the bill lost, 215; apportionment of Repre- 

 sentatives, 215; amnesty bill passed, 216; Congress 

 adjourns, 216. 



CONKEY, WALTER M. Obituary, 636. 



CONKLING, ROSCOE. Senator from New York, 119; on 

 defalcation of Hodge, 126 ; opposes motion to take 

 up amnesty bill, 154. 



Connecticut. A Temperance Convention, 216 ; nomina- 

 tion of candidates for State officers, 216; platform, 

 216; convention of the Labor Reform party, 217; can- 

 didates nominated, 217; resolutions adopted, 217; Re- 

 publican Convention, 217; nominations, 217; plat- 

 form, 217, 218; results of the election, 219; finances, 

 219 ; revenue and expenditures, 219 ; tax for the 

 coming year, 219; taxable property, 219; town and 

 city indebtedness, 219 ; savings-banks, 219 ; State 

 banks, 219; insurance companies, 219; losses of Con- 

 necticut insurance companies by the Chicago fire, 

 219, 220; life-insurance companies doing business in 

 the State, 220; school fund, 220; free school law and 

 school statistics, 220; Normal School, 220; State 

 scholarships at Yale College, 220; the government of 

 Yale College placed in the bands of the alumni, 220; 

 accommodations for the insane, 220; School for Im- 

 beciles, 220; American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, 

 220; statistics relating to the blind, 220; Industrial 

 School for Girls, 220; Reform School for Boys, 221; 

 statistics relating to the same, 221; penitentiary, 221; 

 the Governor's views on the pardoning power, 221; 

 amelioration of the penitentiary system, 221; recom- 



mendations by an examining committee, 221; statis- 

 tics of crime, 221; number of births, 222; of mar- 

 riages, 222; of divorces, 222; of deaths, 222; railroads, 

 222; fisheries, 222; election of United States Senator, 

 222; action on the question of two capitals, 222; reso- 

 lutions adopted by the Democratic and Liberal Re- 

 publican parties, 223; statistics of manufactures, 223; 

 of churches, 223; of libraries, 223; of newspapers, 223; 

 cotton manufactures, 231, 232. 



CONTI, CHARLES ETIENNE. Obituary, 639. 



CONVERSE, Rev. AMASA. Obituary, 635. 



Copenhagen Emigration from, 237; exhibition of indus- 

 try and arts, 239. 



Copper. Production of, in Michigan, 538, 539. 



CORBETT, HENRY W. Senator from Oregon, liy; moves 

 amendment to civil rights amendment, 169. 



Corea. Relations with Japan, 415, 416. 



CORNING, ERASTUS. Birth, death, 223; career, 223; char- 

 acter, 223, 224. 



CORWIN, MOSES B. Obituary, 612. 



COSKERY, Very Rev. HENRY BENEDICT, D. D. Obituary, 

 608. 



Costa Eica. Boundaries, 224; area and population, 224; 

 character of the population, 224; government ofiicials, 

 224; chief articles of export, 224; quantities and value 

 of exports, 224; coffee-crop, 224; imports, 224; port 

 movements, 224; items of national revenue and ex- 

 penditure, 224; foreign debt, 224; income and expen- 

 diture for September, 225 ; lines cf steamers, 225; 

 railway to connect San Josg with the Atlantic coast, 

 225; telegraph from Cartago to Punta Arenas, 225; 

 banks, 225; prohibition in regard to the extraction 

 of India-rubber in the national forests, 225; condition 

 of the treasury, 225; insufficiency of laborers, 225; 

 importation of coolies, 225; bills before the Legisla- 

 ture, 226. 



Cotton. Production and consumption of the United 

 States in 1872, 226; production by States for the last 

 two years, 226; the crop of Sea Island for 1872 by 

 States, 226; the crop of Sea Island for a series of 

 years, 226; how the crop gets to market, 226; the 

 chief ports of shipment, with the amounts exported 

 from each for two years, 226; the overland movement, 

 226; the different routes for shipping cotton north, 

 226, 227; details of the overland movement for 1872, 

 227; table giving the total crop of the United States 

 for a series of years, 227; consumption of cotton in 

 the United States in 1872, 227; table showing the con- 

 sumption by mills for four years, 227; exports of cot- 

 ton to foreign ports for four years, 227; foreign ports 

 to which shipments were made in 1872, 227; cotton in 

 Europe, 228; annual statement of M. Ott-Trumpler, 

 228; stock in European ports, 228; importations into 

 Europe for the last two years, 228; stock in Europe, 

 September 30th, for two years, 228 ; deliveries for 

 consumption, 228 ; cotton visible, September 30th, 

 for two years, 228; weight of cotton in sight, 228; de- 

 tailed imports and consumption in Europe for 1872, 

 228; English consumption for a series of years, 228; 

 Continental consumption for a series of years, 228; 

 fluctuations of the English market in 1872, 229; causes 

 thereof, 229; extent of manufacturing in 1870, com- 

 pared with 1860 and 1850, 229; the most important 

 features of the comparison, 229; products of 1870, 

 compared with those of I860, 229; the crop estimate 

 for 1873 in India, Egypt, Brazil, and the United States, 

 229; table giving special statistics of the cotton man- 

 ufactures in the United States for 1870, 230, 231; cot- 

 ton exports from Brazil, 71; cultivation in California, 

 80; imports into China, 105; imports into Great Brit- 



