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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Colombia. Boundaries, 131; area, 131; height of the An- 

 des, 131; Cauca Valley, 131; river Magdalena, 131; 

 population, 132; revenue 132; tariff, 132; expendi- 

 tures, 133; institutions of credit, 133; debt, 133; com- 

 merce, 134; articles of export, 134; topography of the 

 country, 135; railways, 135; coinage, 135; mines, 136; 

 manufactures, 136; constitution, 137; government, 

 137; boundary-line with Venezuela, 138; religion, 138 ; 

 proceedings of Congress, 138; President's message, 

 139 ; schools, 139, 140. 



Colorado. Government, 140; climate, 140; second cli- 

 matic division, 140; diseases, 141; sources of wealth, 

 141; schools, 141; railroads, 141. 



Commerce. Vessels and tonnage of the several customs 

 districts in the United States, 141; total imports and 

 exports, 142, 143. 



CONCHA, MANUEL DE LA. Birth, 143; public career, 144; 

 death, 144. 



Congregatlbnalists. Meeting of National Council, 144; in- 

 crease of churches, 144; Brooklyn council, 145; pro- 

 ceedings, 145; question for decision, 145; decision, 

 146; extracts, 146; sixth National Council, 147; con- 

 solidation of benevolent societies, 147; proceedings, 

 147; dates of general councils, 147; Board of Foreign 

 Missions, 148; home missions, 148; Congregational 

 Union of Ontario and Quebec, 148; do. of England and 

 Wales, 148; on ritualism, 149; statistics in the United 

 States, 149. 



Congress, International, in Belgium, 90. 



Congress, United States. First session of the Forty-third, 

 150; resolutions on arbitration, 151; resolutions on 

 finance, 151. 



In the House, the bill to repeal the increase of cer- 

 tain salaries considered, 151 ; the subject has attract- 

 ed much public attention, 151; this one act has been 

 deemed an unpardonable Bin, 151; unstinted abuse, 

 152; nothing in the law immoral or dishonest, 152; 

 five Congresses have increased salaries, 152; the Con- 

 stitution allows each Congress to fix its salary, 152; 

 the people are unwilling to pay it, 152; they are will- 

 ing we should have a fair salary, 153 ; the people had 

 no opportunity to pass on the bill, 153; a substitute 

 for the bill, 153; what does the bill propose, 153; that 

 members shall keep the pay, 153; will this satisfy the 

 people? 153; unfortunate time to make the increase, 

 154; the substitute proposes that members shall ac- 

 count for what they have received, 154; the morality 

 of the act, 155; do not see it, 155; it was a constitu- 

 tional law, 155; what the services of a representative 

 of the people ought to be worth, 155; the Govern- 

 ment should offer fair compensation, 156; what we 

 mean by public opinion, 157 ; the individual should not 

 be servile, 157; we should not be driven or swayed by 

 unjust clamor, 158; the necessities of the Govern- 

 ment, 158; bill recommitted with instructions, 158; 

 another bill reported, 158 ; the committee followed 

 out the instructions, 159; amendment offered, 159; 

 the original bill was right, 159; the pay of members 

 is not too high, 160; during ten years, with economy, 

 not a dollar saved, 160; let reasons be given why this 

 law should be repealed, 160; it is Hot true statesman- 

 ship to bow to a storm, 160; there is a higher law 

 than the people speakingthrongh the press, 160; pub- 

 lic opinion, what crimes has it not committed ? 161 ; 

 the provisions of the law were condemned by popular 

 clamor, 161; amendment adopted, 162; other amend- 

 ments, 162; substitute agreed to, 162; question on the 

 passage of the bill, 162; passage of the first bill un- 

 fortunate, 163; this proposition evades the public de- 

 mand, 163; bill passed, 164. 



In the Senate, amendments proposed to the bill, 

 164; has Congress any power to reclaim the pay of 

 members? 164; have the control of the question dur- 

 ing the entire term of Congress, 164; have no power 

 to touch compensation paid out of the Treasury by 

 law, 164; effect of the amendment to charge members 

 for next year, 165; the amendment creates no ine- 

 quality in the pay of members, 165; difference be- 

 tween members and the President, 165; if a man re- 

 ceives his salary, does it not become private proper- 

 ty ? 166; the amendment proposes equalization, 166; 

 what does the Constitution say ? 167; no defect in the 

 law ever claimed, 167; what is this amendment? 168; 

 a word as to back pay, 168; look at practical results, 

 169; fix the pay from this time out, 169; history of 

 the compensation of members, 169; the complaint of 

 inequality, 169; best to restore the original salary and 

 the ordinary allowances, 170; the amendment is cor- 

 rect, 170; will the courts set aside our action? 171; 

 salaries of judges and the President, 171; amendment 

 to the amendment rejected, 171; further amendment 

 offered, 171; rejected, 172; other amendments, 172; 

 votes, 173; bill passed, 174. 



In the House, the amendments of the Senate con- 

 sidered, 174 ; their effect, 174 ; practically a new bill, 

 174 ; concurred in, 174 ; title amended, 174. 



In the House, the bill to establish an educational 

 fund considered, 174; one-fourth the voters of the 

 country unable to read and write, 175 ; two main ob- 

 jects to be reached by the bill, 175 ; to set apart the 

 national domain to education, 175 ; statistics of illit- 

 eracy, 175 ; distribution of the lands, 176 ; mechanism 

 of the bill, 176 ; reports made to the Government, 

 176 ; this is a new departure, 176 ; cannot rely on the 

 General Government to foster free-school develop- 

 ment, 177; homestead and preemption policy, 177; 

 does any one desire to further centralize this Govern- 

 ment ? 177; this is a stretch of power, 178 ; the prin- 

 ciples of this bill may put us under a majority who do 

 not appreciate our school-district system, 178 ; high 

 time the land question be considered apart from all 

 such propositions, 178; whoever opposes the civil- 

 rights bill must oppose this one, 179; failure of the 

 bill to pass, 179. 



In the Senate, resolutions that it is the duty of Con- 

 gress to adopt definite measures to redeem United 

 States notes in coin at once, considered, 179 ; amend- 

 ment that the committee be instructed to report such 

 measures as will restore confidence, 179 ; report of 

 minority of Finance Committee, 180 ; one resolution 

 contemplates legislation with regard to the currency, 

 while the other looks only to measures for the re- 

 demption of the existing currency in coin, 180 ; it is 

 five years since Congress made the pledge of redemp- 

 tion, 180 ; what could sound fairer ? 180 ; interpreta- 

 tion of the'nation's obligation, 180 ; constitutionality 

 of the greenback law questioned, 181 ; objections, 

 181; how shall the redemption be made ? 181; where 

 is the coin to come from ? 182 ; extent of importations 

 of foreign goods, 182; extravagant importation of 

 luxuries, 183 ; amount of national currency, 183 ; the 

 bank circulation, 184 ; the West calls for more cur- 

 rency, 184 ; an unfavorable balance of trade not the 

 prime cause of our evils, 184 ; our currency should be 

 made equivalent to gold, 184 ; amount of gold in the 

 country, 185 ; there must be a reduction of paper for 

 a resumption, 185. 



Is it the duty of Congress to take measures at this 

 session for a redemption of the currency in coin? 

 185 ; we should come to specie payments in prosper- 



