INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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tore regarding, 84, 65; do. of meeting of San Francisco 

 .-in/.-iis. -:. ; itlploiiMtlc correspondence, 881, 888. 



Chrittia* Connection. Number of ministers, schools, etc , 

 118. 



Chritian Union. Resolutions of General Council, 118, 114; 

 declaration of principles, 114. 



CmumANCY, ISAAC P. Senator from Michigan, 181 ; on the 

 constitutional amendment relating to school-funds, 175. 



CurroKP, .i.'iiN 11. biographical sketch, 114. 



COLIBIDGK, Sir JOHN TATLOB. A British lawyer, biograph- 

 ical sketch, 114. 



COLET, LOUISK B. A French authoress, biographical sketch, 

 114. 



COLLINS, MOKTIMEU. An English novelist, biographical 

 sketch, 114, 115. 



Colombia. Population. 115; public officers, 115; revenue 

 and expenditures, 110; public debt, 110; commercial sta- 

 tistics, 110; shipping, 110; education, 116, 117; railways, 

 117; contract to construct an interoceanic canal, 117, 

 118; revolution in Cauca Incited by the clericals, 118. 



Colorado. Constituted a State, 118; State constitution, 118- 

 l'>0; financial condition, 120; public lands, 120; State 

 election, 120, 121 ; mines, 121 ; United States Senators, 

 IftL 



Commerce of the UniUd States. Imports and exports, 1874- 

 '75, 121 ; coin and bullion, r.'l ; imports and exports, 1870, 

 121, 122; items of export, 1874-'75, 122 ; of import, 1870, 

 l^-.'-124; of export, 1870, 124, 125; imports at New York, 

 1878-'76, 120; imports, 1872 and 1876, 126; destination 

 of exports from New York, 1875, 126; articles of export 

 from New York, 1875-'7fl, 120; receipts of produce at 

 New York, 1875-'76, 126, 127; United States exports, 1872 

 and 1870, 127. 



Conyregationalists. Statistics, 127; Congregational Union, 

 127, 128; Home Missionary Society, 128; Board for For- 

 eign Missions, 128; Missionary Association, 128; Ontario 

 and Quebec Union, 128, 129 ; New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia, 129 ; statistics of England and Wales, 129 ; anni- 

 versaries In England and "Wales, 129, 180; Congregatlon- 

 alists in Australasia, etc.. 180; on the Continent, 180. 



Congress. International Health, at Brussels, 72 ; geographi- 

 cal, 78 ; -tatistical, 784. 



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

 181. 



In the Senate, a resolution for the amendment of the 

 Constitution relative to he election of President and 

 Vice-President proposed, 182; another and similar pro- 

 posed, 182 ; another relative to meeting of electors in 

 States, 182. 



In the House, a resolution to amend the Constitution 

 relative to the establishment of religion offered, 188; 

 another relative to the presidential term, 183 ; a substi- 

 tute reported, 188 ; amendment reported by the minority 

 of the committee, 188 ; reasons for the report of the mi- 

 nority, 188 ; another amendment relative to a third term, 

 184 ; reasons in opposition to a one-term limitation, 134 ; 

 reasons against prohibiting a reflection after one term, 

 184 ; a six-year term, 185 ; its advantages, 185 ; amend- 

 ment fixing a six-year term offered, 136 ; rejected, 186 ; 

 amendment to make a President for six years afterward 

 ineligible offered and rejected, 130 ; resolution to make a 

 President ineligible for a second term considered and 

 rejected, 136; amendment to make the President and 

 Vice-President Senators for life offered and referred, 

 187; amendment to make the term six years again 

 offered, 187 ; amendment to make the term of all civil 

 officers four years offered, 187 ; another amendment rela- 

 tive to direct taxes offered, 187 ; amendment to regulate 

 the manner of electing President and Vice-Presldent 

 offered, 133 ; do. on electing Senators, 188 ; do. relative 

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to laws respecting religion and taxes, 188; do. relative 

 to the term of the presidency, 188 ; do. relative to the 

 establishment of religion, 188. 



In the Senate, resolution* relative to the tenure of tho 

 office of the President pro lemjwe, 188 ; the President 

 pro ttm. may rightfully continue to hold his office unk-M 

 his term an Senator shall sooner terminate, or be shall be 

 removed for cause until the Vice-President shall return, 

 or a new Vice-Presldent be elected and qualified, 18V; 

 reasons for this opinion, 180 ; not a question of personal 

 rights, but of the right of the Senate to change its presid- 

 ing officer at its pleasure, 140 ; reason why he is named 

 in the Constitution, 140; results which would follow 

 provided the Senate had not the power to choose, 140 ; 

 the Constitution does not say that the President pro tern. 

 shall be a Senator, 141 ; the Constitution devolves upon a 

 Senator to discharge the duties of President pro ttm. If 

 the Senate assign them, 141 ; dissent from that view, 

 141 ; wish to maintain the authority of the Senate, 141 ; 

 the act of March 1, 1792, must have great weight in the 

 consideration of this question, 142 ; it is not enough to 

 say that the President pro tern, is un officer of this body. 

 142; the right to remove is derived by implication, 142; 

 but this officer is designated as a successor to the presi- 

 dency In a certain contingency, 142 ; why has this ques- 

 tion been brought before us? 148; provision of the Con- 

 stitution relative to the presidency, 148 ; the power of 

 removal does not exist as to the President pro t<in., 148 ; 

 adoption of the first resolution, 144; second resolution, 

 that the death of the Vice-President does not vacate the 

 office of President pro tern., adopted, 144 ; third resolu- 

 tion, that the office is held at the pleasure of the Senate, 

 considered, 144; are the words pro tempore in the Con- 

 stitution used in technical parliamentary sense, or is 

 their meaning fixed by the context? 144; the question 

 discussed, 144 ; this clause, empowering the Senate to 

 elect, was inserted merely to rebut an Implication that 

 would arise from the statement that the Vice-Presldent 

 should be President of the Senate, 145; what is a Presi- 

 dent pro tempore 1 145 ; what does it mean? 146; the 

 office does not terminate on the particular day of our 

 session, 146; the framers of the Constitution must have 

 expected these words to have the same construction 

 they were known to have by the immemorial practice of 

 the House of Lords, 140 ; the Constitution does not fix 

 the term, 140 ; the resolution declares a plain principle 

 of law, 147 ; this power of the Senate over the office can- 

 not bo cut short by any act of Congress whatever, 147 ; 

 when the Vice-President is absent, the Senate is on the 

 same footing with every other deliberative body, 147; 

 what is the law with regard to deliberative bodies that 

 elect their own presiding officer? 147; extract from 

 Cushlng's " Treatise," 147 ; when the duties of President 

 of the United States are devolved upon the President pro 

 tern, of the Senate by the death of the President, can the 

 Senate then change the President pro tern, at pleasure, 

 and thus, in effect, change the Executive of the nation ? 

 148; he would still be President pro tern, after becom- 

 ing President of the United States, 148; the usage of the 

 Senate for seventy years concurs with the opinion that 

 the office of President pro (em. of the Senate is one o 

 fixed tenure, and is not subject to removal at the pleasure 

 of the Senate, 149 ; what is the clause of the Constitution > 

 149; what was the intention of the framers? 160; Is it 

 believed that he could be removed after he became 

 President of the United States? 150; any such construc- 

 tion must be erroneous, 151 ; the power of the Senate Is 

 not the same over this officer as over its other officers, 

 161 ; why does not the Constitution say the Senate shall 

 choose a President pro tern, when necessary? 15*; U 



