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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



natural import of the language, 152 ; motion indefinitely 

 to postpone lost, 152 ; resolution agreed to, 153. 



In the Senate, a resolution offered to adopt the joint 

 rules of the previous session, 153 ; motion to strike out 

 the twenty -second, 153; the Senate being an existing 

 body, its rules exist with it, but the House expires once 

 in two years, and its rules expire of course, 153 ; action 

 in the House on rules, 154; the twenty-second rule, 154; 

 this rule relates to the subject of the count of electoral 

 votes, 155 ; does a joint rule become void by the expira- 

 tion of a Congress? 155; if a joint rule is not binding on 

 the House, how can it be on the Senate ? 165 ; the twenty- 

 second rule is very objectionable, 155 ; why is it said that 

 the Senate is a perpetual body? 156; no reason unless 

 that one-third goes out at every Congress, 156 ; there is a 

 Congress always in existence, 156 ; rules of the House 

 expire with the House, 156 ; the House not at all times 

 an organized body, 157; what does the Constitution say? 

 15T ; at every Congress the House adopts rules, 157 < 

 amendment adopted, 158. 



In the Senate, a bill offered to provide for counting the 

 electoral vote, 158 ; provisions of the bill, 158, 159 ; the 

 measure of power committed to Congress over the count- 

 ing, accepting, or rejecting the electoral votes of the elec- 

 tors, 159 ; contents of the Constitution on the subject, 159 ; 

 object of the bill to guard against all possibility of the 

 abuse of power, 160 ; it proposes to vest in the two Houses, 

 acting separately, the power of deciding on duplicate re- 

 turns, 160; perhaps it had better be vested in somebody 

 outside the two Houses, 160 ; motion to strike out the pro- 

 vision, 160; also to amend, 161; power of the President of 

 the Senate to decide on duplicate returns, 161 ; how the bill 

 Is defective, 161 ; subject full of difficulty, 162 ; amend- 

 ments proposed, 162; can you constitute an umpire be- 

 tween the two Houses? 162; two constructions are con- 

 tended for here, 162 ; votes on the amendments, 163-166; 

 bill passed, 166. 



In the Senate, resolutions on the nationality of the 

 Government, 166; do. on the rights of the States, 166. 



In the House, resolutions on the currency, 166 ; do. on 

 the condition of financial affairs, 166; vote on the same, 

 166, 167; do. relative to a third presidential term, 167; 

 vote on the same, 167 ; do. relative to the nationality of 

 the Government, 167; vote on the same, 163; do. on the 

 Government as a Federal Union, 168; vote on the same, 

 163 ; do. of inquiry relative to presidential acts done at 

 a distance from Washington, 169 ; reply of President 

 Grant, and memoranda as to other Presidents, 169, 170. 



In the Senate, a bill to fix the President's salary con- 

 sidered and passed, 171; do. considered and passed in 

 the House, 172 ; veto of President Grant, 172. 



In the House, a resolution to amend the Constitution 

 relative to religion and schools reported from the Ju- 

 diciary Committee with an amendment, 172 ; substitute 

 proposed, 173; the substitute embodies the original 

 amendment, and adds to it a nullifying clause, ] 73 ; rea- 

 sons for the amendment, 173; resolution passed, 173. 



In the Senate, the above resolution presented and con- 

 sidered, 174; a mere brutum fulmen, 174; not a word 

 relating to the appropriation of public money, 174 ; sub- 

 stitute proposed, 175; other substitutes, 175; the people 

 are in earnest on this question, 175 ; the resolution, 175; 

 its object, 175; the nature of the substitute, 175; you can 

 drive an omnibus through this resolution, 176; it simply 

 protects a school-fund, 176; referred to the Judiciary 

 Committee, 176 ; report to strike out, and insert a substi- 

 tute, 176 ; amendment agreed to, 177 ; question of its 

 passage presented, 177; look at the leading principle of 

 the Constitution, 177 ; the people of a State should have 

 exclusive power to manage their local affairs, 177; better 



to leave the subject to the States, 178; this article is afc 

 accusation against a large body of loyal fellow-citizens, 

 178; what the resolution proposes, 179; the remedy 

 stops far short of the evil, 179 ; this is a favorable time 

 to accomplish the object, 180; this power is not in the 

 Federal Government, 180 ; no man can mistake the ob- 

 ject of this debate, 180 ; we see where it tends, 180 ; reso- 

 lution failed to pass, 180. 



In the House, resolutions relative to fraud or intimida- 

 tion in the exercise of the right of suffrage offered, 180; 

 agreed to, 181 . 



In the House, the amnesty bill considered, 182 ; pro- 

 visions of the bill, 182 ; the bill lost, 182 ; motion to re- 

 consider the vote, 182; imputation on the Republican 

 side of the House, 182; record of what the party has 

 done, 182 ; did it prohibit any man all his civil rights ? 182 ; 

 the exclusion of the fourteenth amendment, 182 ; num- 

 bers relieved from disabilities, 183 ; one exception in the 

 amendment proposed, 183 ; reason of this exception, 184; 

 cruelties at Andersonville, 184 ; message of Mr. Davis, 

 184; retaliation refused, 184; no proposition to punish 

 Mr. Davis, 185; too late to debate the general question of 

 amnesty, 185 ; if Mr. Davis was guilty beyond all, why 

 was ho not tried ? 185 ; Is one man in the country so 

 powerful for evil that we dare not grant him amnesty ? 

 185. 



It was hoped the country had suffered long enough 

 from feuds, 186; the question before the House, 186; al- 

 leged reason for excepting Mr. Davis from amnesty, 186 ; 

 the testimony advanced is exclusively ex parte, 187 ; 

 report of Surgeon Jones, 187; what he says, ]87; the 

 case of Wirz, 188 ; what is the proposition to be estab- 

 lished? 188; consequences if the gentleman's proposition 

 Is true, 188; the real facts about Andersonville, 189; all 

 its horrors grew out of the necessities of the occasion, 

 190; report of Secretary Stan ton, 190 ; the great question 

 is, Who was responsible for this state of things ? 190 ; 

 exchange of prisoners, 190, 191 ; previous question 

 moved and carried, 1!I2 ; amendment relative to the oath 

 proposed, 193; bill committed and reported back, 193; 

 bill failed to pass, 193. 



In the House, a bill relative to the Centennial celebra- 

 tion reported, 194; features of the bill, 194; reasons 

 urged for the passage of the bill, 194; history of the cele- 

 bration, 195 ; In view of all this legislation, can Congress 

 escape the responsibility it has so often assumed ? 196 ; 

 where do you derive the power to make appropriation ? 

 196; no doubt about the constitutional power, 196. 



The spirit of the Centennial is obedience to the Consti- 

 tution, 197 ; the greatest invention of American genius is 

 the absolute subordination of governmental power to the 

 rigid rule of the Constitution, 197 ; the jealousy of cen- 

 tralizing power was the key-note of the Kevoluiion, 197; 

 ours is a Government of granted powers, 197; opinions 

 of the Supreme Court, 197. 198; are not expenditures for 

 national dignity authorized ? 198 ; no word national in 

 the Constitution, 198; question of the power to pass 

 the bill examined, 199, 200 ; bill passed in the House, 

 201 ; do. in the Senate, 202. 



In the House, a bill to redeem the fractional currency 

 reported, 202 ; the bill, 202 ; amendment, 202 ; final 

 passage in both Houses, 202. 



A resolution relative to the issue of silver coin, 203 ; its 

 passage in both Houses, 203. 



Repeal of the Homestead law in Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, 203 ; the act, 203 ; close 

 of the session, 203. 



CONKMNG, EOSCOE. Senator from New Tork, 131 ; relative 

 to the tenure of office of the President pro tempore. 

 150 ; on the joint rules, 157. 



