INDEX OF CONTEXTS. 



881 





hf ministry, 879; budget for 1876, 678; sources 

 of revenue, '.;. ; expenditure*. 878 ; public debt, 878, 879, 

 session of the Dirt, 679 ; tUo King's speech. 670 ; Catholic 

 dl**atlsfactlon, 67'J ; bill for the purchase of the railroad*, 

 87U, 6bO; resignation of Uell.nick, 680; railroad bill 

 pMoed for the second reading, 60; incorporation of tho 

 duchy of Laueuburg voted, 630 ; bill for tho new Consti- 

 tution of the Stato Church passed, OoO; bill for the ad- 

 ministration of Catholic Church property passed, 630; 

 bill passed making Uoruian thu otllcial language In Po- 

 land, O^O; com[>etence bill in local government passed, 

 O-o ; town-government bill rejected, C-o ; election of dep- 

 uties, iNi; ili position of Catholic bishops In Munster 

 and Coliigii> 



tii' Iji'i-itments. President Grant's message at the open- 

 ing of the Forty-fourth Congress, 6>0-(JbC ; review of his 

 administration, apology for otllcial mistakes, 6SO, GM ; 

 reconstruction policy, 681 ; financial improvement, 681 ; 

 Indian policy, 681 ; diplomatic relations, t>81 ; reduction of 

 the diplomatic corps, CM, (>_ ; Alabama Claims Commis- 

 sion, 6S2 ; British boundary adjustment, i!^.' ; commercial 

 treaties with Turkey and the Hawaiian Islands, 682; 

 Mexican frontier disturbances, 6.SU ; Montijo award, 6S2 ; 

 Mexican Claims Commission, 632, 0-a ; Venezuelan clai:ns, 

 688; naturalization and citizenship question, 638; claims of 

 aliens, 083 ; admission of Colorado, 083 ; military opera- 

 tions, subject of army reorganization, CS8; increase of 

 the cavalry, 638 ; War Department estimates, 6S3, 634 ; 

 recommendations of the Secretary of War, 634 ; river and 

 harbor improvements, 684 ; the Navy, 684 ; the Post- 

 office, 634, Gt>5; Department of Agriculture, 685; the In- 

 ternational Exhibition, 6S5; proposal for a permanent ex- 

 hibition, 635 ; question of changing the law for electing 

 the President, 6S5; approval of an educational limit to 

 the franchise, 685 , arguments for the annexation of San 

 Domingo, C85, 686; his farewell to public life, C-G; im- 

 peachment of William W. Belknap, 6S6; resolutions for 

 the impeachment adopted by the House of Representa- 

 tives, 686 ; reference of the message to the Senate to a 

 committee of five, 686; the Senate resolve to take action 

 In the impeachment, 686 ; flight of Caleb P. Marsh, reso- 

 lution to proceed, witnesses protected from prosecution, 

 686 ; the managers of impeachment, 686 : articles of im- 

 peachment, 6S6-6S8; Rolknop's summons and plea of 

 non-jurisdiction, 638: replication of the managers, 638; 

 Bclknap's rejoinder, 688, 6S9; sur- rejoinder of the House, 

 689 ; Senate discusses the question of jurisdiction, 689, 

 690 ; Senate declares Belknap amenable to trial, 690 ; the 

 trial, 691 ; sentence of acquittal, 691. 



Pcou, G. E. An American politician, biographical sketch, 

 601. 



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Railroad Land-Grants. Lands granted to railroads in 

 1875-'76,692; total land-grants for railroads and wagon- 

 roads up to 1876, 692. 



RANDALL, SAMUEL J. Representative from Pennsylvania, 

 181; proposes an amendment to the Constitution, 188; 

 biographical sketch, 692. 



RANDOLPH, THEODORE K. Senator from New Jersey, 181 ; 

 amendments to the bill for counting the electoral vote, 

 164; on the school- fund constitutional amendment, 176. 



REAGAN, JOUN H. Representative from Texas, 186; pro- 

 poses an amendment to the Constitution, 136, 137. 



REDFIELD, I. F. An American Jurist, biographical sketch, 



Reformed Churchet. Reformed Church in America : Statis- 

 tics, 698 ; missions, 693 ; General Synod, 693 ; committee 

 on cooperation with the Presbyterian Church discharged, 



6M ; church cannot break Its i IMIMI Him with the re- 

 ligious organization to which It belong* without Itnpklrtaff 

 1U titlu to thu cliurcb property, decision of the Court of 

 Common Plea* in Philadelphia, W4. Reformed Churrh 

 In the United States : Statistic*, WU ; theological Mroilna- 

 rles, 694, 805 ; societies, 6o ; establishment of Southern 

 congregations, 695. Reformed Church In France : Disten- 

 sion between the Orthodox and Liberal sections of the 

 Church, 695, 696; the Liberals disregard the rule* of tho 

 synod Imposing the orthodox confession In the election*, 

 695 ; the elections declared void by the Minister of Wor- 

 ship, 695; meeting of a Liberal commission of purifica- 

 tion, 695 ; agreement with the permanent synodal com- 

 mission, 695, 696; Liberal construction of the agreement 

 rejected, 696; conference to adjust the difference*, 696; 

 the Government orders a new election, 696. Reformed 

 Church of Holland, the old declaration of faith confirmed 

 by the synod, threatened schism, 696. Christian Re- 

 formed Church of the Netherlands, statistics, 606. 



Reformed Episcopal C/twreA. Statistics, 696; General Coun- 

 cil, 696 ; report on the points of difference between the 

 Reformed and the regular churches, 697 ; other committee 

 reports, 697; new bishops consecrated, 687, 698; sketch 

 of S. Fallows, D. D., elected Missionary Bishop, 008. 



Returning Board in Louisiana. Members, 468 ; proceed- 

 ings, 433; reports of visiting committees, 491. 



RIIETT. R. B. An American Confederate statesman, bio- 

 graphical sketch, 698. 



Rhode Island. Finances, 698; school statistics, 69S; State 

 institutions, 698, 699 ; banks, 699 ; insurance, 699 ; ad- 

 journed session of the Legislature, 699 ; proposed consti- 

 tutional amendments relating to the franchise, 699 ; rep- 

 resentation In the Assembly changed, 699 ; exemption* 

 from taxation determined, 699, 700; other acts, notifica- 

 tion In divorce proceedings, stockholders 1 liabilities In 

 manufacturing companies limited, 700 ; Board of Harbor 

 Commissioners, 700 ; Prohibitionist State Convention, 

 700; nominations, 700 ; platform. 700; Democratic State 

 Convention, 700; nominations. 700; platform, 700; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 700 ; nominations, 700, 701 ; State elec- 

 tion, 701 ; regular session of the Legislature, 701 ; II. B. 

 Anthony elected United States Senator, 701 ; Democratic 

 Electoral Convention, 701 ; Republican do., 701 : platform, 

 701, 702 ; presidential election, 702 ; constitutional amend- 

 ments defeated, 702 ; George H. Corliss, elector, adjudged 

 ineligible, questions put by the Attorney-General, and de- 

 cision of the court, 702 ; In special session of the Legisla- 

 ture W. S. Slater chosen elector, 702 ; aggregate statistics 

 of population and industry, 702. 



RICAKD, M. French Minister of tho Interior, death of, 817. 



RITSCIIL, FBIEDBICII. A German philologist, biographic*, 

 sketch, 702, 708. 



ROBINSON, Lucius. Governor of New York, sketch of. 606, 



Roman Catholic Church. Survey of events, 708; brief o.- 

 the Pope to a German bishop, 708 ; aggressive measure.' 

 of the Italian Government, 708, 704; superior instruction 

 only to be given in government school*, 708; theologka, 

 students not exempt from military service, 708, 704 ; for- 

 eign colleges in Rome seized, 704 ; Catholics in Germany, 

 despotic interference with religious sen-ices, 704 ; release 

 and banishment of Cardinal LcdochowskL, 704 ; depo- 

 sition of the Bishop of Munster, 704; the Government 

 to administer church property. 704 ; all Catholic school* 

 closed, 704; the Pope to the Bishop of Paderborn. 704, 

 705 ; arrest of pilgrims at Marplnuen, 705 ; trial of Bishop 

 Janlszewskl, 705; the Catholics In France, Catholic t'nl- 

 versity at Paris, 705; festival of Lourdes, 705; Catholic* 

 of Spain, liberty of worship discussed, 705: the Pope'* 

 brief to Spanish bishops on maintaining the Concordat, 

 705; anti-Catholic measures In Kusala, 705, 706; Turkey, 



