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207; you are applying to the army a principle you would 

 not think of applying to the judicial branch of the Gov- 

 ernment, 208; you never apply a penalty to a judicial 

 officer for a mistake, 208; before the law the soldier and 

 the civilian stand precisely on the same level, 209 ; will 

 you say the punishment shall only be inflicted where the 

 party errs with knowledge that he is violating law ? 209 ; 

 so a member of the army becoming subject to the articles 

 of war is absolved from his obedience to the laws of the 

 United States, 309; like all laws of the statute-book, 

 210; who is liable under this section? 210; unjust to 

 apply this law fixing severe penalties to subordinate 

 officers, 211 ; motion to strike out, lost, 212 ; amendment 

 agreed to, 212 ; bill passed, 212. 



In the House, the amendments of the Senate now con- 

 curred in, 212 ; committee of conference appointed, 212; 

 report concurred in, 213; explanation of proceedings, 

 213 ; bill passed, 213 ; close of the session, 218. 



CONGER, OMAR D. Eepresentative from Michigan, 135 ; rel- 

 ative to the investigation of alleged fraud in the Presi- 

 dential election, 170, 171. 



CONKLING, EOSCOE. Senator from New York, 135 ; on the 

 army bill, 210, 211. 



Connecticut, Session of the Legislature, 213; contested 

 seats, 214; serious evils in the working of the legisla- 

 tive and judicial departments of the State, 214 ; evils of 

 the system of legal procedure, 215; defects of probate 

 courts, 215; fraudulent corporations, 216; measure to 

 prevent the breaking of water reservoirs, 216; resolu- 

 tions on the currency, 216 ; examination of the expendi- 

 tures, 21 7 ; Comptroller's accounts, 217 ; removal to the 

 new State House, 217 ; act to create a State Board of 

 Health, 218; salaries of State officers, 218; other acts, 

 218; constitutional amendments, 218; the new Capitol, 

 219 ; details of the building, 219 ; State Convention of 

 the Greenback Labor party, 220 ; nominations, 220 ; reso- 

 lutions, 220; State Democratic Convention, 220; nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 221 ; Republican State Conven- 

 tion, 221 ; nominations and resolutions, 221 ; result of 

 the election, 222 ; income and expenditures, 222 : savings 

 banks, 222; public schools, 222; Industrial School for 

 Girls, 222 ; Insane Asylum, 222 ; military force, 223. 



CHRISTIANCY, ISAAC P. Senator from Michigan, 135; on 

 the coinage of silver dollars, 152 ; on the army bill, 210, 

 211. 



Consolidated Virginia Mine. Its yield of silver, 602. 



Contagious Diseases. Eules to prevent their spread in pub- 

 lic schools, 526. 



Contract. Between Lieutenant Wyse of the Isthmus Scien- 

 tific Exploring Expedition and the United States of Co- 

 lombia, 105. 



Contributions to yellow-fever sufferers, 318. 



Copyright. Eeport.of the Eoyal Commissioners to the Eng- 

 lish Parliament, 223 ; members of the Commission, 223 ; 

 uncertainty and confusion of the Jaw, 223; examples, 

 223; first question considered, Shall the royalty system 

 be substituted for the copyright laws? 224; report 

 against the royalty system, 224 ; question of the unli- 

 censed abridgment and dramatization of copyrighted 

 works, 224 ; how a British author can secure a copyright, 

 225; present law unsatisfactory, 225; international copy- 

 right considered, 226; changes suggested, 226 ; remarks 

 on the refusal of the United States to enter into a treaty, 

 226; important discussions in France, 226; principles 

 affirmed, 226, 227 ; resolutions adopted, 227 ; publications, 

 227. 



Costa Rica. Population, 227 ; its movement, 227 ; President 

 and Cabinet, 227; receipts and expenditures, 227; esti- 

 mates of the budget, 228 ; the new National Bank, 228 ; 

 value of exports, 228; staples, 228; fruit trade with the 



United States, 228; improved condition of afTalm, 22S; 

 contract for immigrant laborers, 229 ; mining lamln, 229. 



Cotton and Silk Weighting. Adulterations of commercial 

 commodities, 229; weight of heavier English cotton 

 cloths, 229; how weighted, 229; the practice with silk 

 goods, 229; manner in which it is done, 229; effects on 

 the goods, 230; extent of weighting, 280. 



COURBET, GURTAVB. A French painter, 280; birth, 280; his 

 pictures and death, 280. 



Cotton. The manufacture of, Its excessive Increase, 124; 

 crop of 1877-'78, 124; total crop of all countries, 125. 



Cox, SAMUEL S. Representative from New York, 185; rela- 

 tive to the investigation of alleged fraud in Presidential 

 election, 171. 



Crevasses. Their disastrous effects on the Mississippi Elv- 

 er, 503. 



Crown Prince of Germany. Letter in answer to Pope Leo 

 XIII., 881. 



CULLEN, PAUL. A cardinal, 230; birth, 230; career and 

 death, 280. 



Cyprus. An island, 231 ; area and population, 231 ; admin- 

 istration, 231 ; history, 231 ; length and breadth, 281 ; 

 value to the British Empire, 231; temperature and cli- 

 mate, 231; excellent ports in ancient times, 232; extraor- 

 dinary capacities for agricultural products, 232; local 

 administration, 233; antiquities, 233; treaty between 

 England and Turkey, 233; its stipulations, 283; English 

 Governor, 234; British occupation of the island, 284; 

 works in Cyprus, 235. 



Dairy Products. Their development in the United States 

 in twenty years, 123. 



DARWIN, FRANCIS. Observations on the habits of the Dro- 

 sera, 444. 



DAVIS, J. J. Representative from North Carolina, 135 ; on 

 the repeal of the specie resumption act, 186. 



Death Penalty. Restored, in Iowa, 446; operation of its ab- 

 olition in Maine, 512. 



Deaths from yellow fever, daily, in New Orleans, 319. 



Debt of the United /States. Statement of outstanding princi- 

 pal, 324. 



Deep Sea Explorations. New English expedition, 852. 



Delaware. Debt decrease, 285; advance of bonds, 285; re- 

 sources of the government, 235 ; provision for Inmates 

 of charitable institutions, 235; public-school system, 285; 

 State Library, 235; a case of train-wrecking, 285; boun- 

 dary question with New Jersey, 286; Democratic State 

 Convention, 236; resolutions and nominations, 236 ; Re- 

 publican State Convention, 236; resolutions and nomina- 

 tions, 230; result of the election, 237 ; area and division 

 of the State, 237 ; population, 287; inequality of repre- 

 sentation, 287; increase of population, 237; farms and 

 their value, 237; population of some counties, 288; the 

 peach crop, 238; its value, 288; shipments of oysters, 

 238 ; shipments of berries, 288 ; wheat crop, 239 ; educa- 

 tion of colored children, 239; project of a ship canal 

 across the peninsula, 239 ; proposed routes, 289; State 

 Temperance Convention, 289 ; resolutions, 289. 



Denmark. The sovereign and his family, 240 ; area and pop- 

 ulation, 240; territorial divisions, 240: emigration, 240; 

 revenue and expenditures, 240 ; sources of revenue, 240 ; 

 national debt, 240; strength of the army, 240; value of 

 Danish commerce, 241; movement of shipping, 241; 

 commercial navy, 241 ; railroads, 241 ; post-offices, 241 ; 

 insurrection in Santa Cruz, 241 ; opening of Parliament, 

 241; discussion on the budget, 241; foreign relations, 

 242. 



