INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Valley of the Mississippi. Its area and drainage, 508. 



Vermont. Republican' State Convention, 815 ; nominations 

 and resolutions, 815; nomination of Congressmen, 815; 

 Democratic State ..Convention, 815; nominations and reso- 

 lutions, 815; nomination of Congressmen, 816; National 

 State Convention, 816; resolutions, 816; nominations, 

 816; election of State officers, 816; do. of Congressmen, 

 816; finances of the State, 816; expenditures, 817; re- 

 vision of the statutes, 817 ; savings banks, 817 ; schools 

 and school laws, 817; Eeform School, 817; Penitentiary, 

 817 ; House of Correction, 818 ; case* of reprieve of a death- 

 sentence, 818; investigation, 818; Insane Asylum, 818; 

 bequests to the State, 818. 



VICTOR EMANUEL, King of Italy. Birth and death, 819; ca- 

 reer, 819. 



VICTORIA ALEXANDRINA, Queen of Great Britain. Birth and 

 career, 819. 



Virginia. Excitement respecting the State debt, 820 ; di- 

 vided sentiment, 821 ; report of the Finance Committee of 

 the Legislature, 821 ; resolutions offered, 821 ; report of 

 Finance Committee on the rate of taxation, 821 ; a bill re- 

 ported in the House relative to the debt, 821 ; amended 

 in the Senate and approved in the House, 821 ; vetoed by 

 the Governor, 821 ; bill for consolidation proposed, 822 ; 

 state of the Treasury, 822 ; an amendment for refunding 

 passed, 822 ; State officers elected, 822 ; views of the Gov- 

 ernor on the debt at the opening of the next session, 822; 

 sources of revenue, 822 ; the question which was pre- 

 sented, 823; taxes on adjustment, 823; objections to 

 taxes, 823; letter of a bondholder, 823; views of the Gov- 

 ernor, 823; the proposition passed in March,. 1878, 824; 

 action of the Governor, 824 ; aspect of the question, 824; 

 amount of liquor licenses, 824 ; results of the Moffett law, 

 824 ; election of members of Congress, 824 ; State insti- 

 tutions, 824; criminal code, 824; decision under the civil- 

 rights act, 825. 



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WADE, BENJAMIN F. Birth and death, 825; career, 825. 



WALLACE, WILLIAM A. Senator from Pennsylvania, 135; on 

 the bill for the coinage of silver dollars, 145 ; on the army 

 bill, 202. 



WELLES, GIDEON. Birth and death, 825; career, 825. 



WELSH, JOHN. American Minister to England, 242 ; letter of 

 protest on the payment of the award of the fisheries com- 

 mission, 242. 



WESTCOTT, Justice, of Florida, delivers dissenting opinion in 

 the case of the State canvassers, 36. 



West Virginia. Election of members of Congress, R26; do. 

 of the members of the State Legislature, 826; reri-lptu 

 and disburscmentfl, 826; condition of the public school*, 

 826; Insane Hospital, 826; Deaf and Dumb and Hllnd 

 Asylum, 827; militia, 827; disagreement with Virginia 

 relative to the public debt, 827 ; Inprovcments In the 

 Kanawha River, 827; general condition oftho State, %27. 



WITEELKR, WILLIAM A., Vice-Preflident Presides in the 

 Senate, 152. 



Whipping- Post. Arguments In favor of, urged In the Ken- 

 tucky Legislature, 4G9. 



WILSON, BENJAMIN. Representative from West Virginia, 

 185 ; resolution rektive to an investigation of electoral 

 frauds, 174. 



WINDOM, WILLIAM. Senator from Minnesota, 135 ; on the 

 army bill, 197. 



Wisconsin. Work of the Legislature, 828 ; receipts and dis- 

 bursements, 828; State debt, 828; local indebtedness, 

 828; assessed value of property, 828; tax levied, 829; 

 entire tax, 829; Industrial School, 829; State Prison, 

 829 ; Insane Hospital, 829 ; other institutions, 829 ; re- 

 port of the Railroad Commissioner, 829; reductions of 

 tariff rates, 829 ; length of railroads, 830 ; statistics of 

 agriculture, 830; Republican declaration, 630; election 

 of members of Congress, 830; unconstitutionality of the 

 law to protect trademarks, 831. 



WITHERS, ROBERT E. Senator from Virginia, 185; on the 



free coinage of silver dollars, 157. 

 Women Suffrage Association. Its platform, 808. 

 World, table of largest cities of, and population, 250. 



Yeas and A r ays.In the Senate on the resolution relative to 

 paying the bonds in silver, 144 ; on the free coinage of 

 silver dollars, 159 ; do., 163; on the retirement of legal- 

 tender notes, 167; on the bill to repeal the specie re- 

 sumption act, 196 ; on the army bill, 212. 



Yeas and Nays In the House on the bill for the coinage 

 of the silver dollar, 145 ; on the amendments of the 

 Senate to the free coinage bill, 162; do., 163; on retire- 

 ment of legal- tender notes, 164; relative to the Presi- 

 dent's title to office, 167 ; on the power to reverse the 

 President's tenure of office, 169; on the resolution to 

 investigate alleged frauds in the Presidential election, 

 174; on the repeal of the specie resumption act, 196; on 

 concurrence in Senate's amendments, 196. 



Yellow Fever. Theories respecting its origin, 816. 



YTTNQ WING, the Assistant Chinese Ambassador. The man- 

 ner of the reception, 810, 811. 



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