INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



850 



OOCSBBT, Long AnoLPiiB. French Cabinet Minister, blo- 

 graphic*! notice, 884, 887. 



ComoTii, A. II. Kepivftentatlve from Pennsylvania, 851; 

 on the juUlclal appropriation bill In extra session, 274, 

 87ft. 



COLLINS, Judge THOMAS WIIXKTOK. Biographical sketch, 

 147. 



Colombia. Members of the Government, 147; revenue and 

 expenditures, 148 ; proposed customs reform, 148 ; the 

 debt, 148 ; commerce, 143, 149 ; coffee culture, 149 ; a new 

 railway, 149 ; mineral prospects, 149 ; riot In Bucaraman- 

 ga, 149 ; difficulties of national Government without a 

 Federal capital, 150 ; the Liberals elect the next Presi- 

 dent, 150. 



Colorado. Results of the State election, 150; election of 

 United States Senator, 150 ; Congress petitioned to re- 

 move the Utes from their reservation, 150 ; its value and 

 extent, 150 ; the code versus common-law practice, 151 ; 

 civil-damage temperance act, 151 ; public irrigation sys- 

 tem, 151 ; the grant of the Government lands demanded 

 for the development of the irrigation-works, 152 ; educa- 

 tional suffrage qualification discussed, 152 ; the School of 

 Mines sustained, 158 ; woman suffrage, 153 ; cattle law, 

 158; fish-preservation act, 158; law of placer claims, 

 154; the State debt, 154; assessment law, 154; public 

 schools, 155; public lands, 155; agricultural progress, 

 155; mining development, 155; election of a Judge and 

 the party platforms, 155, 156; tax valuation, 156; live- 

 stock and railroad valuations, 156 ; growth of Leadville, 

 156 ; sanitary neglect and ignorance, 157 ; railroad feud, 

 158; victory of the Santa F6 line, 158 ; the Grand Canon 

 railroad war, 159 ; engineering on a war footing, 159 ; 

 legal and military railroad tactics, 160 ; the grandeur of 

 the gorge and its engineering difficulties, 160 ; Leadville's 

 carbonates, 101. 



Commerce, International. Growth of modern commerce, 

 161; annual Increase of British exports, (1886-'72), 161 ; 

 increase of French exports, 161 ; of American (lS85-'72), 

 161 ; influence on commerce of the gold discoveries, 162 ; 

 the present aggregate commerce of the world, 162 ; table 

 of international commerce, 162 ; the late crisis, 168 ; at- 

 tributed to contraction, 168 ; the world's stock of pre- 

 cious metals, 163; evils of silver demonetization, 164; 

 demonetization imperils the solvency of debtor nations, 

 164 ; the public debts of the world, 164 ; the signs of de- 

 pression In France, 164, 165; exceptional prosperity of 

 food-producing countries, 165; the International grain- 

 trade, 165-167; England's food requirements, 165; table 

 of grain exports from the United States to England, 166; 

 production and exports of European countries, 166 ; do. 

 of Australia and India, 167; the potato-trade, 167; the 

 international trade in provisions, 167, 168; American 

 meat exports, 167 ; hams and bacon, 167; lard, 167 ; 

 pickled meat, 167; British imports of butter, 167; inter- 

 national cheese-trade, 16S; American exports of fresh 

 meat and live animals, 16S; the sugar-trade, 169; pro- 

 duction in the different countries of cane-sugar, 169; Eu- 

 ropean beet-sugar product, 169; consumption of the lead- 

 Ing nations, 169; wine-trade and production, 169; the 

 different European crops, 169; champagne consumption, 

 169; French wine-culture, 169; crops and exports of 

 other lands, 169 ; the tobacco-trade, 170 ; production and 

 exports of the United States, 170; Havana cigars, 170; 

 Manila cheroots, 170 ; the European crop, 170 ; European 

 crops, 170; average consumption of different countries, 

 170 ; the German product and demand, 170 ; takings of 

 the Italian Regie, 171 ; the cotton-trade, 171, 172; depres- 

 sion in 1878, 171 ; comparative statement of British 

 manufacture and exports, 171 ; table of comparative cost 

 and prices of manufactures, 171 ; table of the consump- 



tion of raw and of manufactured cotton In all land*, 172 ; 

 comparative table of manufacture in the leading coun- 

 tries, 173; the wool-trade, 172, 178; Australian wool, 

 178 ; comparative European Imports, 178 ; woolen trade 

 in 1877, 178; the silk-trade, 178; the world 1 * production, 

 178 ; decreased export of French manufactured ilik, 178 ; 

 the coal and iron trade, 178, 174 ; retrospect of British coal- 

 mining, 178; the world's product of raw Iron, 178; do. of 

 manufactured, 174 ; table giving the increase of manu- 

 factures in all countries, 174 ; the British puddllng-trade, 

 174; Bessemer production, 174; the petroleum-trade, 

 174, 170 ; British trade review, 175-178; signs of depres- 

 sion In England, 175; failure of the City of Glasgow 

 Bank, 175 ; Parliamentary investigation of the Stock Ex- 

 change, 176 ; comparative prices of leading commodities, 

 177 ; recent fluctuations, 177 ; values of British imports 

 in 1878 compared with 1877, 177; export and import 

 trade for nine months of 1879, 178; growth of the foreign 

 trade of France, 178 ; French trade In 1878, 179 ; exports 

 and Imports for eight months of 1S79, 179 ; fluctuations 

 of values on the Bourse, 179; Belgian trade in 1877, 179; 

 review of trade in Germany, ISO ; classified table of ex- 

 ports and Imports for three years, 180 ; the new German 

 tariff, ISO; Italian trade in 1877, 1S1 ; statistics for six 

 months of 1879, 181 ; the foreign trade of Egypt, 181 ; the 

 trade of British India, 181, 1S2 ; table of exports and im- 

 ports for twelve years, 182 ; British imports of silver and 

 shipments to the East for twelve years, 182 ; the foreign 

 commerce of Canada, 182 ; table for ten years, 182 ; the 

 trade of 1878,182. 



Commerce of the United States. Its magnitude, 1S2; os- 

 cillations of the balance of trade, 188 ; enormous recent 

 excess of exports, 188 ; growth of American commerce, 

 183; 1 1. 'Hi ii,- of American shipping, 184; recent develop- 

 ment in the exportation of raw materials, 184 ; crops of 

 1879, 184; free trade or protection, 184 ; table of exports 

 of manufactured products, 185; table showing American 

 commerce with the different countries for a series of years, 

 185 ; table showing the share of the different countries in 

 American commerce in 1S78, 186; character of the trade 

 with the different countries, 186, 187; America's exports 

 ' of finished products, 188, 189 ; the neutral markets, 188 ; 

 honest goods, 188; tasty packing, 1SS; American cot- 

 tons, 188; American hardware in England, 1SS; new 

 products, 189 ; trade for nine months of 1879, 189. 



Communitt*. The French amnesty bill, 8S9 ; the number 

 pardoned, 898. 



Congregationalists. Statistics, 1S9 ; missionary meetings, 

 190, 191 ; missionary labors among the Indians, 190; 

 Chinese immigration favorable to evangelization, 190. 

 British Congregationalists : statistics, 191 ; annual meet- 

 ings, 191. Irish, Scotch, and French Congregationalists, 

 192. 



Congress, United StaU. Third session of the Forty-fifth, 

 198 ; list of Senators and Representatives, 198. 



In the Senate, resolution to Inquire into the late elec- 

 tions, 194; the white Southern population alone rep- 

 resented In Congress, 194 ; allegations of fraud and vio- 

 lence In Southern elections, 194, 195; charges of violation 

 of the fourteenth amendment, 195 ; Thurman's counter- 

 amendment touching dismissals from office on account 

 of politics, party assessments, and deputy marshals and 

 supervisors, 196; bis speech, 196-198; Lamar'a reply to 

 Blaine, 199, 200 ; the solid South not in antagonism with 

 the country, 199 ; dispute on the question of unequal rep- 

 resentation, 200, 201 ; the investigation to include the 

 conduct of State and Federal election officers, 201 ; to be 

 referred to a special committee, 202 ; open sessions ob- 

 jected to, 202; Southern Senators demand open doors, 

 203 ; their amendment lost, 204 ; customary to leave to 



