INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mary- 

 land, New Hampshire, Ohio, Vermont, and Tennessee, lose 

 one member each; Pennsylvania loses two members; 

 New York loses three members; Arkansas, California, 

 Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, and West 

 Virginia, gain one member each ; Minnesota and Nebraska 

 gain two members ; Kansas and Texas gain three mem- 

 bers, 184 ; bill relates not only to apportionment but to 

 election of members on a different principle from the one 

 heretofore adopted, 185 ; bill referred to the select com- 

 mittee on the census, 185; losses and gains to the States 

 according to the number fixed upon as the number of 

 members of the House, 185 ; Cox, of New York, intro- 

 duces a bill for apportionment, read first and second time, 

 referred to joint select Committee on the Census, 185 ; 

 text of the bill, 185 ; number proposed, 801, committee's 

 substitute (majority) fixes 811 and (minority) 319 as the 

 apportionment, 185 ; text of the bill and report, 185, 186; 

 minority's amendment, in the nature of a substitute, 

 text of, 186 ; amendment offered making 807 the num- 

 ber, 186 ; importance of the question to be settled, 186 ; 

 gains and losses to the States according to the number 

 adopted, 186, 187; on basis of 801, political gains to Dem- 

 ocratic States six, other States two; on a basis of 811, 

 Democratic States gain twelve, other States six ; on a basis 

 of 819, Democratic States gain thirteen, other States thir- 

 teen, 187 ; on basis of 301 and 811, Southern States gain ; 

 on basis of 319, gains between North and South equal, 

 187 ; element of qualification in voters not to be lost 

 sight of, 188 ; question as to the effect of the fourteenth 

 amendment of the Constitution (asked by Mr. Cox, of 

 New York), 188; answer given by the Supreme Court in 

 1879, 188; appropriate legislation authorized, 188; lan- 

 guage of the court quoted, 188, 189 ; no apportionment 

 bill by this Congress desirable, 189 ; special committee to 

 report to next Congress thought best, 189 ; dangerous 

 subject to meddle with, 189, 190 ; power of Congress to 

 regulate elections of Representatives, 190 ; views of the 

 States on this provision of the Constitution, 190 ; jealousy 

 of Federal interference, 190, 191 ; no necessity of passing 

 this law now, 191 ; larger number advocated as reasonable 

 and right in the popular branch of government, 192 ; the 

 number 319 fixed upon by vote of the House, 192 ; (no 

 action was taken on it in the Senate), and the session 

 closed March 3d. 



Special session of the Senate, March 4 to May 20, 192; 

 Vice- President Arthur in the chair, list of changes and 

 new members, 192 ; Senate equally divided, 87 Repub- 

 licans, 37 Democrats, and 2 Independents, 192 ; President 

 Garfield's Cabinet appointments confirmed, 192, 193; dif- 

 ficulties in organizing the Senate, 193 ; caucus meetings, 

 etc., 193; Democratic list of committees opposed by 

 Republicans, 193 ; course adopted by Senator Davis (In- 

 dependent) as to Judiciary Committee, 198 ; Senator Ma- 

 hone (Independent) charged with bad faith, 193 ; Demo- 

 cratic list rejected by casting vote of Yico-President, 198 ; 

 Republican list of committees adopted, 198; contest of 

 the two parties in selecting officers of the Senate, 198 ; 

 Senator Davis voted with Republicans, speeches were 

 made, criminations and recriminations followed, and tho 

 whole month of April spent in the contest, 198, 194; Re- 

 publican caucus, 194 ; nominations by the President, 194 ; 

 W. H. Robertson nominated for Collector of Customs at 

 port of New York, 194 ; Senator Conkling'g opposition, 

 and the trouble thence arising. 194 ; efforts toward set- 

 tling difficulty between the President and Conkllng un- 

 availing, 194 ; executive session, May 4th. 194 ; Conkling 

 charges Garflcld with bad faith, 194 ; Stanley Matthews 

 confirmed as Justice of the Supreme Court. 194 ; resigna- 

 tion of the New York Senators, Conkling and Platt, 195; 



reasons alleged for this step, 195; Robertson's appoint- 

 ment confirmed, 195; other appointment* confirmed, 

 195; W. E. Chandler rejected as Solicitor-General, 195 j 

 Senate adjourned, 195. 



Second special session of the Senate, October 10 to 

 October 25, 195, 196; called by President Arthur, 195; 

 special purpose, election of a president of that body, the 

 Vice-President having become President by President 

 Garfleld's death, 195; renewed troubles in organizing, 

 195; the Democrats select Senator Bayard as candidate for 

 the office of president, pro tempore, 195 ; opposed by the 

 Republicans, who selected Senator Anthony, 195; Sen- 

 ator Edmunds's motion to admit the three new Senators 

 before acting voted down, 196 ; iiew Senators sworn in, 

 195; Bayard elected, 195; standing committees contin- 

 ued, 195; Senator Davis elected president pro tempore 

 of the Senate, 195, 196 ; accepts the position, 196 ; nomi- 

 nation of C. J. Folger as Secretary of the Treasury con- 

 firmed, 196 ; contest over postmastership at Lynchburg, 

 Virginia, 196 ; protests against compelling attendance of 

 absent members in order to produce a quorum, 196 ; the 

 Senate adjourned. 



CONKLINO, ROSCOE. Resignation from the Senate, 644 ; let- 

 ter in justification, 644-646. 



Connecticut, Meeting of the Legislature, 196; L. W. Coe, 

 President of the Senate, W. C. Case, Speaker of the 

 House, 196 ; Governor Bigelow Inaugurated, 196 ; message 

 to the Legislature, 196 ; constitutional amendments rati- 

 fied by the people, 196 ; sanitary condition of the State not 

 very good, 196 ; the Governor's remarks on the manufac- 

 turing industries of the State, 196 ; finances in satisfactory 

 condition, 196, 197; receipts, expenditures, State debt, 

 etc., 196, 197 ; savings-banks, 196, 197 ; railroad operations 

 and success, 197 ; educational affairs in 'good condition, 

 197, 198 ; hospitals, reform and industrial schools, State- 

 Prison management, 197, 198; State militia, excursion to 

 Yorktown, etc., 198 ; the Legislature urged to redistribute 

 the State, 198 ; action in consequence, 198 ; complaints of 

 Democratic papers, 19S ; chief acts of the Legislature, new 

 election law, reducing tax on mutual life-insurance com- 

 panies and on the State tax in general, ordering fire-es- 

 capes in certain cases, increasing the judges' salaries, etc., 

 19S, 199 ; appropriations to public Institutions, 199 ; elec- 

 tion of U. S. Senator, 199 ; of members of Legislature, 199. 



Constitution. Condemnation of the famous frigate, 080 ; 

 her history, 621. 



Constitutional Law. Its recent progress, 475. 



Cogta Jtica, Republic (/.President, Vlce-Prcsident, and 

 Cabinet, 199 ; Costa Rican and American MlnUters, 199 ; 

 extract from letter (August, 1881) giving summary of 

 financial, agricultural, and railroad matters for the year, 

 199 ; prospect of Improvement, 199, 200 ; treaty between 

 Colombia and Costa Rica securing European arbitration 

 as to disputed territory on the Isthmus, 800. 



Cotton. Increase very great, but of small moment compared 

 with capabilities of expansion, 200; the United States 

 produces four fifths of the cotton grown In the world, 

 200 ; product of other countries (as India and Egypt) 

 diminishing, 200; average cotton-crop, can be doubled 

 and increased in some regions tenfold, 200; consumptive 

 capacity of tho world can bo multiplied, 200 ; Improved 

 methods of cultivating and handling cotton suggested by 

 Mr. Atkinson. 200; cotton oxhtoltion at Atlanta, Georgia, 

 in aid of this object, 200 ; need of more efficient helps tor 

 gathering of cotton, 200; the cotton-pickers Invented, 

 and hand-picking. 200 ; description of hand-pickers, and 

 how used, 200 ; pneumatic tube connected with an ex- 

 haust-pump or fan, 200 ; an electric cotton-picker, 200, 

 201 ; description of, 201 ; pneumatic picker working u ' 

 tomotically, 201 ; other patented modes of working, 201 ; 



