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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



political nominations, Republican, Democratic, etc., 109, 

 110 ; Democratic Governor elected, other officers- Repub- 

 lican, 110; constitutional amendment, 110; Mining and 

 Industrial Exposition in Denver, 110. 



Commerce and Finance, American, in 1882. Disasters 

 of 1881, very depressing effect, 110; harvests of 1882 en- 

 couraging, 110 ; fluctuations, 110 ; speculation mania in 

 staple products, 110, 111 ; table of commercial condi- 

 tions of 1881-'82, 111; prices of leading staples for 

 three years, 111 ; excess of exports over imports, 

 1881, excess of imports over exports, 18S2, 111 ; chief 

 causes of this, 111; table of foreign-trade movement, 

 112; agricultural extension, increase in, 112; cereals and 

 provisions, 112; crops of lSSl-'82 deficient, 112; of 

 1882-'88 increased largely, 112; exports of American 

 flour, 112; dealings in pork, 112, 113; cotton-crop, large 

 exports, 118; amounts used at home, 113; speculations 

 failed, 113; table of cotton manufactures exported for 

 four years, 114; European consumption of cotton, 114; 

 petroleum, large exports, value, etc., 114; probable run 

 ning out in the future, 114 ; heavy speculations and fail- 

 ures, 114, 115 ; iron, production of, 115; business fluctua- 

 tions. 115 ; production of coal, 115 ; money market, state 

 of, variable, 115; national banks and system, 115, 116; 

 working of, 116; table of coin and currency, 18T9 to 1882, 

 116; product of gold-mines, 116; amounts of gold, sil- 

 ver, and paper currency in sight, 1879 to 1882, 116; gold 

 certificates, silver certificates, 117; average rate of inter- 

 est, 1874 to 18S2, 117; exchanges, 117; stock market, 

 operations in, 117, 118 ; war of rates between railroads 

 118 ; railroad construction large in 1882, 118; capital in- 

 vested, persons employed, etc., 118 ; trunk-line war, 118, 

 119; "Nickel-Plate" line, 119; other Western roads, 

 119; Western Union and other telegraph companies, 

 contentions, etc., 119 ; gross earnings of railroads, 119 ; 

 dividends declared by companies, IIP, 120. 



CongregationaUsts. Statistics of churches, ministers, and 

 members, 120; theological seminaries, 120; annual meet- 

 ings of American Congregational Union, New West 

 Educational Commission, Home Missionary Society, 

 Missionary Association, 120, 121 ; incomes, expendi- 

 tures, work accomplished, 120, 121 ; Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, annual meeting, summary 

 of work, 121; the discussion as to Andover Seminary 

 and Dr. N. Smyth, 122 ; British Congregationalists, 122 ; 

 London Missionary Society, 122 ; Congregational Un- 

 ion of England and Wales, annual meeting, income, 

 education, jubilee fund, etc., 122. 



Congress, United States. First session of the Forty-sev- 

 enth, 123 ; list of Senators and Eepresentatives, 123, 124; 

 changes, twenty -two new Senators, 123. 



In the Senate, New Tork senatorial election. Commit- 

 tee on Privileges and Elections ask for discharge, 124 ; 

 statement of Mr. Hill, of Georgia, 124, 125 ; the Garfield 

 Memorial, Senator Sherman's resolution, 125; committee 

 appointed by the Senate, also by the House, 126; report, 

 preamble and resolutions, both adopted, 126; day ap- 

 pointed for memorial services, 126 ; programme of ar- 

 rangements, 126, 127. 



In the House, February 27th, in accordance with the 

 programme, the President, Cabinet, officers of Army and 

 Navy, Justices of the Supreme Court, and other invited 

 guests, together with the Senate, assembled, the Presi- 

 dent of the Senate occupying tho Speaker's chair, 126, 

 127 ; prayer offered by the House Chaplain, 127 ; orator 

 for the occasion, Hon. James G. Elaine, 127 ; oration in 

 full, 127-134 ; closing action of the Senate and House, 134. 

 In the Senate, resolution to refer to committee of sev- 

 en, petitions, etc., in favor of woman suffrage, 134 ; re- 

 marks of Senators Vest and Hoar, 134-136 ; amendment 



to refer to Standing Committee on Revolutionary Claims 

 lost, 136; motion to refer to Committee on Judiciary, 

 136 ; discussed by Senators Bayard, Beck, and Morgan, 

 136-139; resolution adopted, 139. 



In the House, bill for creating a Tariff Commission 

 consisting of nine members, 139 ; duty of said commis- 

 sion, 139 ; discussed by several members, 139-142 ; bill 

 passed by the House, 142. 



In the Senate, the bill considered in Committee of the 

 Whole, 142 ; bill passed by the Senate, 142. 



In the House, bill to apportion Representatives consid- 

 ered, 142, 143 ; statement of the system on which present 

 bill is based, 143 ; by this bill Maine, New Hampshire, 

 and Vermont lose one each, 143 ; under old method Cali- 

 fornia, Florida, and Rhode Island gain one each, which 

 they lose by the new, and Illinois, New York, and Penn- 

 sylvania gain the same, 143 ; distribution said to favor 

 great States to injury of small, 144, 145 ; great paradoxes 

 charged, 145, 146 ; 320 number proposed, 146 ; amend- 

 ment proposing 325, apportioned according to old meth- 

 od, 147 ; amendment adopted and bill passed, 147 ; passed 

 also in Senate, text of the bill, 147 ; number of presiden- 

 tial electors under this apportionment, 148. 



In the House, River and Harbor Bill returned by the 

 President, with his objections, 148 ; vote on the bill, with 

 the veto message, 148, 149 ; provision for retirement of 

 army officers, 149; age for such retirement, 149; age 

 agreed upon by the two Houses, 149, 150 ; joint resolu- 

 tion recommending an international conference for fixing 

 upon a common prime meridian, 150; report of Commit- 

 tee on Foreign Affairs in favor of the resolution, 150. 151 ; 

 passed by the House and subsequently by the Senate, 151. 



In the Senate, debate on the resolution relative to po- 

 litical assessments, 151 ; Senator Pendleton's remarks on 

 the Jay Hubbell circular calling for voluntary contribu- 

 tions to protect and promote interests of Republican party, 

 151-154 ; reply of Senator Hale, 154, 155 ; other Senators' 

 remarks, 155, 156 ; no action, 156 ; bill to place General 

 Grant on the retired list brought up and discussed, 156- 

 162 ; Senator Vest's remarks in opposition, 156-158 ; Sena- 

 tor Logan's in favor, 158, 159 ; Senator Bayard's amend- 

 ment, 159 ; views of Southern Senators, 160-162 ; amend- 

 ment rejected, bill passed, 162. 



In the Senate, the bill to enforce treaty stipulations re- 

 lating to the Chinese taken up, 162 ; substitute proposed, 

 1 62 ; amendment making ten instead of twenty years lost, 

 162; Senator Hoar's argument, 162, 163; Senator Ed- 

 munds's reply, 163,164 ; further discussion, 164-167 ; final 

 action, bill passed, 167. 



In the House, Chinese Immigration Bill passed, 167; 

 message from the President, returning the bill with his 

 objections,167-169 ; modified bill on the subject considered 

 and adopted, 170 ; adopted also by the Senate, 170. 



The session closed August 8th. 



Connecticut. State officers, 170 ; meeting of the Legislature, 

 170, 171 ; Governor's message, 171 ; work of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station and the Storrs Agricultural 

 School, 171 ; acts passed in aid of the station and other 

 agricultural societies, 171 ; Insane Asylum, 171 ; other ac- 

 tion respecting children in almshouses, penitentiary, re- 

 organizing State courts, etc., 171 ; bills passed, 171, 172 ; 

 appropriations from State Treasury, 172 ; reports of sav- 

 ings-banks, 172 ; statistics of railroads in the State and 

 other roads, 172, 173 ; life and fire insurance companies, 

 173 ; cost of public schools, etc., 173; population by coun- 

 ties, 178 ; Republican Convention, platform and ticket, 

 173; Democratic Convention, platform and ticket, 173, 

 174; other nominations, 175; Democratic ticket elected, 

 175 ; Republican majority in the Legislature, 175. 

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