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INDEX 



Rates of Freight on Railroads (U. S., 

 Senate Kept.}, 346. 



Reagan, Congressman, 227. 



Reagan bill in Congress, 228, 229. 



Reciprocity with Canada, 115. 



Reeves, W. S., organizes grange, 51. 



Reform, third party proposed for, 53; 

 advocated by Independents, 100. 



Reform party, see Independent party 

 movement. 



Regulation and Control of Railroads 

 (U. S., House Kept.}, 344. 



Religion, discussion in Grange prohibited, 

 58. 



" Report of the Erie Investigating Com- 

 mittee," 342. 



Republican party, status in 1865, 80; 

 declares for railroad regulation in 

 Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, 90, 

 181. See also Independent party 

 movement. 



Repudiation of railroad bonds, n. 



Retail dealers, and farmers, 18. See 

 also Middlemen, Merchants. 



Reynolds, Corbett, and Thomas, Illinois 

 Grange agents, 246. 



Rhode Island, 66. 



Rhodes, J. F., United States from the 

 Compromise of 1850, 332. 



Richardson, J. D., Messages and Papers 

 of the Presidents, 315. 



Richmond (Va.), National Cheap Trans- 

 portation Association, 226. 



Rienzi (Miss.), grange organized, 51. 



" Right to Confiscate," 346. 



Rings, California commission men, 9; 

 railroad construction, 10, 344. 



Ringwalt, J. L., Transportation Systems, 

 346. 



Ritual of Grange, 40-44. 



Robertson, Colonel D. A., assists in 

 organizing grange, 46; editor Minne- 

 sota Monthly, 326. 



Robinson, Governor (Vt.), 282. 



Rochdale Pioneers (Eng.), 275. 



Rochdale plan of cooperation, rules 

 promulgated by National Grange, 

 259, 350; advantages, 261; used by 



Grange stores, 263-267; state laws 

 prevent full use, 276; bibliography, 



350, 35i. 

 Rock County (Wis.), Pomona Grange, 



bibliography, 321. 

 Rock Hill Grange (S. C), 328. 

 Rock River Farmer (Dixon, 111.), 324. 

 Rocky Mountain Husbandman (White 



Sulphur Springs, Mont.), 326. 

 Root, G. F., Trumpet of Reform, 339. 

 Ross, member Illinois constitutional 



convention, 128. 

 Ruggles v. Illinois, 207. 

 Rural Alabamian (Mobile), 321. 

 Rural Carolinian (Charleston, S. C.), 



5i,328. 



Rural Nebraska (Omaha), 326. 

 Rural Southerner and Plantation (At- 

 lanta), 322. 



Rural Sun (Nashville, Tenn.), 328. 

 Rural World (St. Louis, Mo.), 49, 326. 

 Ryan, Chief-Justice (Wis.), upholds 



Potter law, 189. 



Saby, R. S., Railroad Legislation in 

 Minnesota, 349. 



Sacramento (Calif.), Farmers' Union 

 organized, 60. 



Sacramento Valley Agriculturist (Sacra- 

 mento, Calif.), 322. 



St. Johnsbury (Vt.), grange organized, 

 51; Patrons' celebration, 56. 



St. Louis (Mo.), granges organized near, 

 49; seventh session National Grange, 

 63, 68, 224, 282, 296; National Agri- 

 cultural Congress organized, 78; 

 Grange agency, 249; National Far- 

 mers' Alliance session, 304. 



St. Paul (Minn.), grange organized, 46. 



St. Paul and Pacific railroad, 163. 



St. Paul and Sioux City railroad, 163. 



St. Paul railroad, see Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee, and St. Paul. 



" Salary grab," in Congress, 86, 106, 120. 



San Francisco (Calif.), Farmers' Union 

 convention, 60. 



San Joaquin and King's River Canal 

 Company (Calif.), 107. 



