opposed, 216;
explained and defended, 217;
have been in the law thirty years, 218;
bill passes in the Senate, 219;
before the House, 220;
recommitted, 233;
its beneficence towards Southern rebels, 233;
interferes with State rights, 222, 236;
amendment proposed by Mr. Bingham, 237;
rejected, 242;
argued as unconstitutional, 237,
reply, 239;
passes the House, 243;
odious title proposed, 243;
as amended, passes the Senate, 244;
vetoed by the President, 246;
veto answered, 253;
passes over the veto, 288, 289;
the form in which it became a law, 290;
propriety of placing it in the Constitution, 438.

COLFAX, Schuyler, elected Speaker of the House, 20;
vote of thanks to, 576.

COLLOQUY between Chanler and Bingham, 67;
Davis and Trumbull, 136, 199;
Clark and Davis, 201;
Brooks and Stevens, 336;
Higby and Hill, 356;
Dixon and Trumbull, 424;
Doolittle, Nye, and Lane, 457;
Ashley, Conkling, and Stevens, 513;
Doolittle and Wilson, 531;
on specie payments, Stevens, Wentworth, and Garfield, 556.

COLLAR the President's, charge of wearing repelled, 284.

COLOR of a citizen not inquired into in our early history, 51;
should not be regarded in our laws, 53;
indefiniteness of the term, 360.

COLORADO, reason of the non-admission of, 559.

COMMERCE, Committee on, 27, 30.

COMMISSIONER of Freedmen's Bureau, 140.

COMMITTEES, the importance of, in legislation, 25;
difficulty of selecting, 26.

COMMITTEE on Reconstruction, 49;
report of, 466;
difficulty of obtaining information by, 467;
conclusion of, 471.

COMPOUND Interest Notes, attempt to redeem, 558.

COMPROMISE of Moral Principles opposed, 374.

CONCERT of action desired, 37.

CONFEDERATION, the old, and the Constitution, 316.

CONFISCATION discarded by civilized nations, 320.

CONGRESS, no danger to be feared from usurpation by, 501;
as described by President Johnson, 561;
salutary effect of vetoes upon, 563.

CONNECTICUT, the voice of on negro suffrage, 394.

CONSERVATISM the worst word in the language, 101.

CONSERVATIVES represented by Mr. Raymond, 314.

CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment, what laws may be passed under, 118.

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