gural
Address -- The Test Oath.

CHAPTER II.--Locations of the Members and Cast of the Committees.

(Page 22-32.)

Importance of surroundings -- Members sometimes referred to
by their seats -- Senator Andrew Johnson -- Seating of the
Senators -- Drawing in the House -- The Senate Chamber as
seen from the Gallery -- Distinguished Senators -- The House
of Representatives -- Some prominent characters --
Importance of Committees -- Difficulty in their appointment
-- Important Senate Committees -- Committees of the House.

CHAPTER III.--Formation of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.

(Page 33-49.)

Lack of Excitement -- Cause -- The Resolution -- Dilatory
Motions -- Yeas and Nays -- Proposed Amendments in the
Senate -- Debate in the Senate -- Mr. Howard -- Mr. Anthony
-- Mr. Doolittle -- Mr. Fessenden -- Mr. Saulsbury -- Mr.
Hendricks -- Mr. Trumbull -- Mr. Guthrie -- Passage of the
Resolution in the Senate -- Yeas and Nays -- Remarks of Mr.
Stevens on the Amendment of the Senate -- Concurrence of the
House -- The Committee appointed.

CHAPTER IV.--Suffrage in the District of Columbia.

(Page 50-94.)

Duty of Congress to Legislate for the District of Columbia
-- Suffrage Bill introduced into the House -- Speech by Mr.
Wilson -- Mr. Boyer -- Mr. Schofield -- Mr. Kelly -- Mr.
Rogers -- Mr. Farnsworth -- Mr. Davis -- Mr. Chanler -- Mr.
Bingham -- Mr. Grinnell -- Mr. Kasson -- Mr. Julian -- Mr.
Thomas -- Mr. Darling -- Mr. Hale's Amendment -- Mr. Thayer
-- Mr. Van Horn -- Mr. Clarke -- Mr. Johnson -- Mr.
Boutwell.

CHAPTER V.--The Freedmen.

(Page 95-103.)

Necessities of the Freedmen -- Committee in the House --
Early Movement by the Senate in behalf of Freedmen --
Senator Wilson's Bill -- Occasion for it -- Mr. Cowan Moves
its reference -- Mr. Reverdy Johnson advises deliberation --
A Question of time With Mr. Sherman -- Mr. Trumbull promises
a more efficient Bill -- Mr. Sumner presents proof of the
bad condition of affairs in the South -- Mr. Cowan and Mr.
Stewart produce the President as a Witness for the Defense
-- Mr. Wilson on the Testimony -- "Conservatism" -- The Bill
absorbed in greater measures.

CHAPTER VI.--The Freedmen's Bureau Bill in the Senate.

(Page 104-137.)

The Bill introduced a