States .... .....1872 ......... Mr. Stevens......... ......2517 ......... ..... 302 Bankruptcy--Continued. Banks, Nathaniel P., a Representative from Benjamin, John F., a Representative from Mis- souri... 19, 149, 193, 194, 203, 231, 235, 300, 922 724, 754, 771, 772, 773, 1125, 1148, 1193, North America....., 1213, 1334 1902, 1903, 1904, 1943, 1944, 1994, 1995, 781, 1693 remarks on the French Industrial Exposi 2025, 2158, 2161, 2190, 2370, 2517, 2578, .756, tion............ 1371, 1372, 1373, 1374, 1375, 2603, 2605, 2606, 2629, 2633, 2656, 2688, 1399, 1402, 1405, 1406, 3304, 3305 3197, 3205, 3297, 3306, 3352, 3353, 3360, remarks on the personal explanation of Mr. 3361, 3474, 3517, 3519, 3539, 3540, 3600, 1422 3601, 3602, 3627, 3689, 3891, 3949, 3985, 759, 760 .19, 360, 422 remarks on the bill for the relief of Charlotte 194 bia.......... ...... 235 .1686 remarks on a uniform coinage between the remarks on the bill granting a pension to .772 758, 847, 848 remarks on the bill to establish a Bureau of remarks on the deficiency bill.... 1125 .3046 remarks on reconstruction, 1840, 1841, 1842 3446, 3447 remarks on the resolution for relief of Mrs. ..3498 Martha McCook........... 1943, 1944 .781, 1686, 1873 remarks on the miscellaneous appropriation remarks on the organization of the Pension .....2025 ..759, 779, 780 remarks on the assault case of Rousseau and remarks on the Iowa and Missouri State Line 2158 .1876 tions of the United States, 4194, 4195, 4197 remarks on the increase of pensions.... 3297 Barclay, J. Judson, bill (H. R. No. 683) for remarks on the tariff bill............ 3517, 3600 ......... 1971 the relief of..............435, 3197, 3568, 3572 | Bergen, Teunis G., a Representative from New .1971 Barker, Abraham A., a Representative from York........ 723, 724, 858, 978, 1096, 1098, .1971, 1972 .195, 1099, 1129, 1259, 1342, 1348, 1349, 1505, .1971 324, 1149, 1162, 1587, 1952 1573, 1656, 1695, 1898, 2287, 2623, 2656, system of, throughout the United || Barton, Miss Clara, joint resolution (S. No. 3377, 4147, 4263, 4274, 4275, 4283, 4288 2655, 2742 36) providing for expenses incurred by, in remarks on naval appropriation bill, 723, 724 searching for missing soldiers of the Army remarks on the deficiency bill...... .858, 1098, 1099, 1129 .2655 prosecution of the same..... 1200, 1258, 1296 remarks on the fortification bill...... .1348 ....., 2743 .1898 2790 of the heirs of. ..895, 899, 1150, 1190 remarks on the death of James Humphrey, ...3376, 3377 ..... 1376, | Berry, Major General Hiram G., Will (S. No. ,2282 1406, 1535, 1615, 1820, 1905, 1925, 375) to amend an act granting a pension 2019, 2161, 2191, 2352, 2353, 2480 to the widow of the late...3306, 3353, 3404 .4279 ..4279 .2573 States.......... 1796, 1966, 1920, 2235, 2246 | Berryman, Otway H., deceased, bill (S.No. 284) for the relief of the children of, 2780, 2927 .1921 | Bestor, George C., and Charles W. McCord, Mr. Stevens 1920 resolution directing the Secretary of the ..8, inquire into and determine how much the 1017, 1018, 1019, 1031, 1036, 1200, 1272, Utlah, built by Charles W. MeCord, at 1699, 1720, 1727, 1751, 1861, 1872, 1873, and above the contract price and allow- Mr. Garfield.... .4284 .20, 135, 1682 Mr. Hogan........ .4284 4284 ...815, 816, 817, 818, 819 Mr. Rice, of Massachusetts. 4284 1015, joint resolution for the relief of....... .4308 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 2537 Bidwell, John,a Representative from California, 49, 71, 114, 224, 235, 299, 300, 350, 435, 460, 508, 518, 580, 775, 778, 886, 919, 4255, 4256, 4274, 4277, 4286, 4287, 4288 Secretary of the Treasury to audit and pay 1333, 1346, 1494, 1503, 1504, 1505, 1506, ..3375 1550, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1719, 1725, 1875, .99, 100 ment Iowa volunteer infantry, bill (H. R. 2659, 2728, 2730, 2741, 2745, 2746, 2772, 2862, 3043, 3112, 3144, 3163, 3251, 3267, Mr. Benjamin ..................... 194 3269, 3298, 3299, 3300, 3326, 3405, 3406, .583 194 3461, 3513, 3536, 3562, 3565, 3566, 3567, 3590, 3591, 3592, 3593, 3651, 3652, 3653, Mr. Washburne, of Illinois .......... 194 3655, 3682, 3747, 3749, 3798, 3874, 3932, .838 193 3933, 4050, 4189, 4190, 4201, 4258, 3309 .........2573 case ............ ...194 3405 ure....... Bidwell, John, a Representative from Califor Blaine, James G., a Representative from Bounties-Continued. Maine......18, 60, 136, 141, 233, 252, 275, bill to equalize, to soldiers of the Army of the 70, 681 1250, 1251, 1290, 1298, 1303, 1332, 1333, struction to the law in relation to, payable to soldiers discharged for wounds. .....1789, 1861, 1868, 1945 ......1574, 1682, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1973, 1974, colored soldiers, and the pensions, boun- 1899 1976, 1978, 2002, 2007, 2047, 2018, 2070, ties, and allowances to their heirs..... 1796, 1874, 3112, 3144, 3148, 3402 2293, 2296, 2297, 2298, 2299, 2316, 2341, the payment of, to certain Indian regi- ..2927, 3166, 3194, 3203 ......... 3269, 3298, 3299 2659, 2688, 2743, 2780, 2781, 2782, 2825, bill (H. R. No. 602) to equalize the, of sol- 2909, 2910, 2982, 2933, 2976, 2978, 2979, the late war for the Union............ .....2678, 2088, 2743, 2808 .18, Mr. Schenck..... .2824, 2825, 2826 ......3798 ..2827 142, 376, 377 eran volunteers so as to protect the rights .2839, 4204 .....582, 583 joint resolution (H. R. No. 176) amendatory 3644, 4107 remarks on transferring Jefferson and Berke of a joint resolution respecting, to col- .14, 32, remarks on the Army appropriation bill, 1193 and allowances to their heirs, approved .3402, .1206 3404, 4102, 4107,4154 .3402 Mr. McKee... 3403 ....3402, 3403 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1973, 1974, left their commands without authority, but 1976, 2002, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2076, subsequently returned, and were killed in 2077, 2149, 2151, 2162, 2143, 3329 battle or died from wounds received while .............117 2460 to soldiers, seamen, and marine in the 2658, 2780, 2781, 2850 bill to provide that in case of the death of on the motion to recommit the peti heirs be entitled to pension and ......... 159 ..14, mittee on Invalid Pensions...... ..... 3206 Army of the United States in the years .349 ..222 of....... :3568, 3595,4191, 4202 unteers of 1863 and 1864, equalizing the, 429, 430, 431, 432, 484 || Blanchard, Henry P., bill for the relief of, 2809 bill to give a, in land to the officers and sol. ferson counties to the State of West Vir souri.. ..... 19, 69, 135, 349, 646, 762, joint resolution (S. No. 87) to provide ... 697 2286, 2375, 2376, 2688, 2817, 3443, 3596 for the payment of, to certain Indian regiments.. .2824, 3194 1088, 1089, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094 remarks in relation to bridges over the Mis of the law of....... .3043, 3590, 3598 -2375, 2376 | Bounty land, bill to extend the benefits of the, ters of the Army. ................... 1896, 1897 bill (H. R. No. 772) to authorize the issue served in the late war of 1861...........49 ...3794, 4102, 4154 United States.. ....349 Boutwell, George S., a Representative from of the Court of Claims.......... .2202 | Bounties, resolution in relation to the payment 813, 835, 839, 1098, 1147, 1162, 1206, .15 1220, 1258, 1303, 1458, 1459, 1468, 1498, .2236, 2237 bill giving bounty lands and money to the 1535, 1560, 1810, 1842, 1854, 1855, 1850, 1857, 1869, 1970, 1999, 2095, 2096, 2152, ..... 18 2190, 2215, 2313, 2341, 2342, 2343, 2368, 2597, 2603, 2624, 2634, 2656, 2762, 2782, ...3635 vice of the United States, and for the relief 2791, 2993, 3048, 3049, 3055, 3085, 8089, 3571, 3588, 3689, 3691, 3692, 3793, 3798, Tennessee entitled to representation in received no, such additional bounty as will 3978, 4010, 4018, 4019, 4148, 4203, 4204, render as nearly as practicable the paid 4251, 4252, 4268, 4275, 4288, 4284, 4286 4, 1854, 3089 .4285 proportion to the time of service......... 22 remarks on the homestead bili........ 253, 254 69, 646 ........,1999 ......1333 case.... mac... .9, 30 Boutwell, George S., a Representative from Bridge Continued. Brooks, James, a Representative from New bill to declare a certain, over the Mississippi York- Continued. Y...,308, 309, 310 bill to authorize the Keokuk and Hamilton remarks on the bill to regulate the registry .533 1582, 1585, 1586 2096, 2507, 2508, 2509, 3176, 3177, 3246 bill to authorize the Milwaukee and Prairie the intercontinental telegraph. ...........922 2342, 2343 across the Mississippi river, and to estab North America....... 1250, 1251, 1339, 1341 remarks on the fortification bill....1346, 1368 .1534 ..2993 city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, and remarks on the Post Office appropriation ..1534 1587, 1723 remarks on the New York contested-election .608, 609, 610, 611, 613, 614, 615, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1791 .3798 joint resolution (S. No. 113) for the construc (See Appendix.) 1615 ..10, 75, 98, 148, .4203 ...2838, 3166, 3201, 3298 469, 470, 493, 904, 920, 947, 948, 1005, 1125, 1126, 1160, 1161, 1176, 1199, 1200, No. 395) for the relief of........1452, 2233 the Mississippi river, and to establish a 1496, 1497, 1498, 1535, 1606, 1727, 1797, 3166 2068, 2097, 2119, 2156, 2240, 2241, 2246, the Missouri river, and declaring the same 3085, 3086, 3426, 3501, 3782, 3981, 4157, .81, 98 ..3406 4159, 4265, 4266, 4277, 4278, 4285, 4287 .698, 755 Bridges, bill (S. No. 236) to authorize the con resolutions by .....10, 98, 104, 150, 233, 1495 struction of certain, and to establish post remarks on the personal explanation of Mr. .2299, 148 2330, 2474, 3769, 3811, 4020, 4054 remarks on the basis of representation....433 remarks on reconstruction ..466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 2498, 2499, 2500 .2375, remarks on the deficiency bill...... 1125, 1126 3769, 3811, 3812, 3813, 3816, 3817 remarks on the civil rights bill 1262, ...2375, 2376 Mr. Grinnell 1263, 1264, 1265 ...2375 Mr. Harding, of Illinois........ 2374, 2375 remarks on the loan bill.....1496, 1497, 1498 remarks on the bill to reimburse the State 3812, 3813 Mr. Johnson...... 3815, 3816 .1606 war purposes....... Mr. Kasson........2374, 2375, 2376, 3769 remarks on the Northern Pacific railroad ......1607, 1608 .2240, 2241 2375, 3814, 3815 .2374 remarks on printing the reports of the com- mittee on the Memphis riots.....4265, 4266 yeas and nays on the................. 3770, 3817 Broome, John M., joint resolution for the re- lief of, and others..... ..........3374 authorize the construction of certain, and Brown, Rice M., bill for the relief of ........644 .3879, 3880 to establish them as post roads........4285 | Bryant, Colonel' R. E., bill (H. R. No. 214) .9 Illinois...... 19, 276, 277, 409, 410, 411, 431, | Buckingham, Imogene, bill (H. R. No. 701) 1022, 1023, 1024, 1507, 1820, 1952, 2041, Buckland, Ralph P., a Representative from ....918, 1024, 16:23, ..2120 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627, 1694, 1820, 1968, .10, 14, 15, 49, 3891, 3913, 3975, 4156, 4190, 4269, 4275 remarks on reconstruction..... .1623, resolutions by... 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627 remarks on the basis of representation....409, || Bundy, Hezekiah S., a Representative from 410, 887, 919 Ohio... 1036, 1099, 1130, 1162, 1189, 1303, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1024, 2904, 2905, 2906 1560, 1820, 1861, 1894, 2131, 2264, 2394, 2344 resolutions by.. ...1189, 1495, 1894 .49, remarks on the bill for the relief of Thomas remarks on the legislative, &c., appropriation ...... 2625, 2626 bill. ........ 1502 remarks on reconstruction---see Appendix. 3498 2997, 2998, 2999, 3000, 3001, 3002, 3006 York, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 33, 47, 61, 75, 81, 1503, 1576, 1684, 1899, 2023, 2120, 2187, pension to..... ..2688, 2876, 3353, 3404 379, 380, 460, 493, 531, 533, 538, 546, 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, 3061, 3062, for the relief of...... 2235, 2385, 3548, 3908 614, 615, 646, 647, 714, 813, 856, 895, resolutions by...46, 138, 460, 2120, 2393, 2945 103 3536 1534, 1535, 1582, 1583, 1585, 1586, 1615, remarks on the legislative, &c., appropriation 1503 1796, 1812, 1814, 1815, 1817, 1818, 1819 remarks on the bill relating to agricultural ..5 colleges...... .. 1576 1684 70 bers......... .2187 bill ... .3, 4.11 bill.......... ............. 2573 Burleigh, Walter A., à Delegate from Dakota | Canal, bill (H. R. No. 344) to construct a ship, || Chanler, John W., a Representative from New around the falls of Niagara-Continued. York-Continued. remarks on the basis of representation, 381, 2041 382, 383 .2329 remarks on the bill enlarging the powers of ...... 624 .3087, 3088 2147, 2324, 2325, 2326, 2327, 2328 (See Appendix.) .2330 remarks on the bill granting homesteads to ....4276 of a harbor and ship, at Portage Lake, remarks relative to the courts and post office ..827 said State..........2078, 2148, 3462, 3501 remarks on the deficiency bill....., 1098 2625, 2626 remarks on regulating trade with British .2625, 2626 ..1335, 1340 armed and naval vessels from the Missis remarks on the French Industrial Expo- sippi river to Lake Michigan, and for other sition........ ........ 1393, 1394, 1395 purposes..... 2315 remarks on the resolution to facilitate com- .....4092, 4278 bisl granting the right of way and making a munication with certain Territories...1918 grant of land to the Sierra Nevada and remarks on prohibiting the sale of liquor in .233 Contra Costa Irrigation and, Company, the Capitol building and grounds...... 1920 in the State of California..... 2571 remarks on the bill to reorganize the Army, 1948, 1973, 2005, 2006, 2042, 2124 peake Bay and Potomac River Tidewater, remarks on the bill relating to immigration, Company to enter the District of Colum &c........... .... 2314, 2315 remarks on the Freedmen's Bureau appro- .2317, 2318 bridge..................2926, 3935, 4093, 4156 remarks on appointing commissioners to the .2342 resolation of censure of........ ..........2573 1494 boldt, Company through the public lands remarks on the, by- Mr. Chanler............ .2573, 2574, 2575 ...2574, 2575 Swamp, Company...........3419, 4094, 4102 Mr. Schenck... bill to aid in the construction of a, in the .2575 yeas and nays on the.... counties of Tehamo, Colusa, Yola, and remarks on the revenue bill................ .2579 ...... 616, 1812 ......8, 9 Capitol, resolution appointing a committee joint resolution (H. R. No. 210) to authorize on the decoration of the south wing of payment of the......... ......4309, 4310 .... 1724 | Chaves, J. Francesco, a Delegate from New concurrent resolution prohibiting the sale of México......... .350, 811, 919, 2373, 4307 spirituous and other liquors in the, build remarks on the bill setting aside certain pro- 350, 1147 ing and grounds... 1919, 1949, 1969, 1997 ceeds from internal revenue to erect peni- remarks on the, by- tentiaries in certain Territories.........4307 1920 resolution by......... ............512 Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, 1919, 1920 Chenery, Richard, bill (H. R. No. 588) for the .1920 relief of....... ......2623, 4190 ........1919 || Cholera, joint resolution providing for the bill (S. No. 386) to enlarge the public grounds appointment by the Secretary of War, .3723 surrounding the......... under the direction of the Surgeon Gen- Carter, Captain John C., joint resolution pro eral, of a commission to visit Constanti- viding for the restoration of, United States nople and inquire into the best means to .129 prevent the spread of, and for other par- poses...... 1587 ....2023 joint resolution (H. R. No. 116) to prevent ...... 2121, 2733, 2771, 2807, 2824 Citizens, bill (H. R. No. 437) to declare and vent the spread of foreign diseases among protect all the privileges and immunities cember 18, 1865......... 923, 1207 States....... .............1719, 2434, 4148 Cemeteries, bill to provide suitable monuments bill to protect the rights of action of loyal, 2723 3043 bill (H. R. No. 788) to establish and to pro City of Richmond, joint resolution (S. No. 62) .3043 .3974, 4191 authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury ..3043 | Census, bill providing for a special enumera to change the name of the steamboat, to State of Michigan to aid in the construc prior to October 1, 1866.................. 644 cinda Van Valkenburg to Camden...2727, 2926, 3419 ..........46, appropriations to supply deficiencies in the 47, 48, 181, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, appropriations for sundry, of the Govern- 221, 222, 284, 351, 352, 379, 380, 381,513, ment for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 2146, 2319 1059, 1067, 1087, 1092, 1096, 1098, 1148, bill (H. R. No. 612) to amend an act mak- 1207, 1290, 1335, 1340, 1346, 1348, 1393, ing appropriations for sundry, of the Gov. ...... 2741, 4308 2329 1973, 1974, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2025, 2026, bill (H. R. No. 737) making appropriations 2031, 2002, 2041, 2042, 2119, 2120, 2124, for sundry, of the Government for the 2180, 2246, 2314, 2015, 2317, 2318, 2330, year ending June 30, 1867, and for other purposes.. .3490, 3793, 3796, 4189, 4193, 4253, 4265, 4280, 4282, 4286, 4307, 4308, 4309 ..2040, 2041 ity before the law......... .46, 47, 48 Mr. Banks.........3796, 4255, 4256, 4287 Mr. Bidwell... .3798 ...3795 811 .... 2329 ... 1582 ......... .....4097 4100, sas Civil expenses, bill making appropriations for sundry, of the Government for the year poses--Continued. .3798 .3795 .3798, 3799 ..4258 4268 3798 3798 4258 .3796 .3795, 4254 ....3794, 3795 8801 3799 ..8797 4287 4258, 4260 .3799 .3794, ..3799 .3793, ..3802, song in the United States in their, and to 646, 688, 1115, 1151, 1262, 1290, 1366, 1422, 1452, 1828, 1832, 1855, 1857 Mr. Bingham...... 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293 1123, 1124, 1125 1265 1295, 1296 .1158 .1266, 1267 1156, 1157 1115, .1832, ...98, 3141 ......856 ..1125 .1097 .1125, 1126 .1097 1098 ...864 ...........858, 1126 ....862, .1584 .1585, 1586 .... 865 ...1127 .1097, 1583 .857, 858 .861, .856, .1584 Civil service, bill to regulate the, of the Uni Claims, the Committee of.......... .21 instructions to..... ..1450, 1495, 1547, 2341, 2430, 2877 .1099, 1129 reports from...195, 302, 615, 616, 1149, 1150, ..860 1401, 1550, 1703, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2233, .1097, 1582 2234, 2235, 2877, 3090, 3200, 3207, 3327, .......68, 1097 195, 324, 615, 616, 1149, 1150, 1401, 1893, 1894, 2201, 2233, 2285, 2877, .856 2980, 3206, 3207, 3327, 3375, 3981 discharged from subjects..............615, 616, .858, 778, 970, 1149, 1523, 1550, 1703, 1727, 2235, 3207, 4280 Clark, Ethan Ray, and Samuel Ward, bill (S. No. 402) to confirm the title of, to cer- tain lands in the State of Florida, claimed under a grant from the Spanish Govern- ment.... .3541, 4063 ..1583 Clarke, Edward St. Clair, bill (S. No. 283) for the relief of..... 3240, 3306 Clarke, James G., bill (S. No. 248) for the relief of...... 1874, 1917, 2023, 3032 Clarke, R. L. B., bill (H. R. No. 347) for the relief of.... ..... 1149, 2393, 2431 Clarke, R. L. B. :-see Guthrie, Clarke, Reader W., a Representative from Ohio.......... 188, 349, 350, 748, 919, 978, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1468, 2430, 2579, 2608, 2729, 2730, 2851, 2904, 2946, 3062, 3063, 3064, 3065, 3066, 3067, 3538, 3795, 4047 .4100, 4101 resolutions by...... 138, 350, 2430, 2946, 4047 remarks on reconstruction.... 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010 remarks on the tax bill....... 2729 .3064, 3065, 3066, 3067 4098 remarks on the mişcellaneous appropriation ..3795 ..4100 | Clarke, Sidney, a Representative from Kan- .60, 101, 102, 103, 104, 130, ..4098, 4099 713, 978, 1068, 1200, 1376, 1683, 1703, ...4057 2571, 3682, 3913, 3914, 3915, 4061, 4191 580, 713, 3682 4262 destitute Indians..... .101, 103, 104 3141 remarks on suffrage in the District of Colum- . 302, 303, 305 1683 remarks on reconstruction.. .1837, 1838, 1889, 1840 remarks on the death of Senator Lane, of ......1796 Kansas...... ......3913, 3914, 3916 Clerk, resolution that the Committee on Mines .....1796 and Mining be allowed to have a, who 1796 shall receive the usual compensation fixed .1796 by the House for clerks of committees...811 .1796 yeas and nays on the...... resolution that the committees of the House .255 having clerks, be instructed to report to the House whether a, is necessary for the transaction of their business; what .719 portion of the time of the, is occupied in the business of the committee, and what portion in attending to the private .1032 1032 yeas and nays on the.......... resolution allowing an additional, to the ......... 2066, 2067 Sergeant-at-Arms......... counsel in cases of, depending against the Clerks, resolution directing the heads of De- Government of the United States...... 2546 partments to report the number of, male and female, now in their respective Depart- ments, from which States they were ap- pointed, and what was their occupation 1494 before appointment; and also the names, number, and residences, if any, of such as have been in the late rebel army, and by whom the latter class were recommended for appointment ...2430 remarks on the, by- Mr. Smith ....... 2430 .8644, 4107 port of......... ......860 ..609 |