reports resolution recognizing Hahn government of La., [233];
breaks temporarily with Sumner, [234];
letter of Shaffer to, on conditions in South, [242], [243],
and of Ray, on Reconstruction, [243];
his speech on postponement of Wilson bill invalidating certain acts, etc., of seceding states, [248]-[251];
colloquy with Saulsbury, [250];
introduces Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills, [257];
speaks, in debate on the former, on construction of second clause of 13th Amendment, [258]-[260];
colloquy with Henderson, [260];
letter from Ray, on negro suffrage, [261];