CIVIL Rights denied to negroes in Indiana, 117,131; all departments of the Government designed to secure, 221; denial of makes men slaves, 224.
CIVIL Rights Bill foreshadowed, 98; introduced, 188; its provisions, 189; necessity for it, 190; a dangerous measure, 192; object of it, 210; odious military features, 211; 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.