FOREIGNERS not discriminated against in the Civil Rights Bill, 254.
FOSTER, L. S., as President of the Senate, 23; retirement from the office, 576.
FREEDMEN, their necessities and numbers, 95; Committee on, 31, 95; Senator Wilson's bill to protect, 95; objections to, 98; laid over, 103.
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU, a bill to enlarge introduced in the Senate, 105; its provisions, 105; its expense, 111; its military feature, 112; for the negro, against the white man, 119; not designed to be permanent, 121; establishment of schools, 130; passes the Senate, 136; brought up in the House, 138; passage, 157; "a dissolution of the Union," 160; its bounty to the whites, 163; veto of, 164.
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL, the second reported, its provisions, 295; passage in the House, 295; in the Senate, 296; form as it became a law, 298; veto of, 302; passage over the veto, 306; the bill and the veto, 563.
FREEDOM elevates the colored race, 85.
FRIENDSHIP for the negro, Mr. Cowan's, 135.
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, its provisions employed in the Civil Rights
Bill, 190, 192;
its re-enactment in the Civil Rights Bill opposed, 212;
and advocated, 213;
used for a good end, 216.
GARBLING, an example of, 572.
GENERAL Government supreme to confer citizenship, 239.