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 and referred to Judiciary Committee — Its provisions — Argument of Mr. Hendricks against it — Reply of Mr. Trumbull — Mr. Cowan's Amendment — Mr. Guthrie wishes to relieve Kentucky from the operation of the bill — Mr. Creswell desires that Maryland may enjoy the benefits of the bill — Mr. Cowan's Gratitude to God and Friendship for the Negro — Remarks by Mr. Wilson — "The short gentleman's long speech" — Yeas and Nays — Insulting title.