TABLE OP CONTENTS.

Votes in House on Enlistment and Habeas
Corpus clauses—Votes in Senate on extension
of the latter, on Mr. Sherman's proposition
to assess damages, and on Habeas Corpus
clause—Votes in House on Assessment sec-
tion—Proposed extension of ^Habeas Corpus
section, and votes in -Senate and House—
Amendatory Enforcement Act, and votes in
Senate and House.

XVI. Tariff and Taxation 91-96

Bill to repeal duties on Tea and CoffeeTand
votes in House and Senate—The Tariff Act,
and votes in House and Senate—Bill to re-
peal the duties on Salt, and vote in the
House—Billto repeal the duties on Coal, and
vote in the House-^ResoTutions in-House- by
Messrs. Hibbard on Tariff-- Reform* Kelley
on Revenue Reform, Bell on Taxation, Hale
on Free Salt and Coal, and Cox on Pig Iron.

XVII. Relation* «*f tiie United States and
Great Britain ...9^-108

Copy of the Treaty of Washington and Pres-
ident Grant's Message transmitting- to the
Senate the proposed Supplemental Article—
The Tribunal, of Arbitration; at Geneva—
Copy of the Johnson-Clarendon. Convention.

XVIII. Female Suffrage '....TO 8-181

Report of the Majority of the Committee ;of
Judiciary, by Mr. Bingham, and of the Mi-
nority, by Mr. Loughridge—Report of the
Judiciary Committee of the Senate, by Mr.
Carpenter—Votes in the Legislatures of Iowa,
Maine,'and Massachusetts-?-Action in Utah
and Wyoming.

XIX. Commoft-School Bill ...133-134:

Votes in House -on the bill to provide a
National Education Fund, and on Amend-
ments thereto.

XX. St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad
Bill. v .,.. 134-137

Votes in Senate on passing, and in House
on tabling, referring, amending,, and-finally
defeating.

XXI. Miscellaneous .....137-133

House bills to repeal the "Test-Oath," and
the Teuure-of'Otfice Acts—Vote in House
on bill to receive "legal tender" notes for
one third of the customs—Resolutions on the
treatment of Prisoners of War; the disposi-
tion of the Public Lands, the action of the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the Privileges
of the House—Vote in the Legislature of New
Xbrk in 1872 rescinding a resolution pur-
porting to withdraw a previous ratification
of the XVth Amendment—Action of the
Legislature of New Jersey in 1871 on the
XVth Amendment—Proposed change in
Constitution of Ohio in 1867, and vote of
the people on a Constitutional Convention—
Act to call a Constitutional Convention in
Pennsylvania—The first bill for the.recon-
struction of the insurrectionary States (in
Thirty-SeventlrCOngress)^-Elections of 1872
in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island—President Grant's Letter to Supple-
mentary Civil Rights Meeting in Washing-
ton City.

XXII. State Platforms of 1871 and 1873„

1871—Republican and Democratic : Illinois,
Iowa, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, (and "New Departure,") Pennsyl-
vania, Wisconsin; Republican: Califor-
nia, Maryland, Massachusetts," Michigan,
New Hampshire, Virginia; Democratic;
Texas..... 133-148

1873—Republican, Democratic, and Liberal
Republican: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mis-
souri, New Jersey; Republican, Democratic,
and Labor Reform: Alabama, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania; Republican and Democratic:
r| Arkansas,'(2 wings ^Republican,) California,
Georgia," Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mich-
igan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York,
(and Colored People's,) North Carolina,
Ohio, (and Prohibition,) Oregon. South Caro-
lina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia,
WestVtrginia,Wisconsin ; Republican: Dela-
ware, Florida, Louisiana, (2 wings, and Re-
form,) Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Washington 14:8-181

XXIII;; Statistical'' Tables........... 183-303

A*-Population and ■• Elections toy

States ...TS3

Popular and Electoral Vote of 1868 by
States—State Elections of 1870 and 1871—
Apportionment andr Electoral College under
Censuses of I860 and 1870—Population, by
, States, under Censuses of 1860and 1870.

B. Wealth, Local Debts aad Taxa-
tion , ........183

True Value of Real and Personal Estate, by
States, under Censuses of 1850,1860, and 1870—
State, County, Town, and City Taxation,
under Censuses of 1860 and 1870—3tate,
County, Town, and City Debt under Census
of 1870.

C. Agricultural Statistics.. 184

Value of Farms and Farm Products in Uni-
ted States and Territories, under Censuses of
1850,1860, and 1870.

D. Manufactures .,'191

Statement showing the total value ;of manu-
factures at the censuses of 1850,1860, and 1370.

E. Public Lands 185.-186

Statement showing the total of the Public
Lands of the United States; the quantity sold;
entered under homestead laws; granted for
military services, agricultural colleger, rail-
roads, canals, schools, universities, and all
other purposes. The total amount disposed
of, and the number of acres unappropriated,
contained in the various States and Terri-
tories.

P. Putolic Debt 184:

Statement showing the principal of the
Public Debt for each year, from 1857 to 1872.
inclusive, with a summary of the amount of
the debt at the close of each Administration,
from Washington to this date.

G-. Estimate of annual reduction of-Tax-

• ation under acts of 1866, 1867, 1863,
T870, and ISlJi, in Internal He venue
and Customs.,..,... I&5

H. Tatmlar statements showing the rate
of duty on eaoharticlo uwdei: the .Tai iff
acts; of 1870 and 1813, the Free 1,1st
under aflts of 1873^ and the clia «ges -tin
tiie Internal Revenue Taxation under
tne same acts ;.vi9!3-£03

I. "Votes on G-eiieraX Tariff Ac -s from
18*3 to 1870 .186

Statement showingthe votes by States, in
House of Representatives, for the tariff acts
of 1842; 1840, 1857,1861, 1862,. 1864, 1865, 1866,
and 1870.
«J. The Electoral .College,, distributed ?>y
States and sect a oris, txa established toy
the Censuses of 1*30 O and 18*0... 185

HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS

FOR 1872.

MEMBERS OF EORTY-EIRST CONGRESS.

Third Session, December 5,1870—March 3,1871. 1 Louisiana—John S. Harris, William P. Kel