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status of, in December, 1868, 237; congressmen excluded from House, 239; state supreme court decides negroes eligible to legislature, 241; General Terry on outrages in, 242; act to promote reconstruction of, 242; proceedings under the act, 244; final restoration of, 246; not equal with other original states, 350; lost by Republicans, 356.

Gillem, Major-General, commander in fourth district, 169; vetoes convention's tax ordinance in Mississippi, 174; conduct of election in Arkansas, 205, 211.

Grant, general of the army, powers under the Reconstruction Acts, 125; attitude on Congressional policy, 145; on Sickles' policy, 167; elected President, 226; policy as to unreconstructed states, 231; in restoration of Virginia, 233; recommends additional legislation as to Georgia, 242; appointed secretary of war and interim, 263; controversy with Johnson, 265; suppresses Ku Klux in South Carolina, 359; refuses troops to Mississippi, 361.

Habeas corpus, suspended between Philadelphia and Washington, 19; suspended in connection with draft, 39; interpretation of Constitution on, 41; act of 1863 touching, 42; general suspension of, 43; extension of jurisdiction of Supreme Court as to, 137; suspension of, authorized by Ku Klux Act, 359.

Hancock, Major-General, commander in fifth district, 160; policy of, 161; on relief of debtors, 169.

Hayes, President R. B.: abandons radicals in South, 363; strife with Congress over Federal Elections Laws, 364.

Hoar, Attorney-General, opinion on test oath, 233.

Howard, General, on administration of justice in South in 1866, 140.

Humphreys, governor of Mississippi, removed, 156.

Hunter, General, 49.

Illinois, admission of, 314; not equal with original states, 350.

Impeachable offences, what constitute, 258, 275, 278, 283.

Impeachment of President Johnson, moved, 255; reported against, 256, 257; voted down, 260; second attempt at, 265; voted by House, 270; trial begins, 271; the charges, 272; Johnson's answer, 276; decision of Senate that it was a court, 283; decision as to impeachable offences, 283; the issue as to power of removal, 284; as to President's right to violate law, 288; as to construction of proviso touching cabinet officers, 293; as to ad interim appointment of Thomas, 297; end of trial, 299; votes on articles, 300-301 ; judgment on, 302.

Indiana, admission of, 314; not equal with original states, 350.

Intimidation, methods of in South, 361; Southern confession of, 378.

Iowa, admission of, 316; not equal with original states, 350.

Iron-clad oath, required of appointees under military government, 154; of jurors in Texas, 160; of members of registration boards, 184; of officers in Virginia, 197; question as to, in