71, 146. Achievements of 37th, IX. 144, 205. Protests against final adjournments of, IX. 176; XI. 405; XIV. 348; XV. 172, 240. Chancellor Kent on executive power of, X. 174; XI. 372. Supremacy of, over States, X. 185-190. Exclusion of colored testimony recognized by, XI. 3. Its powers over slavery, XI. 190-195, 209; XII. 62-65. Must determine readmission of rebel States, XI. 296, 361, 366-372. Summer sessions of, XI. 405 _et seq._ Can ratify executive acts, XII. 71; judicial decision proving same, XII. 71. Judicial decisions on its power to regulate commerce between States, XII. 113-117; XIV. 69. Story on its power to establish post-roads, XII. 117, 120. Power and duty of, to grant equal rights to colored persons, XIII. 124-127, 211-219, 324-337; XIV. 210, 215-218; XVI. 1, 61, 252; XVII. 34; XIX. 126-130, 232-234, 266, 272-284, 286. Authorities respecting powers of, under the Constitution, XIII. 216, 273, 278; XVIII. 29; XIX. 277. Power of, to counteract the cattle-plague, XIV. 49; to provide against cholera from abroad, XIV. 59; and to make a ship-canal at Niagara, XIV. 99. The one-man power _vs._, XIV. 181. Power of, to require free schools in rebel States, XIV. 340. Powers of the two Houses of, in absence of a quorum, XV. 185. President Johnson’s defiance of, XVI. 171. Power of, to require conditions for admission of States, XVI. 235, 244; XVIII. 3-5,--objections to same refuted, XVI. 236-252. Eligibility of colored citizens to, XVI. 255. Judicial decisions on political powers of, XVI. 346. Its treatment of claims for losses by Revolutionary War and War of 1812, XVII. 25-28. Powers of, to prohibit inequality, caste, and oligarchy of the skin, XVII. 34. Admission of Virginia to representation in, XVII. 204. Power and duty of, to protect Reconstruction, XVII. 208; XVIII. 26-32. Not pledged by Reconstruction Acts to admit rebel States, XVII. 208-210, 224-226. Power of, over national banks, XVII. 293-296. Admission of Mississippi to representation in, XVIII. 1; and of Georgia, XVIII. 23. Congress, Continental, on object of the Revolution, III. 281; VI. 226; XIII. 174; XVI. 31. New governments arranged by, X. 204. Testimony of, to rights of colored persons, XII. 148; XIII. 189. Resolutions and addresses of, quoted, XIII. 170. Debate in, on fisheries, XV. 162 _et seq._ Meeting of the, XVI. 26.