Columbus, Christopher, influence of reading of travels on, I. his birth, early life, and marriage, I. his studies, I. his theory of reaching Asia by sailing west, I. his appeals for aid, I. lays his project before Ferdinand and Isabella, I. his contract with Isabella, I. sails from Palos, I. his voyage, I. discovers America, I. later voyages and discoveries, I. superseded by Bobadilla, I. his illusions concerning America, I. his death, I. Comer, Rev. John, I. Commerce and Labor, Department of, created, VI. attitude of, toward Chinese immigration, VI. Commerce Commission, Interstate, VI. Commission of 1664, I. Concord, fight at, II. Emerson's lines on, II. Cone, Dr. Spencer H., III. Confederacy, its government organized, III. its constitution, III. its prospects, III. collapse of, IV. naval operations of the, IV. England sides with, IV. Napoleon III. aids, IV. finances of, IV. Confederation, the Articles of, II. bound the States together, II. faults of, II. advantages of, II. propositions to reform the, II. no fundamental law, II. Congregationalists nearly all Federalists, II. Congress, the first Continental, II. petition by, sent to England, II. adjourns to Baltimore, II. gives thanks for close of Revolutionary war, II. the Revolutionary, II. its powers, II. personnel of, II. thoroughness of first constitutional, II. censures Andrew Jackson, III. an extra session of, in panic of 1837, III. treatment of anti-slavery petitions by, III. inaction of, toward the South, III. and President Johnson, IV. takes measures to protect the negroes, IV. resolution declaring Cuba free, V. extra session, tariff, V. national defence fund voted, V. on occupancy of Cuba, V. government of Cuba, V. on Philippines, V. Filipinos, V. congressional apportionment, V. San Francisco relief fund voted, VI. increase of members of House of Representatives, VI. Progressives in, VI. Congress, the, burned, IV. Connecticut, settlement of, I. population of towns of, in 1643. I. and Charles II., I. liberal charter of, I. prosperity of, I. its boundary disputes, I. in fear of Dutch attacks, I. and Andros, I. valley of, invaded during King Philip's war, I. population of, in 1754, I. ratifies the Constitution, II. corporation laws, III. Conservation of nation's resources, White House conference on, VI. first national commission created, 134; North American Conservation Congress, 135. Constitution, the, James Madison the father of, II. rise of the new, II. completion and ratification of, II. signed, II. launching the, II. benefits from, II. popularity of, II. Federalists and anti-Federalists on interpretation of, II. XIIth amendment to, II. broad construction of, III. ambiguity of, on slavery, III. precludes possibility of secession, III. Constitutional Union party, III.