Committee of the Senate on the Rebellious States, 15 Congress of the United States, power vested in, 3; action on State perdurance, 5; power over territories, 6; relation of its acts to Reconstruction, 12; legislation on Reconstruction, 15; action as to electoral vote of 1864, 21, 22; twenty-second joint rule, 24, 25; attitude to Tennessee, 26; meeting of December, 1865, 40; Johnson's views of powers of, 41; demand of southerners for seats, 56; joint committee on reconstruction, 57, 58; passes Freedmen's Bureau bill, 66; passes civil rights bill, 70, 73; the fourteenth amendment, 74-79; proposal of committee on reconstruction, 80; reports to, on reconstruction, 84-86; passage of Freedmen's Bureau bill, 87-90; relation to campaign of 1866, 98; attacked by Johnson, 102; effect of election of 1866, 104; effect of Johnson's message on, 105; passes bill for negro suffrage in District of Columbia, 107, 108; bill vetoed, 107, 108; bill passed over veto, 109; vetoes sent to, 126; encroachment on President's power, 128; passes supplemental reconstruction bill, 129; opening of fortieth Congress, 132; passes bill interpreting Reconstruction Acts, 140; passes bill over veto, 142; as to powers of, 147; attitude of southern whites to acts of, 149; additional bill as to reconstructed States, 152, 153; comment on the act, 154; message to, of December, 1867, 158-160; admission of Southern members, 198, 202; action on proclamation of fourteenth amendment, 204; friction with Johnson, 214; annual message to, 214; action on fifteenth amendment, 217; question as to southern members, 223, 225; admits members from Virginia, 228; passes modification of Tenure-of-Office Act, 234; readmission of Georgia, 235-244; attitude to the South, 248; bill to enforce the amendments, 253-255; control of elections to, 256; statute on the Ku-Klux, 257, 258; legislation on finance, 276-279; electoral count of 1877, 283, 284; bill for electoral commission, 284, 285; action as to Santo Domingo, 326. _See_ House of Representatives; Senate; Statutes of the United States Conkling, Roscoe, on joint committee on reconstruction, 57; in convention of 1876, 281 Connecticut ratifies fourteenth amendment, 203, 204