CHAPTER III. ATTITUDE OF CONGRESS TOWARDS THE EXPERIMENT:

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL THEORY.

1. Attitude of Parties towards the Administration at Beginning of the Session 49

2. Opening Scenes in Congress 50

3. The Annual Message: Debate on Reconstruction 55

4. The Freedmen's Bureau 59

5. Johnson's Indiscreet Speeches in February, 1866 65

6. Civil Rights; Other Bills 68

7. Report of Committee on Reconstruction 73

8. Authorized Measures of First Session 80