  - Abolitionist literature. See Incendiary publications.
- Adams, John Quincy, 78.
- Administrative determination to exclude mail matter, conclusiveness of, 57 ff.
- Advertisements of intoxicating liquors, 146 ff.
- Amendments to Constitution giving Congress power to construct roads, 73.
- Anarchistic publications and the postoffice, 118.
- Antecedents of the postal power, 9–26.
- Appropriations for national and local purposes, 79.
- Arbitration of industrial disputes, 151.
- Articles of Confederation, 72, 76, 81.
- Bache, Richard, 15.
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 28.
- Bank Note Case, 169.
- Bankruptcy laws, uniformity of, 114.
- Banks, power of Congress to charter, 80.
- Barbour, J.S., 74.
- Beck, J.M., 169 n.
- BilkÉ, H.W., 108.
- Blackstone’s Commentaries, 100, 101.
- Blair, Postmaster General, 51 n.
- Bonaparte, Charles J., 118 ff.
- “Bonus Bill” for road construction, 66.
- Brewer, Justice, 177.
- Buchanan, James, 110–112.
- Calhoun, J. C, 67 ff., 106 ff., 136 ff.
- Canals, power of Congress to cut, 25;
- to aid by appropriation, 72.
- Carter, James C., 148.
- Clapp, Moses E., 35.
- Classification of mail matter, 29–30.
- Clay, Henry, 71 ff., 110.
- Cockburn, Lord, 50.
- Codification of postal laws, 60.
- Collectivist activities of post office, 33–36.
- Commercial power of Congress, 155, 160.
- Committee of the States, 20.
- “Commodities clause,” 170.
- Confederation, Articles of, postal clause in, 16;
- inadequacy of the power vested in Congress by, 20–22.
- Congress, power to establish postoffices, 26 ff.;
- to secure the mails and punish improper use, 36 ff.;
- to establish postroads, 61 ff.;
- to own and operate railroads, 150;
- to own and operate telegraphs and telephones, 156;
- to extend control through exclusions from the mails, 158 ff.
- Constitution, grant of postal power by, 23.
- “Constitutional American Postoffice,” 13.
- Constitutional Convention and p
81, 136 n., 153, 154, 169 n., 177.
- Marshall, Louis, 172 n.
- Maryland, Sunday observance in, 131.
- Mercury (Charleston), 104.
- Money orders, 31.
- Monroe, James, 27, 69;
- “Views on Internal Improvements,” 74 ff.
- Moon, J.A., 32.
- Morris, Gouverneur, 24.
- Morris, Thomas, 112.
- Municipal streets and postroads, 150.
- Neale, Thomas, 12.
- Nelson, E.C., 65, 77 n.
- Newlands, Senator, 161 n.
- Newspaper Publicity Law, 121 ff., 164, 175.
- Northern Pacific Railroad, 91.
- “Nullification by Indirection,” 169 ff.
- Obscene literature, in mails, 48, 146, 174;
- definition of, 49;
- in interstate commerce, 170.
- Obstruction of the mail, 45 ff.;
- what constitutes, 135.
- Ohio, admission as state and Cumberland Road compact, 63.
- Oleomargarine in interstate commerce and state laws, 127;
- federal tax on manufacture of, 168.
- Ordinance of 1782, 17–20, 36.
- Original packages, 146.
- Panama Canal Act, 161.
- Parcels post, 30, 34.
- Paterson, William, 22.
- Paterson’s plan for Constitution, 41.
- Penn, William, 12.
- Penrose, Boies, 51 n.
- Pinckney, C.C., 98.
- Pinckney’s plan, 22, 98.
- Police regulations by Congress concerning postoffice, 52.
- Postal clause, in Articles of Confederation, 16;
- discussion of, by constitutional convention, 22;
- in Constitution, 23;
- poor expression of, 25.
- Postal crimes, severely punished, 37;
- obstructing the mail, 37;
- private competition, 37;
- robbing the mail, 38;
- meticulous enumeration in federal criminal code, Wilson Act, 127 n.
- Wise, Governor, 142.
- Working on Sunday, state laws to punish, 130.
- Young, J.S., 62 n., 77 n.
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