744 H. OF R.] ABRIDGMENT OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. Adjournment. [MARCH, 1803. States, who, in carrying on a lawful trade to | (of Virginia,) Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, foreign parts, have suffered losses by the seizure Joseph Stanton, John Stewart, John Taliaferro, jr., of their property, made by unauthorized French David Thomas, Philip R. Thompson, Abram Trigg, cruisers, or by any French cruiser, without suf- John Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Joseph B. Varficient cause," to which Committee of the whole num, Isaac Van Horne, Robert Williams, Robert House was also referred, on the second instant, Williams, Richard Winn, and Thomas Wynns. the report of a select committee, made the twenty-second of April last, on "the memorials and petitions of sundry citizens of the United States, and resident merchants therein, praying relief, in the case of depredations committed on their vessels and cargoes, while in pursuit of lawful commerce, by the cruisers of the French Republic, during the late European war: It passed in the negative-yeas 21, nays 48, as follows: YEAS.-John Bacon, James A. Bayard, John Campbell, Samuel W. Dana, William Eustis, Calvin Goddard, Roger Griswold, Seth Hastings, William H. Hill, Benjamin Huger, Samuel Hunt, Samuel L. Mitchill, Thomas Morris, Thomas Plater, Nathan Read, John Cotton Smith, Samuel Tenney, Samuel Thatcher, George B. Upham, Peleg Wadsworth, and Lemuel Williams. THURSDAY, March 3. On a motion made and seconded, "That the thanks of this House be presented to NATHANIEL MACON, the Speaker, in testimony of their approbation for his conduct in discharging the arduous and important duties assigned him, while in the chair: It was unanimously resolved in the affirmative, by yeas and nays, every member present Voting in the affirmative. Whereupon, Mr. SPEAKER made his acknow ledginents to the House, in manner following: "Gentlemen: Accept my sincere thanks for the vote which you have been pleased to pass, expressive of your approbation of my conduct in the chair; they are also due to each of you, for the liberal support which I have uniformly received. "Permit me to wish you a safe return home and happy meeting with your friends." NAYS.-Willis Alston, John Archer, Theodorus Bailey, Phanuel Bishop, Richard Brent, Robert Brown, William Butler, Samuel J. Cabell, Thomas Claiborne, John Clopton, John Condit, William Dickson, Peter Early, Lucas Elmendorph, Ebenezer Elmer, Andrew Gregg, Daniel Heister, Joseph Heis-House that the Senate having completed the A message from the Senate informed the ter, William Helms, William Hoge, James Holland, Legislative business before them, are now ready George Jackson, Michael Leib, David Meriwether, Thomas Moore, James Mott, Anthony New, Thomas to adjourn. Newton, jr., John Randolph, jr., John Smilie, Israel Smith, John Smith, (of New York,) John Smith, Whereupon, Mr. SPEAKER adjourned the House, sine die. INDEX TO VOL. II. Accommodation of the President, see Appropriations. ADAMS, JOHN, Vice President, attends Senate, 3; declares result of election of President to Senate, 6; gives notice to the Senate of time he will take the oath, 6; valedictory to the Senate, 8; reply to answer of the Senate to his valedictory address as Vice President, 9; his inaugural address, 11; presides in joint meeting of Senate and House, to count the votes for President, 62; remarks on mode of proceeding, 62; his method of counting the votes, 62; votes given to, for President in 1796, 62; declaration to the two Houses of the votes for President in 1796, 63; notifies Congress of the time he will take the oath as President, 66; President of United States, 118; reply to answer of Senate to President's message, 119; his proclamation calling extra session of Congress, 120; reply to answer of House to President's message, 143; reply to answer of Senate to message, 170; reply to answer of House to President's message, 182; reply to answer of House to President's message, 830; message to House announcing death of Washington, 484; vote for, as President, 487; reply to address of Senate, 484; reply to answer of Senate to President's message, 328; reply to answer of Senate to message, 402; reply to address of Senate on death of Washington, 403; answer to address of House, 432; letter to Senate on public property in his hands, 487; reply to answer of House to message, 500; his administration, note, 589. See Message. See Index, vol. 1. ADAMS, SAMUEL, vote for, as President in 1796, 63. Congress, 4; in answer to message 1st session, fifth Con- Answer of House to Message, 2d session, 4th Congress, considered, 17; motion to lay over, 17; unusual if not unprecedented motion, 17; improper to go into the subject before members had time to reflect on it, 17; the more expeditious, the greater will the effect be, 17; a subject of extensive consequence, 18; too important to be hastened, 18; no precedent for delay, 18; only two subjects on which there can be a difference of opinion, 18; a delay would have a very unpleasant appearance, 18; many bad consequences may attend hastening the subject, 18; are we always to act by precedent? 18; motion to postpone lost, 19; verbal amendments proposed, 22; debate on, 22; parts expressive of wisdom and firmness in the Administration objected to, 23; has been a want of firmness for the last six years, 23; this want has brought the country to its present alarming condition, 23; no reason to exult in the view of our foreign relations, 23; our internal situation no ground for admi ration, 28; the government can go on very well after the President retires, 28; no uncomfortable sensations felt at his retirement, 23; wisdom and firmness not doubted, 24; further debate, 24, 25, 26, 27; no inconvenience from voting the address, 23; shall one slip, one criminal slip rob the President of his good name? 28; duty of the House to do that patriot all the honor they could, 28; United States do not enjoy "tranquil prosperity," 29; we are not the proper organs to declare the people free and enlightened, 29; condition of Europe, 30; further debate, 81, 82; address adopted, 33. Answer of House to President's Message, 1st session, 5th Congress, debate on, 124; sections proposed to be inserted, 124; the answer is predicated upon the principle of approving all the measures of the Executive with respect to France, whilst the amendment avoids giving that approbation, 124; which of the two grounds would the House take, was the question, 124; the present a most important crisis, 125; statement of the case, 125; the rights of France relative to the three principal subjects which are causes of complaint between the two countries, 126; arguments of our ministers recapitulated, 126; free ships make free goods, 126; contraband articles, 126; carrying provision, 126; if these amendments are agreed to, fresh insults and aggressions must be expected, 127; was the conduct of France justifiable in rejecting our minister? 127; complaints of France, 127; examined, 127, 128; France considers our government and people divided, 129; address objectionable in approving the course pursued in conducting our foreign relations and in expressions of resentment and indignation towards France, 180; conduct of France considered, 180; federalism and anti-federalism, 180; amendment scrutinized, 181; all the steps taken by the Executive had a view to an eventual appeal to arms, 181; shall the Executive be approved, or France put on the same ground as other belligerents, 131; any answer to message objectionable, 132; further debate, 188; facts disclosed by the message, 184; the answer of the committee seems to express indignity on account of injuries received from France, and a determination to repel them the amendment is in a conciliatory tone and recommends that negotiations be begun as with other belligerents, 185; arguments in favor of each considered, 135, 186; course of the debate, 186; view of the question, 187; from what line of conduct are we to expect the most beneficent issue, 137; the amount of the question is whether we shall place all nations on a level as to commerce, and remove inequalities existing between them, 188; a view of facts, 188, 189; other amendments proposed, 189; shall any notice be taken of the speech of Barras? 140; it is an indignity, 140, 141; amendments carried, 142; moved that such members as do not choose need not attend at the presentation of the answer, 142; all now obliged to attend unless sick or leave of absence obtained, 142; the mover excused unanimously, if it would not comport with his dignity to attend, 142. Answer to President's Message, 2d session, 5th Congress; verbal amendments proposed and adopted, 181; an excuse from attending the ceremony asked, 182; the House will not compel the members to go about parading the streets of Philadelphia, 182; none of the members particularly anxious for the society of the member who asks to be excused, 182; no power in the House to compel any member to attend, 182; further discussion, 182; motion withdrawn, 182. Answer in House, 3d session, 5th Congress, 329; 1st session, 6th Congress, 481; 2d session, 6th Congress, 499. Address of House to President, see Index, vol. 1. Admirals in the Navy, bill for their appointment reported, 478; motion to postpone, 473; no necessity for the bill, 478; reasons for the appointment, 473; postponement lost, 474. African Slaves, memorial of Quakers on, presented in Senate, 170; ordered to be withdrawn, 171. See Index, vol. 1, African Slaves and Slavery and Slave trade. ALBERTSON, JOB, a manumitted slave, petition of, 57. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, petition of, 198. Algerine captives, ransom of, 95. See Algerine War, Index, vol. 1. Alien Enemies, bill relative to, 280; amended bill reported, 301; bill from House committee taken up, 305; motion to rise for purpose of postponement, 305; debate, 805; motion withdrawn, 305. Alien and Sedition laws, petitions for repeal of, 358, 364. Aliens.-See Naturalization Laws. ALLEN, JOHN, Representative from Connecticut, 135, 179, 831; on a naval armament, 154; offers resolution for additional duty on salt, 163; on relations with France, 240, 241; on the naturalization laws, 258, 259; on the sedition bill, 305; on the expulsion of Matthew Lyon, 369. ALSTON, WILLIS, Representative from North Carolina, 429, 497, 569, 693; against a mausoleum to Washington, 511; on the reading of the letter of James McHenry, 696. Amendment to Constitution, resolution relative to, 446. See Index, vol. 1. AMES, FISHER, Representative from Massachusetts, 14; on the address to the President, 17, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30; on bill to increase compensation of President and other officers, 61; on the accommodation of the President, 92; on naval appropriations, 101, 103. AMY DARDIN's claim, on a report to refuse the prayer of the petitioner the House voted in the negative, 85; the vote a precedent against the act of limitation, 85; an act of limitation should be considered only as a guard against fraud, 86; cause of the act of limitation, 86; any exception from the operation of the act should be in a general way, 86; statement of the case, 188; motion to report bill, 188; claim just but opposed to limitation act, 189; motion withdrawn, 189; motion to refer report on petition to Committee on Claims, 191; also moved to appoint a committee to report a bill, 191; also moved to refer to Committee on Claims, 191; referred to Committee of the Whole on excepting certain claims from operation of limitation act, 191; resolution to appoint a committee to bring in a bill for relief, 213; facts of the case, 213; it will throw open a door to every claim heretofore determined as barred, 213; setting aside limitation acts in most objectionable way, 213; a hard case, 218; it will not authorize the treasury to settle any claim, 218; acts of limitation liable to strong objections, 213; resolution lost, 213; Committee on Claims report against prayer of petitioner, 470; report adopted, 470; referred, 735. See Index, vol. 1. ANDERSON, JOSEPH, Senator from Tennessee, 165, 321, 399, 481, 540, 664; on the resolutions relative to the right of the United States to the free navigation of the Missis sippi, 685. Appropriation bill for 1797, amendments of Senate, 95; for 1798, 198. Appropriations to purchase furniture for President's house; appropriation considered, 88; indirect way of raising President's salary, 88; what has been done in former years, 88; if it was an increase of salary the President could dispose of the money as he pleased, but the furniture proposed for purchase remains the property of the United States, 89; motion to strike out $14,000 and insert $8,000-no reason for furnishing the house of the President more than that of any other officer, 59; the thing wrong, a larger salary should be given, 89; the situation of the President should be comfortable and respectable, 90; further debate on the amount of the appropriation, 90, 91, 92. Military.-The hospital department considered, 93; $30,000 moved, 93; unnecessary to appropriate so much, 93; $10,000 enough, 93; $10,000 adopted, 93; Quartermaster's Department, &c., considered, 93; necessary to allow a certain discretion to the Secretary with regard to specific sums, 93; appropriations of previous years, 3; appropriations for repairing certain posts on lakes should be rejected, as it will become a yearly expense, 94; state of those works not known, 94; appropriation for West Point, debated, 94, 95; items agreed to, 97; motion to insert an item for the purchase of horses and equipment of cavalry, 97; debate, 98, 99. See Defensive Measures Question of filling blanks, considered, 252; accounts of War Department obscure, 252; various items examined, 252; $150,000 adopted for Quartermaster's Department, 253. Naval.-Appropriation for finishing three frigates, considered, 76; so far as they go, three frigates give stability and protection to commerce, 76; will save more than five times their cost, 76; treaty or ships are the two things before us, 76; motion to connect a bill for manning and equipping, 77; this form of tacking very improper, 77; constitutionality of the appropriation, 78; question on the connection of the two bills, 78; question of tacking the two bills carried, 78; appropri ation resolved, 79. Pay and subsistence of three naval captains, considered, 95; $4,200 the estimate-$5,000 appropriated, 95. Moved to appropriate $175,000 for finishing three frigates, 99; smaller sum sufficient to secure them from injury, as it was the intention not to fit them for ses and save expense of manning them, 99; no prospect of manning them at present high rate of wages, 99; all appropriations are now specific and particular, 100; this sum is for finishing only, 100; if the frigates are not to be used, they should be sold at once, 100; many members intend to keep the frigates in such a state as to prevent their being manned, 100; a question whether we shall have a navy or not involved in this discussion, 100; Presidential discretion as proved by the past, 100; if this money is voted the frigates will get to sea under some pretext, 100; if the frigates are not finished the money expended will be lost, 101; if they are finished members fear they will be manned, 101; members who oppose finishing the frigates, think this country will never be a naval power, 101; its necessity will soon appear, 101; our commerce is now only less than that of Great Britain, 101; last year it was voted to finish the frigates how can the House withhold the appropri ation? 101; if this body is a Legislature, how can its control over the public purse be denied? 102; further debated, 103; question carried, 104, 105. Specific Appropriations.-Moved to add to the bill Resolution for a committee of inquiry relative to ex- ARCHER, JOHN, Representative from Maryland, 569, 694. Augmentation of Army bill, details of, 358; second Reduction of Army, remarks on, 578. Peare Establishment, bill to fix, considered, 585; va- Aurora newspaper, investigation in Senate relative to, 40. B BACON, JOHN, Representative from Massachusetts, 569, 693; tive to cession of Louisiana, 704; on compensation to the BAER, GEORGE, jr., Representative from Maryland, 120, 179, BAILEY, THEODORUS, Representative from New York, 14, BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, Representative from Georgia, 14, 121, Bankrupt Act, should not be amended but repealed, 724; Barbary Powers, resolution authorizing the President fur- BARRAS, President of French Directory, his speech to the BARTLETT, BAILEY, Representative from Massachusetts, 180, BAYARD, JAMES A., Representative from Delaware, 123, 179, BECKLEY, JOHN, chosen Clerk of House, 569, BINGHAM, WILLIAM, Senator from Pennsylvania, 8, 114, 165, BIRD, JOHN, Representative from New York, 429, 500; against BISHOP, PHANUEL, Representative of Massachusetts, 429, 498, BLODGET, SAMUEL, Memorial relative to a National Univer- BLOODWORTH, TIMOTHY, Senator from N. Carolina, 144, 165, 120, 180, 826; on the petition of manumitted slaves, 58, BLOUNT, WILLIAM, Senator from Tennessee, 8, 114; to pro- BRADFORD, WILLIAM, Senator from Rhode Island, 8, 113; Breach of Privilege.-Case of Matthew Lyon, 205; case stated, 205; resolution of expulsion referred, 206; letter Resolution in the Senate relative to publications in a BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN, Senator from Kentucky, 540, 661; BRENT, RICHARD, Representative from Virginia, 14, 121, 179, BROOKS, DAVID, Representative from New York, 120, 180, BROWN, JOHN, Senator from Kentucky, 5, 117, 171, 393, 999, BROWN, JOHN, Representative from Rhode Island, 429, 505; BROWN, ROBERT, Representative from Pennsylvania, 826, BRYAN, NATHAN, Representative from North Carolina, 111, BULLOCK, STEPHEN, Representative from Massachusetts, 148, BURGESS, DEMPSEY, Representative from North Carolina, BURR, AARON, Senator from New York, 8; vote for, as Presi BUTLER, WILLIAM, Representative from North Carolina, CABELL, SAMUEL J., Representative from Virginia, 120, CANTRILL, STEPHEN, petition of, 242. 505. Census of the Union.-See Index, vol. 1. Island, 120, 179, 329, 429; moves vote of thanks, 388; in Charitable objects, appropriations by Congress for, see In- CHAPMAN, JOHN, Representative from Pennsylvania, 120, CHAPMAN, NATHANIEL, Senator from Vermont, $21, 402, Chickasaw Claims, petition relative to, 49. |