A

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, 113;
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, 330;
message to House announcing death of Washington, 434;
vote for, as President, 487;
reply to address of Senate, 484;
reply to answer of Senate to President's message, 323;
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, 539.
See Message.
See Index, vol. 1.

Adams, Samuel, vote for, as President in 1796, 63.

Address in Senate, in answer to message at 2d session, 4th Congress, 4;
in answer to message 1st session, fifth Congress, 117;
2d session, 5th Congress, 169;
3d session, 5th Congress, 322;
1st session, 6th Congress, 402;
2d session, 6th Congress, 483;
of Senate to President on death of Washington, 403.

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 admiration, 23;
the government can go on very well after the President retires, 23;
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, 28;
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, 31, 32;
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, 130;
conduct of France considered, 130;
federalism and anti-federalism, 130;
amendment scrutinized, 131;
all the steps taken by the Executive had a view to an eventual appeal to arms, 131;
shall the Executive be approved, or France put on the same ground as other belligerents, 131;
any answer to message objectionable, 132;
further debate, 133;
facts disclosed by the message, 134;
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, 135;
arguments in favor of each considered, 135, 136;
course of the debate, 136;
view of the question, 137;
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, 138;
a view of facts, 138, 139;
other amendments proposed, 139;
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, 431;
2d session, 6th Congress, 499.

Address of House to President, see Index, vol. 1.

Admirals in the Navy, bill for their appointment reported, 473;
motion to postpone, 473;
no necessity for the bill, 473;
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, 305;
motion withdrawn, 305.

Alien and Sedition laws, petitions for repeal of, 358, 364.

Aliens.—See Naturalization Laws.

Allen, John, Representative from Connecticut, 135, 179, 331;
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, 218;
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, 213;
it will not authorize the treasury to settle any claim, 213;
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 Mississippi, 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, 89;
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, 93;
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;
appropriation 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 sea 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 appropriation?, 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 the words, "which several sums shall be solely applied to the objects for which they are appropriated," 104;
appropriations for some objects might fall short and others overrun, 104;
this surplus should be used for deficiencies, 104;
the military appropriation regarded as an aggregate for all the objects of the establishment, 104;
theory good but the practice may be bad, 104;
the practice of the Secretary, 105;
motion carried, 105;
bill returned to the House from the Senate with an amendment to remove the restriction to confine the expenditure to the specific objects for which each sum is appropriated, 106;
not according to law as required by the constitution to appropriate money for one object and expend it for another, 106;
the House has a constitutional power to depart from identifying articles to the sums appropriated, 106;
the mode of the Senate gives too unbounded power to the Executive, 106;
only four hours remain of the session—the bill may be lost, 106;
to allow the Executive this power is an infringement of the constitution, 107;
the amendment of the Senate lessens the privileges of the House, 107;
further debate, 107;
amendment lost, 107;
Senate recedes, 108;
a proposition for $197,000 to complete the frigates, 153;
only two arguments in favor of the bill, viz. to lay the foundation for a navy, and the frigates being built, it is proper to man them, 153;
if navies are necessary to European nations they are not to us—as a view of our revenue and the expense of a fleet prove, 153;
revenue and expense examined, 153;
reasons for the extra expense, 154;
commerce will be carried on if we have no expensive naval force, 154;
a navy a great evil to this country, our interests lie in the soil, 154;
shall we at a time when we are threatened with danger abandon these frigates, 154;
further debate, 154;
bill passed, 155.

Resolution for a committee of inquiry relative to expenditure of naval appropriations, 195;
such a committee unusual, 195;
implies censure on public officers, 196;
no statements yet received, 196;
inquiry occasioned because a further appropriation called for, 196;
if money has been justly expended for the frigates little objection would arise to further appropriations, 196;
the expense has exceeded all belief, 196;
objections to the inquiry considered, 196;
reasons for the inquiry, 196;
such an inquiry always proper, 197;
if favorable, it will forward the design of creating a navy, 197;
different estimates which have been made to the House, 197;
further debate, 197.
See Defensive Measures. See Appropriations, Index, vol. 1.

Archer, John, Representative from Maryland, 569, 694.

Armed Vessels, instructions to, see Defensive Measures.

Army Establishment, bill to fix, returned with the President's veto, debated, 96.

Augmentation of Army bill, details of, 358;
second reading ordered, 358.

Reduction of Army, remarks on, 578.

Peace Establishment, bill to fix, considered, 585;
various amendments proposed, 585;
better than former bill, and saves expense, 585;
other considerations, 586.

Army, Provisional.—See Defensive Measures.

Army.—See Index, vol. 1.

Aurora newspaper, investigation in Senate relative to, 40.


B

Bacon, John, Representative from Massachusetts, 569, 693;
on the apportionment bill, 574;
relative to State balances, 595;
on Ohio State Government, 649;
on reading the letter of McHenry, 697;
on call for information relative to cession of Louisiana, 704;
on compensation to the ex-United States judges, 730;
on jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, 736.

Baer, George, jr., Representative from Maryland, 120, 179, 326, 429, 497.

Bailey, Theodorus, Representative from New York, 14, 429, 497, 569, 694.
See Index, vol. 1.

Baldwin, Abraham, Representative from Georgia, 14, 121, 179, 326;
on a national university, 35;
on relief to sufferers by fire at Savannah, 43;
on petition of Hugh L. White, 51;
on contingent expenses of Congress, 57;
on answer of House to President Adams' first message, 132;
on building frigates, 146;
on foreign intercourse, 202;
on the limits of Georgia, 220;
on relations with France, 225;
on the bill to raise a provisional army, 246;
on letters of marque, 299;
on the remonstrance of Georgia, 331;
on disputed Presidential elections, 406;
senator from Georgia, 399, 481, 540, 661;
elected President pro tem. of Senate, 541.
See Index, vol. 1.

Bank of the United States.—See Index, vol. 1.

Bankruptcy, bill to establish uniform system of, passed House, 536.

Bankrupt Act, should not be amended but repealed, 724;
ex post facto law, 724;
some objectionable features should be amended, 724;
never should have been such a law, 724;
other considerations in favor of amendment, 724;