Journal of the House of Representatives of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House." |
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Abraham Venable according to order acquaint the Senate adjourned until to-morrow Alſo Benjamin Bourne Chauncey Goodrich Clerk Clerk's table Committee of Claims Committee of Commerce compenfation Congreſs day were further diſtrict eſtabliſhing Ezekiel Gilbert faid bill faid report firſt Francis Malbone Henry Glen Houſe adjourned Houſe and read Houſe do acquaint Houſe proceeded inrolled bills intituled John John Wilkes Kittera laſt Lemuel Benton memorials and petitions meſſage motion Muhlenberg reported names are thereunto Nathan Bryan neceſſary paſſed perſons petition be referred Philip Van Cortlandt praying preſented Preſident proviſion purpoſe queſtion read the ſecond read the third refumed the chair Repreſentatives reſolution Resolved reſpectively ſaid memorial ſaid petition ſame Samuel Samuel Maclay Senate therewith ſervices ſeſſion ſeveral orders ſhall ſigned ſolved itſelf ſome time ſpent Speaker refumed ſpent therein ſtate ſuch Theodorus Bailey Theophilus Bradbury thereunto ſubſcribed Thomas thousand ſeven hundred United veſſels whole Houſe whoſe names William Hindman
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Page 295 - Government, my constant endeavor to harmonize with the other branches thereof so far as the trust delegated to me by the people of the United States and my sense of the obligation it imposes to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution '
Page 32 - Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States...
Page 15 - ... the murdering of Indians can be restrained by bringing the murderers to condign punishment, all the exertions of the government to prevent destructive retaliations by the Indians will prove fruitless, and all our present agreeable prospects illusory.
Page 15 - Western borders so well authorizes, it is necessary that we should not lose sight of an important truth which continually receives new confirmations, namely, that the provisions heretofore made with a view to the protection of the Indians from the violences of the lawless part of our frontier inhabitants are insufficient. It is demonstrated that these violences can now be perpetrated with impunity...
Page 295 - The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution, and their success must often depend on secrecy ; and, even when brought to a conclusion, a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or eventual concessions, which may have been proposed or contemplated, would be extremely impolitic; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences, perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers.
Page 296 - It is thus that the treaty-making power has been understood by foreign nations, and in all the treaties made with them we have declared and they have believed that, when ratified by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, they became obligatory.
Page 13 - Our agriculture, commerce, and manufactures prosper beyond former example ; the molestations of our trade (to prevent a continuance of which, however, very pointed remonstrances have been made) being overbalanced by the aggregate benefits which it derives from a neutral position.
Page 295 - The necessity of such caution and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members.
Page 14 - ... principles of rational liberty, and with mild and wholesome laws, is it too much to say, that our country exhibits a spectacle of national happiness never surpassed, if ever before equalled...
Page 15 - Indians on reasonable terms, (a measure, the mention of which I the more readily repeat, as in all the conferences with them they urge it with solicitude,) I should not hesitate to entertain a strong hope of rendering our tranquillity permanent. I add, with pleasure, that the probability even of their civilization is not diminished by the experiments which have been thus far made, under the auspices of government. The accomplishment of this...