Part 321

BOUDINOT, ELIAS, Representative from New Jersey, 21, 175, 255, 315, 388, 455, 527; informs the Senate of the readiness of the House to meet them and count the electoral votes, 10; urges scale of duties on imports proposed by Congress in 1783, 23; engages in the debate, 26; further speech, 27; on duty on distilled spirits, 28; do. on molasses, 28; on duty on Madeira wine, 32; on duty on hemp, 36; favors duty on teas, 42; reports on reception of President, 44; opposes high duties, 44; on the application to amend the constitution, 47; reviews objections to high and low duties in regard to collection, 63; on no limit to the impost bill, 78; further remarks, 83; moves organization of executive department, 85; further remarks, 85; on the power of the President to remove officers, 88; whether the treasury shall be composed of one or many officers, 93; on the duties of Secretary of the Treasury, 110; on providing house and furniture for the President, 117; further remarks, 119; on pay of Vice President, 122; presides in Committee of Whole, 126; on amount of pay of members, 132; further remarks, 133; presides in Committee of the Whole, 145; moves Potomac, Susquehanna, or Delaware, instead of east bank of Susquehanna for seat of Government, 162; on importance of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 182; on the assumption of the State debts, 194; further remarks, 197; on the constitutional right of an attempt to depress the slave trade, 203; remarks on the motion to discriminate among public creditors, 207; further remarks, 211; on Pennsylvania memorial, 235; moves to strike out "Potomac," and insert "Delaware" for seat of government, 249; offers resolution for a land office, 260, 261; on the commitment of the bill for a Bank of the United States, 274; speech on the bank, 287; on report of Secretary of War, 317; on the ratio of representation, 320; further remarks, 324: on the petition of Catherine Greene, 336; against attendance of Secretary of War, 391; on discharging committee on defeat of St. Clair, 394; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 430; on the pay of soldiers, 460; on the flag of the Union, 461; on the French emigrants from St. Domingo, 463; do. on the relief of do., 474; on the embargo, 480; on the legality of the sequestration of British debts, 484; on non-intercourse with Great Britain, 495; on admitting the delegate south of the Ohio, 529; further do., 531; on the coinage of cents, 546; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 547, 549; do. on the Pennsylvania insurgents, 552; on amending the naturalization laws, 555; on the requirements of titled foreigners for citizenship, 561; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 567; on the reduction of salaries, 572; on the right to Indian lands within a State, 578, 580.

BOURNE, SYLVANUS, appointed by the Senate to notify John Adams of his election as Vice-President, 10.

BOURNE, BENJAMIN, Representative from Rhode Island, 260, 315, 388, 457, 528; on amending the naturalization laws, 559; on post roads, 637; on a salary for members of Congress, 637; on the rights of the House relative to treaties, 666; on the military and naval appropriation, 764.

BOURNE, SHEARJASHUB, Representative from Massachusetts, 315, 388, 455, 528; on the Cod Fisheries, 363.

BRADBURY, THEOPHILUS, Representative from Massachusetts, 604.

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, Senator from Rhode Island, 445, 520, 591.

BRADLEY, STEPHEN R., Senator from Vermont, 313, 380, 444, 523.

BRENT.--On the rights of the House relative to treaties, 666.

Bribery.--Case of Robert Randall considered, 609; charges, 609, 610; arrest of Randall and Charles Whitney, 611; time given to prepare for defence, 611; debate thereon, 611; further statement of the case, 612; charges against Randall and against Whitney, 613; petition of Randall for counsel considered, 614; report on further proceedings, 614; considered, 615; information against accused, 617; counsel of Randall, 618; examination of members, 619, 620; resolutions on the case, 621, 622; case of Whitney, 622; debate thereon, 623; Whitney discharged, 624.

BROWN, JOHN, Representative from Virginia, 175, 255, 315; on Quaker memorial, 229.

BROWN, JOHN, Senator from Kentucky, 380, 444, 520, 591.

BRYAN, NATHAN, Representative from North Carolina, 604.

BUCK, DANIEL, Representative from Vermont, 606.

BURKE, EDANUS, Representative from South Carolina, 27, 175, 255; on low price of staples in South Carolina, 37; opposes duty on salt, 38; on tonnage duties, 50; favors effective tonnage duties, 54; opposes any title for President, 66; urges low salaries in consequence of embarrassed finances, 122; brings in a bill for compensation of members and officers, 129; on the right of instructions, 144; on the admission of foreigners, 188; one year too short a term for naturalization, 189, 190; opposes the commitment of the Quaker memorial, 202; Pennsylvania memorial unconstitutional, 208; further remarks, 229; on memorial of officers of navy, 240; on a seat of Government, 243; further remarks, 246; on vacancy in the Presidency, 270.

BURGES, DEMPSEY, Representative from North Carolina, 604.

BURR, AARON, Senator from New York, 309, 441, 520, 591; vote for, as Vice-President in 1793, 386; on resolutions relative to presentation of French flag, 601.

BUTLER, PIERCE, Senator from South Carolina, 15, 168, 251, 309, 380, 442, 591; on answer to the President's speech, 594; on consideration of resolution relative to presentation of French flag, 598; on resolution relative to presentation of French flag, 599.

CABELL, SAMUEL J., Representative from Virginia, 604.

CABOT, GEORGE, Senator from Massachusetts, 309, 380, 441, 520, 591.

CADWALADER, LAMBERT, Representative from New Jersey, 22, 175, 255, 455, 528; on a committee to report a bill regulating oaths, 22.

Candles, Tallow, duty on proposed, 34; adopted, 35.

CARNES, THOMAS P., Representative from Georgia, 455, 527; on continental troops on frontiers, 518; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 550; on the right to Indian lands within a State, 579; on intruders on Indian lands, 587; offers amendment to resolution relative to intruders on Indian lands, 589.

CARROLL, CHARLES, Senator from Maryland, 10, 254, 303; added to Judiciary Committee, 10; on committee to prepare an answer to Washington's inaugural, 12; reports on President's Message relative to the ratification of certain treaties, 20; urges decision relative to duty on molasses, 70, 71; on the amendment to the constitution relative to freedom of conscience, 137; on Fort Cumberland as a seat of Government, 159; further remarks, 160, 164; on vacancy in the Presidency, 269.

CARROLL, DANIEL, Representative from Maryland, 22, 175.

Census of the Union, debate on, 181; in order to know the various interests of the United States, the description of the several classes into which the community was divided should be accurately known, 181; census should comprise more than a mere enumeration of the inhabitants, 181; the progress of each interest thus shown, 181; motion that the marshal receive of every white male inhabitant over twenty-one years of age five cents, and for every male slave of like age three cents, as his compensation, 182; an equitable tax, 182; motion lost, 182; bill read a third time, 184.

Charitable objects, appropriations by Congress for, see French Refugees, 462.

Chaplains, manner of electing, Senate committee on, 10; resolution of the House on, 168.

CHRISTIE, GABRIEL, Representative from Maryland, 437, 527, 604; on the President's Speech, 537; on the Randall bribery case, 610.