Part 323

Compensation of the President, &c.--Report of a committee on the compensation of President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives considered, 116; in what style is the President expected to live? 116; is five thousand dollars in proportion to the services of the Vice President? 116; members should know the rate at which they are paid in order to regulate their expenses, 116; the pay of the President should be granted as one sum, 117; under the constitution, he can receive no other emolument, 117; the provision in the report for paying the expenses of enumerated articles, house, furniture, clerks, horses, does not leave the President in the situation contemplated by the constitution, 117; furniture and plate should always be provided by Government, 117; report perfectly constitutional; if one thing can be allowed, another can be, 117; the constitution intends nothing but a fixed compensation for his services, 117; compensation should be according to services, and the President allowed to live as he pleased, 118; there should be proper dignity attached to the office, 118; motion to strike out enumerated articles, horses, &c., carried, 118; motion to strike out twenty and insert thirty thousand dollars, 118; do. divided, first carried, 118; various sums proposed, 119; if we knew the style in which the President should live, amount of pay would be easy to determine, 119; experiment only can tell, 119; $25,000 sufficient to test it, 119; various sums farther considered, 120; $25,000 adopted, 120.

Compensation of Vice President considered, 120; $5,000 per annum in quarterly payments reported, 120; nothing in the constitution gives him a right to a salary, 120; moved to strike out $5,000 in order to allow salary when he acts as President, and daily pay for services in the Senate, 120; $5,000 is out of proportion to $25,000, 120; it should be a perpetual salary as he is expected to remain at the seat of Government, and be ready in case of death of the President, 120; a compensation is to be made only for services rendered, 120; Lieutenant Governors of States, 120; services required of Vice President, 121; advantages of the position, 121; constitution silent on the subject, 121; therefore left to the Legislature to determine, 121; pay according to services does not hold good in Executive and Judiciary Departments, 121; the post not a sinecure, 121; no more entitled to an allowance than the other members of the Legislature are, 122; shall the Vice President receive a per diem or an annual salary? the constitution should serve as the ground by which to determine, 122; all motions lost and original proposition agreed to, 123.

Pay of Senators and Representatives considered, 123; six dollars per day and for every twenty miles proposed, 123; six per day for Senators and five for Representatives moved, 123; a distinction made in the constitution, 123; discrimination opposed, 123; discrimination urged on the ground of different qualifications and mode of election, 123; difference not perceived in the constitution, 124; discrimination evidently contemplated in the constitution, 124; unless adopted, proper Senators may not be obtained, 124; no difference in Legislative concerns, 124; arguments in favor of discrimination considered, 124; do. 125; distinction marked in many points, 125; a discrimination may eventually be a public injury, 126; a measure injurious to the Government, 126; motion lost, 126; bill for compensation, &c., 129; moved to strike out six dollars as pay of members, 129; objects of the mover, 130; six dollars too high, 130; present course is contrary to all Parliamentary proceeding, 130; motion to strike out lost, 131; bill reported to the House, and moved to strike out six dollars, and insert five, 131; six too high, 131; consider the principles upon which the President, Judges and members are to be paid, 131; necessary to secure an independent Legislature, 132; five high enough, 132; insinuations of improper and unworthy motives in the movers, 133; motion lost, 133.

Annual salary proposed of $1,000 for members of the House, 635; present mode good--no alteration necessary, 635; members be induced to greater despatch in business, 635; public think the session unreasonably protracted, 635; annual salary causes neglect of business, 635; a salary, a bounty to neglect business, 635; a measure affords no advantage, 636; many suppose the bill to cover advance pay--yearly allowance not shorten sessions, 636; further consideration advanced, 636; motion to strike out the word annual passed, 637; motion to strike out greater allowance to the Speaker, 638; debated at length, 638; motion lost, 639.

Congress.--Day of meeting, 9; note, 46; proposition to adjourn first session, 16; adjournment of first session, 20; compensation of members, 116; debate on, 116; pay of members, 123; debate on discrimination in pay of members of two Houses, 123; compensation of members and officers, 129; debate on amount of pay, 129; first session, adjournment of, 167; second session, day of meeting, 168; members of, when term of office commenced, 171; second session, 175; first, third session, 251; first, closed, 308; second, first session, 309; second, first session closed, 379; second session commenced, 388; third, first session, 455; third, second session, 520; adjournment, second session of third Congress, 591; fourth, first session, 592.

Connecticut.--Vote for President, 10, 385.

Constitution.--Amendment of, proposed by Virginia, 47; how treated by the House, 48; debate on the mode of, 133; on the freedom of conscience, 137; right of instruction, 138; debate on, 138; vote on, 144; all amendments, in one report, 144; constitution, amendments of; see Amendment of the constitution.

CONTEE, BENJAMIN, Representative from Maryland, 89, 175.

Contested Elections.--Debate on the resolution that William Smith, member of the House, had been seven years a resident of the United States at the time of his election, 94; statement of Mr. Smith, 94; was Mr. Smith a citizen of South Carolina during his absence in Europe? 97; if the laws of the State decided him to be, that should settle the question, 97; is the gentleman eligible to a seat in the House, or has he been seven years in the United States? 97; qualities of a citizen and an alien, 97; to become a citizen, allegiance is first due to the whole nation, 98; what was the situation of the people of America when the dissolution of their allegiance took place? 98; views of Mr. Madison, 98; opposite views of Mr. Jackson, 99; vote admitting Mr. Smith, 99.

Ineligibility of Albert Gallatin to a seat in the Senate, considered, 448; on the petition of Conrad Earle, reported that it remains with Mr. G. to prove his citizenship, 448; facts stated, 448; who shall open the prosecution and conclude the arguments? 449; Mr. G. was an inhabitant of the United States before the peace of 1783, 449; all previous laws respecting aliens were done away, 449; he conceived himself a citizen from the time of his first qualifying, 449.

Qualifications required in Virginia and Massachusetts, 449; mischievous consequences of permitting such innovations, 449; the doctrine of the old law still virtually in force, 449; other objections considered, 450; reply of Mr. Gallatin, 450, 451, 452; vote of the Senate, 452.

COOPER, WILLIAM, Representative from New York, 604.

Cotton, its introduction into South Carolina contemplated, 37.

COUNT DE GRASSE, Memorial of heirs of, 582.

CRABB, JEREMIAH, Representative from Maryland, 624.

Creek Nation.--Secret article of treaty with, 173.

Crown on the State House at New Haven, 563.

DALTON, TRISTRAM, Senator from Massachusetts, 10, 168, 251; on committee for conducting reception of President, 11.

DAWSON, WILLIAM J., Representative from North Carolina, 455, 527.

DAYTON, JONATHAN, Representative from New Jersey, 316, 388, 455, 527, 604; in favor of the attendance of the Secretary of War, 391; on discharging committee on defeat of St. Clair, 395; on reduction of the army, 400; acknowledges thanks of the House, 440; on the sequestration of British debts, 483; against continuing the embargo, 500; moves to refer indemnity resolution to committee on sequestration of British debts, 503; advocates his motion, 503; in favor of the bill to increase the army, 515; on admitting the delegate south of the Ohio, 529; on administering the oath to the delegate south of the Ohio, 531; on the President's speech, 535; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 547, 548; on Pennsylvania insurgents, 552; on amending naturalization laws, 555; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 568; on the purchase of Indian lands, 583; elected Speaker, 604; do. speech, 604; on establishing Indian trading-houses, 624; on the pay of the Speaker, 638; on the execution of the British Treaty, 748; on the admission of Tennessee, 754, 755; on the military and naval appropriation, 764, 765.

DEARBORN, HENRY, Representative from Massachusetts, 455, 527, 664; on thanks to General Wayne, 546; on the sense of the House relative to the British treaty, 750, 751; on the admission of Tennessee, 755.

Debate, on duties and imports, 37, 41, 57, 58; on permanent seat of government, 145; on amendments of the Senate to House bill fixing seat of government, 165; on call of the House, 176; on manner in which Secretary of the Treasury shall make a report, 177; on answer to President's speech, 178; on admission of reporters, 180; on census of United States, 181; on report of Secretary of the Treasury, 182; on the naturalization laws, 184; on the assumption of State debts, 191; on the reception of the address of the Friends urging the discontinuance of the slave trade, 202; publication of, 377; on a military establishment, 390; on the defeat of St. Clair, 391, 393; on the reduction of the army, 398; on official conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury, 418; on the pay of soldiers, 459; on the commerce of the United States, 464; on the war with Algiers, 475; on sequestration of British debts, 483; on non-intercourse with Great Britain, 493; on the embargo, 499; on indemnity for spoliations, 503; on tobacco and sugar duties, 507, 599, 511; on the delegate south of the Ohio, 529; on answer to President's speech, 531; on Pennsylvania insurgents, 547; on naturalization bill, 555; on reduction of salaries, 571; on Thomas Pearson and others, 576; on Indian lands in Georgia, 586; on the address to the President, 605; Robert Randall bribery case, 609; on appropriations, 625; on Treaty with Great Britain, 639; on admission of Tennessee, 754.

Debt of the States, note, 140; assumption of, 191.

Delaware, vote for President, 10, 385.

Delegates from Territories.--Report on the credentials of James White, Representative of the territory south of the Ohio, 528; unconstitutional to permit the delegate to debate and not to vote, 528; the law says he shall be a member of Congress--one House is not Congress, hence the delegate may vote in both Houses, 528; constitution makes no provision for such a person, 528; his proper title is to a seat in the Senate, 529; the House can admit those whom it regards as lawfully entitled to a seat, 529; by whom was he to be paid? 529; expedient to admit the delegate, 529; the House has the right to consult or admit any one to debate, but not to vote, 529; an act of the whole legislature requisite for the introduction of a delegate, 529; an act of the legislature impracticable, 529; he has a right to a seat founded on an original compact, 530; amendment proposed, 530; the constitution admits no such character, 530; report of the committee, 530; moved that the delegate be required to take an oath, 531; the constitution requires only members and the clerk to take an oath, 531; improper to demand an oath of a delegate as he cannot vote, 531; motion lost, 531.

DENT, GEORGE, Representative from Maryland, 455, 527, 604.

Departments, executive, debate on, 85; of interior, organization of, proposed as a home department, 85; of State, organization of, proposed, 85; resolved, 86; of treasury, organization of proposed, 85; of war, organization of, proposed, 85; of the treasury, organization of, proposed, 90; debate, 90; three commissioners of treasury voted down, 94; executive, resolution on, 94; do. committee on, 94; of State, on removal of the Secretary by the President, 102; of war, 108; do. bill ordered to be engrossed, 109; of the treasury, debate on duties of the Secretary, 109; home, 127; proposition lost, 128; see Executive departments.

DEXTER, SAMUEL, Jr., Representative from Massachusetts, 457, 528; on the French emigrants from St. Domingo, 463; against continuing the embargo, 500; opposes reference of the indemnity resolutions to committee on sequestration of British debts, 505; on admitting the delegate south of the Ohio, 529, 530; on the President's speech, 532, 535, 538; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 550, 551, 553; on amending naturalization laws, 556; on the exclusion of titled foreigners from citizenship, 557.