HARRISON, CARTER B., Representative from Virginia, 455, 528, 604.
HARRISON, ROBERT H., votes for, as Vice President, 10.
HARTLEY, THOMAS, Representative from Pennsylvania, 21, 175, 260, 309, 455, 527, 606; speech on laying duties on imports, 25; on duties of the Secretary of the Treasury, 111; on the form of amending the constitution, 136; on the right of instruction, 138; on location of the seat of Government, 146; further remarks, 148; on the propriety of naturalization laws, 185; urges residence as a condition of naturalization, 186; further remarks, 190; on the Quaker memorial, 202; calls up memorial of Pennsylvania Society, 208; further remarks, 229; on discrimination among the public creditors, 219; moves report on memorial of officers of the navy, 239; do. remarks on, 239; on a seat of Government, 246; on the petition of Catharine Greene, 339; on the reduction of the army, 399; further remarks, 403; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 550, 551; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 647.
HATHORN, JOHN, Representative from New York, 43, 175, 260, 608.
HAVENS, JONATHAN N., Representative from New York, 604.
HAWKINS, BENJAMIN, Senator from North Carolina, 170, 251, 309, 380, 441, 520.
HEATH, JOHN, Representative from Virginia, 455, 527, 604; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 549; on the execution of the British treaty, 719.
HEISTER, DANIEL, Representative from Pennsylvania, 21, 175, 255, 315, 458, 528, 604; appointed by the House to make list of votes for President as they are counted in the Senate, 22; advocates encouragement to growth of hemp by duty, 37; appointed on committee to draft bill on tonnage duties, 57; moves to select Harrisburg for the seat of Government, 151.
Hemp, debate on duty on, 36, 37; do. fixed, 38.
HENDERSON, THOMAS, Representative from New Jersey, 606.
HENRY, JOHN, Senator from Maryland, 10, 168, 254, 312, 382, 523, 591.
HILLHOUSE, JAMES, Representative from Connecticut, 315, 389, 456, 527, 604; on the ratio of representation, 327; on vacancy of Presidency, 335; on the reduction of the army, 414; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 429; on the advance of money to France, 514; on the President's speech, 532, 540; on thanks to General Wayne, 542; on damages by Pennsylvania insurgents, 547, 554; on the admission of foreigners to citizenship, 560; on the resolutions relative to intruders on Indian lands, 585; on the resolution relative to bribery, 622; on a salary for members of Congress. 635; on the pay of the Speaker, 638; on the rights of the House relative to treaties, 690; on the execution of the British treaty, 721; on the sense of the House relative to the British treaty, 751.
HINDMAN, WILLIAM, Representative from Maryland, 457, 527, 604.
HOLLAND, JOHN, Representative from North Carolina, 604; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 661; on the execution of the British treaty, 730.
HOLTEN, SAMUEL, Representative from Massachusetts, 455, 527.
House, elects Frederick A. Muhlenberg Speaker, 9; of Representatives, meets in Senate Chamber to count electoral votes, 10; meets Senate to count electoral votes, 22; proceedings relative to Washington's inaugural, 46; answer to same, 47, 53; thanks presented to the Speaker, 90; conference with the Senate on the impost bill, 113; results of, 113; adjournment of, 167; journal of, title of, 176; answer to President's speech, 178; answer to President's address at 3d session, 1st Congress, 259; answer to President's message, 316; answer to the President's message, 389; answer to the President's address, 456; answer of, to President's speech, 609; answer to the President's speech, 2d session, 3d Congress, 541.
HUGER, DANIEL, Representative from South Carolina, 27, 175, 255, 315, 390.
HUNTER, JOHN, Representative from South Carolina, 457, 528; on the relief of the French emigrants, 474.
HUNTINGDON, SAMUEL, votes for, as Vice President, 10.
HUNTINGTON, BENJAMIN, Representative from Connecticut, 21, 175, 255; on application to amend the constitution, 48; urges limitation of the impost bill, 79; on the power of removal, 103; on the amendment to the constitution relative to freedom of conscience, 137; opposes easy terms of naturalization, 189; on memorial of officers of navy, 240; on a seat of Government, 242.
Imports.--See Duties on imports.
Indemnity, for spoliations.--See Great Britain.
Indian lands within a State, Rights over.--The claim of Thomas Person to certain lands on the frontier of North Carolina, and ceded by the United States Commissioners to the Indians, considered, 576; note, 576; the conduct of other States, 576; the Government of the United States has converted property of the citizens of North Carolina, and they ask compensation, 576; examination of authorities on the rights of the sovereign to take property, 576; detail of the circumstances of the present dispute, 577; the claim of North Carolina to sell the land was wrong, 578; the cause of all the disputes with the Federal Government, 578; have the United States taken away any claim which the purchasers of these lands had, 578; suitable method to settle the matter, 578; Indians never occupied the lands, 578; on the limits of the States and the right to what was jointly acquired, 579; North Carolina could grant only the pre-emption right, 579; further details respecting the grants in North Carolina, 579; these lands within the limits guaranteed by the articles of Confederation, 580; further particulars, 580; resolutions reported to the House, 582; do. further reported, 583.
Indian lands disposed of by the Legislature of Georgia, considered, 583; resolutions on the subject, 584; they subject persons to martial law, 584; amendment proposed, 584; also that persons in pursuit of Indians should not be liable to the law, 584; useless to expend money to protect the frontier if this permission is granted, 585; better declare there shall be no frontier, 585; no man could be arrested under this amendment, 585; amendment carried in committee, 585; reported to House, 586; reasons for authorizing pursuit of Indians, 587; importance of the amendment, 587; further considerations, 588; lost, 589.
Indians, Southern, treaty to be negotiated with, 18.
Indian Trading Houses, bill for establishing trading houses for supplying Indians considered, 585; tends to conciliate an unhappy and distressed people, 585; bill of utmost consequence, 586; system of arrangements for the frontiers proposed, 586; bill to establish trading post considered, 624; amendments made, 624; the object of the bill unattainable, 624; it effects a change in our system, 625; influence of the Canada traders, 625; note, 625; objects of the measure, 625; bill put on its passage, 625; principles of the bill considered, 634; no opinion of governmental bargains, 634; note, 634; bill passed, 635.
Indian Tribes.--Message from the President on disputes between the same and some of the States, 16.
Instruction, right of debate on, 138.
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