Insurgents of Pennsylvania.--See Pennsylvania Insurgents.
Intercourse Foreign.--On the bill providing means of intercourse with foreign nations, 242; moved to strike out thirty and insert forty thousand dollars, 242; reasons urged in opposition, 242; reasons urged in favor of the motion, 242; motion adopted, 242.
Invalid Pensions, bill reported, 406.
IRVINE, WILLIAM, Representative from Pennsylvania, 455, 551.
IZARD, RALPH, Senator from South Carolina, 10,168,251,309, 380, 441, 520; on committee on future disposition of papers of late Secretary of Congress, 10; added to Judiciary committee, 10; on committee for conducting reception of President, 11; on committee to wait on Vice President, 11.
JACKSON, GEO., Representative from Virginia, 604.
JACKSON, JAMES, Representative from Georgia, 42, 175, 255; remarks in favor of reducing duties, 44; remarks on tonnage duties, 48; on power of Congress to require oaths of State officers, 51; objects to high duties on account of expense of their collection, 64; temptation to smuggle, 64; considers subject of title for President as trifling, 68; urges postponement of consideration of duty on African slaves imported, 73; further remarks, 74; urges limitation to impost bill, 81; on the power of the President to remove officers, 87; remarks on citizenship and foreign allegiance, 98; opposes discrimination in the pay of Senators and Representatives, 123; further remarks, 126; on the form of amending the constitution, 136; on the rights of instruction, 139; on location of a seat of Government, 149; on amendments of the Senate to House bill on seat of Government, 165; on subjects embraced in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 182; further remarks, 183, 184; on testimonials of behavior and conduct as requisites of naturalization, 187; favors a progressive and probational naturalization, 189; further remarks, 189; a funded debt is an injury, 191; further remarks, 195, 197, 199; opposes a commitment of the Quaker memorial, 202; on property of master in the slave, 209; on discrimination among the public creditors, 216; further remarks, 217; on memorial of Officers of the Navy, 240; on answer to the President's message, 256; further remarks, 257; on price of public lands, 261; moves to strike out essential part of first clause of bill relating to duties on distilled spirits, 261; remarks on, 261; further remarks, 264,270,271,272; on the commitment of the bill for Bank of the United States, 272; speech on the Bank, 285; petition on election and return of Anthony Wayne, 324; Senator from Georgia, 445, 520.
JACOBS, ISAAC, Representative from Pennsylvania, 389.
Jails of the States, resolutions on, 308.
JAY, JOHN, votes for, as Vice President in 1789, 10.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, desires to return from France as Minister, 15; votes for, as Vice President in 1793, 386.
JOHNS, KINSEY, claims a seat as Senator from Delaware--claim considered, 453; rejected, 453.
JOHNSON, WM. S., Senator from Connecticut, 9, 168, 254; resigned, 309; on committee on future disposition of papers of late Secretary of Congress, 10; on committee of arrangements for reception of President, 10; on committee to prepare answer to Washington's inaugural, 12; on committee on titles of President and Vice President, 13.
JOHNSTON, SAMUEL, Senator from North Carolina, 171, 251, 309, 383.
JOHN TORREY.--Petition of, in Committee of the Whole on report of Secretary of Treasury, 317; Congress promised half-pay to the officers who should continue in service to the end of the War.--Major Torrey continued in service till near end of 1783 and died, did he continue in service to the end of the war? 318; peace concluded April, 1783, 318; what was the intention of the parties in this contract? 318; when did the war end? 318; what does the law of nations say? 318; distinction between preliminaries and a definite treaty by the law of nations, 318; objections considered, 319; the question does not turn on a judicial principle, 319; certain established rules have been observed in settling with every officer, 320; terms of contract decided by the sovereign power, 320; motion for accepting report carried, 320.
Judiciary, Senate committee on, first Congress, 10.
Kentucky, memorial of a convention in, 253; vote for President in 1793, 385.
KEY, PHILIP, Representative from Maryland, 388.
KING, RUFUS, Senator from New York, 16, 168, 251, 312, 380, 444, 520, 591; on answer to Presidents speech, 594.
KITCHELL, AARON, Representative from New Jersey, 316, 388, 455, 527, 604; on the ratio of representation, 328; on the execution of the British treaty, 734.
KITTERA, JOHN W., Representative from Pennsylvania, 323, 388, 455, 527, 604; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 569; on the right to Indian lands within a State, 578; on the execution of the British treaty, 729.
LA FAYETTE, bill relative to the accounts of, 448; son of, letter from, 740.
Lands, Western, disposal of, 99; report of committee, 113; plan of land office, 115. See Public Lands.
LANGDON, JOHN, Senator from New Hampshire, 9, 168, 251, 309, 380, 441, 520, 590; elected President of Senate, 9; on committee of arrangements for reception of President, 10; address to Vice President on his taking the chair, 11; administers the oath to the Vice President according to law, 15; elected President of Senate pro tem., in the absence of Vice President, and President pro tem., 380; elected President pro tem. of Senate, 441.
LATIMER, HENRY, Representative from Delaware, 527.
LATIMER, HUGH, Senator from Maryland, 524, 591.
LAWRENCE, JOHN, Representative from New York, 22, 175, 255, 315, 388; remarks on laying duties on imports as proposed, 24; remarks on duty on distilled spirits, 38; favors high duty on beer, 33; do. duty on candles, 35; advocates duty on salt, 39, 40; on requiring oaths of State officers, 52; favors permanent rate of tonnage duties, 55, 56; on the object of duties, 65; doubts the propriety of limiting the impost bill, 78; on duties of Secretary of Treasury, 112; on the compensation of the President, 116; opposes furnishing houses, &c., 116; on the form of amending the constitution, 135; on the location of the seat of Government, 149; on the manner of persuading members, 154; on the constitutional requirements for a seat of Government, 160; on the mode and reason for admitting foreigners to citizenship, 185; further remarks, 187; on the validity of the full amount of the debt, 195; on effects of stopping importation of slaves, 202; on Pennsylvania memorial, 209; presents the address of Society of Friends in New York against the African slave trade, 211; on discrimination of public creditors, 213; on a seat of Government, 244; further remarks, 247; moves to strike out "Potomac," and insert Baltimore, 249; on price of public lands, 261; further remarks, 262; on excise bill, 264; on vacancy in the Presidency, 268; on officers, 271; on the commitment of the bill for a bank of the United States, 273; speech on the bank, 284; on claim of John Torrey, 317; on ratio of representation, 320; further remarks, 322; on the bill for the encouragement of the cod fishery, 361; on attendance of Secretary of War, 391, 392; on discharging committee on defeat of St. Clair, 394; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 426; further remarks, 427.
LEARNED, AMASA, Representative from Connecticut, 315, 388, 455, 527.
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