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STRONG, CALEB, Senator from Massachusetts, 9, 168, 309, 380, 445, 523, 591; on committee on rules of first Congress, 10; on manner of electing chaplains, 10; on rules of business, 10; appointed on Judiciary Committee, first Congress, 19; on committee to wait on Vice President, 11; on the resolution relative to the presentation of the French flag, 598.

STURGES, JONATHAN, Representative from Connecticut, 21, 175, 255, 315, 388.

Sugars, duty on, 33.

SUMTER, THOMAS, Representative from North Carolina, 175, 320, 388; on the location of a seat of Government, 151; opposition to bill organizing State Department, 108; on the petition of Catharine Greene, 338, 341.

SWANWICK, JOHN, Representative from Pennsylvania, 604; on establishing Indian trading houses, 625, 634; on a stenographer for the House, 629, 631; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 642; on the execution of the British treaty, 707; on the sense of the House relative to the British treaty, 751.

SWIFT, ZEPHANIAH, Representative from Connecticut, 457, 527, 604; on conducting the Algerine war, 478; on the legality of sequestering the British debts, 491; on the constitutionality of admitting a territorial delegate, 528, 530; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 547, 548, 552; on establishing Indian trading houses, 624; on the pay of the Speaker, 638, 639; on the resolutions relative to the refusal of the President to furnish papers on the British treaty, 701.

SYLVESTER, PETER, Representative from New York, 43, 175, 255, 315, 389; on oaths of State officers, 52; favors limitation of impost bill, 83; on the impeachment clause of the constitution, 88; on Pennsylvania memorial, 209.

TALBOT, SILAS, Representative from New York, 455.

Tanners of Newark, N. J., petition of, 360; referred to committee, 364; do. of New York, 370.

TATOM, ABSALOM, Representative from North Carolina, 604.

TAYLOR, JOHN, Senator from Virginia, 445; do. resigned, 524.

TAZEWELL, HENRY, Senator from Virginia, 524, 594; on answer to President's speech, 596; on resolutions relative to presentation of French flag, 600.

Teas, duty on, considered, 32; proposed duty on, 41; debated, 41; duty fixed, 42.

TELFAIR, EDWARD, votes for, as Vice President, in 1789, 10.

Tennessee, bill for laying out, before the Senate, 601.

Tennessee, Admission of, report relative to territory south of the Ohio River considered, 754; the people inhabiting any territory of the United States, cannot of their mere will and pleasure, and without the consent of Congress, erect themselves into a separate and independent State, 754; a law might be passed now to provide for it, 754; no reason for objecting to receive those people as a State, 755; the State Government is already organized and in operation, 755; statement of proceeding in Tennessee, 755; under the ordinance they had a clear right to be admitted, for they had the population required, 755; one State preferable to two, 755; the Government is Republican, and the population adequate to admit the State at once, 756; course of proceeding which should have been taken, 756; terms of the compact considered, 757; constructions of the compact, 758; right claimed for the people, 759; resolution reported by committee adopted, 759; moved that some law should be passed by Congress recognizing the territory as a State before they were admitted into the Union--negatived, 759.

Territories.--See Delegate from Territories.

THATCHER, GEORGE, Representative from Massachusetts, 21, 175, 255, 315, 388, 455, 527, 604; on duty on molasses, 29; do. on salt beef, 34; on the flag of the Union, 461; on the Randall bribery case, 615.

THOMAS, RICHARD, Representative from Pennsylvania, 604.

THOMPSON, CHARLES, appointed by the Senate to notify Washington of his election, 10; writes to the Senate respecting his notification of Washington, 11.

THOMPSON, MARK, Representative from New Jersey, 604.

Title of President and Vice President, 11; House committee thereon, 12; report of same made, 12; message from the House thereon, 13; committee of conference appointed by Senate, 13; consideration of original report postponed, 14; disagreement of committee of conference, 14; resolution of the Senate respecting the same, 14; report of House committee thereon, 47; message from Senate on, 58; message from Senate--debate thereon, 65; debate on resolution against a committee of conference with the Senate on titles of President and Vice President, 65; constitution prescribes the power of the House respecting titles, 66; a committee of conference should not be appointed because it is a subject which the House has no right to consider, 66; the House agreed no title should be conferred, and a joint committee so reported, but the Senate resolved upon a title, and ask our concurrence, 66; excite alarm among those who fear that the constitution is hostile to popular liberty, 66; to countenance such a measure would be an indignity to the House, 66; conference unnecessary, 67; a respect due to the Senate, 67; titles harmless, 67; add no power, 67; they diminish the true dignity and importance of a Republic, 67; a committee of conference very proper, 67; a committee unnecessary, 67; umbrage should not be given to the Senate, 67; no purpose secured by a committee, 67; subject better be dropped, 68; the proposition of a title is trifling with the dignity of the Government, 68; a committee of conference could be appointed without seeming to countenance the measure, 68; after having adopted the report of the committee it would derogate from their dignity to rescind a unanimous resolution, 68; committee appointed, 69.

Tobacco, manufactured, duty fixed, 41.

Tonnage Duties, proposed, 23; debate thereon, 48, 53; fixed, 57; method of discussing the subject, note, 57. See Duties on Tonnage.

TRACY, URIAH, Representative from Connecticut, 455, 527, 604; on duties on tobacco and sugar, 510; on the President's speech, 533; on exclusion of titled foreigners from citizenship, 558, 564; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 569; on the rights of the House relative to treaties, 672.

Treasury Department.--See Executive Departments.

Treasury, Report of Secretary of.--Motion that the Secretary of the Treasury's report be in writing, 177; if he reports in person he can answer inquiries, 177; propriety doubted, 177; if the report is written it will be better understood, 177; the importance and extent of the subject is such it should be in writing, 177; motion carried, 177; report under consideration, 182; postponement moved, 182; it embraces two important objects: first, that all idea of discrimination among the public creditors as original holders and transferees, ought to be done away; second, the assumption of the State debts by the General Government, 182; the States should be consulted, 182; a considerable postponement required, 182; speculation is rife--if postponed too long fluctuations will be still greater, 182; postponed until North Carolina enters the Union, 183; Congress possess all the information necessary to act on the measure, 183; speculation has existed since the securities were first issued, 183; the subject of the State debts should not be decided until the sense of the Legislatures is known, 183; the postponement should be long enough to enable members to enter on the task with understanding, and the spirit of speculation should be counteracted at the earliest practicable period, 183; impossible to suppress speculation, 183; the policy of speculation, 184; the speculation arisen since the report was denounced, 184; objects of the report submitted in the form of independent resolutions, 190; assumption of State debts considered, 191; doubtful if a permanent funded debt is beneficial or not, 191; history of funded debts, 191; a precedent that will bring ruin, 191; debts of the States unknown, 192; the funding will occasion enormous taxes for interest, 192; all that can be done is to provide funds for the gradual extinction, 192; funding a small debt is beneficial, 192; we have a debt already and some funds must be appropriated for payment of interest, 192; the foreign and domestic debt carry very material distinctions, 193; the domestic securities should be considered in a depreciated state, 193; an equivalent was not received for them in hard cash like the foreign debt, 193; domestic debt should be liquidated at its real value, 193; terms proposed by the Secretary, 193; the Government is in a very different situation with respect to foreign and domestic creditors, 194; we are not judges of the claims of our creditors, but parties to the contract, 194; if we are parties, what would be the decision before a court of justice, 194; the French loans, 195; no distinction between foreign and domestic creditors, 195; the face of the paper is our guide, the demand is not to be lessened, 195; if it is intended to reduce either, the principles on which such a measure is founded should be considered, 195; nature of the public contract, 196; the same argument might be applied to paying the Continental debts at their nominal value, 196; the present Government should pay the debts of the United States, but as the domestic part has been contracted in depreciated notes, less than six per cent. interest should be paid on it, 196; if the Government is one party and the individual the other, who is the judge? 197; can two parties exist in a well organized government to dispute about property and have no judge? 197; is not the want of consideration a good plea? 197; we stand in the same condition as the late Congress, who are admitted to be parties, 197; the Government should be at liberty to ascertain the amount of the debts assumed as the motion contemplates, 197; discrimination and liquidation the two great points involved, 198; manner in which the debt was contracted, 198; if the certificates, at the time they were issued, were taken for only a small part of their face, they should not now be raised to the full amount, 198; debts of the United States of four kinds, 199; their character, 199; the subject should be decided at this time, 199; a discrimination of some kind necessary, 200; three classes of creditors, 200; the obligations of each considered, 200.

To discriminate between original creditors and present holders, &c., moved, 205; extent and form in which the debt exists, 205; the United States owes the value they have received, and which they acknowledge, 205; to whom is payment really due? 205; four classes of creditors, 205; the principles that govern the decision of their respective pretensions considered, 205, 206; motion to amend original proposition, 207; the debt is still due, and if the owner has transferred it shall we disown his act? 207; the nature of contracts, 211; their transferability, 212; the property of the certificates is now vested in the transferees, 212; if they are now divested by Government, it is an ex post facto law, 212; the proposed discrimination, 212; effects of, 213; this doctrine repugnant to the interests and prosperity of the Union, 213; the States are restrained from passing laws violating contracts, 213; public justice requires a performance of contracts, 213; the new paper given might be subject to another liquidation on the same principle, 214; the proposition is unjust, impolitic, and impracticable, 214; strict justice the plain line of conduct, 215; other objections, 215; the debt is the price of our liberties, and cannot be diminished a farthing, but the measure proposed does diminish it, 215; the obligation of the debt is not denied, the difficulty is how it shall be discharged, 216; the justice of discrimination, 216; the army repudiate discrimination, 217; no Legislature should interfere with a contract--but it does not appear that the transaction between the original holders and the purchasers of certificates was a fair one, 217; other points in favor of the measure, 218; justice or legality of the measure--its practicability or policy and consequences, 219; the claim of the soldier just, 219; state of public opinion, 220; seven-eighths of the debt has not been disposed of from necessity, 220; inequitability of the measure not shown, 221; how far will this measure operate as a precedent? 221; a review of the grounds upon which the proposition has been combated, 223; the United States cannot pay in full original creditors or assignees, what course is just and expedient? 226; all parties understood there would be no discrimination in certificates transferable, 227; other objections examined, 227; the ability of the Government and the claims of assignees, 228; motion lost, 228; note, 228, 250.