Part 260

Appropriations, Naval, bill making for the year 1806 considered in the House, 474; moved to strike out the words “and other contingent expenses,” 474; note, 474; what objects intended to be provided for under this term, 474; this bill mere form, the money might be appropriated in the lump, 474; expenditure the same, 474; motion to strike out, lost, 474; annual expenditures for the navy, 475; further debate, 475; bill ordered to third reading, 476; moved to recommit, 478; passed, 478; importance of circumscribing contingencies, 478; time to check this loose proceeding, 478; bill reported, 478.

Appropriations.--See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

ARCHER, JOHN, Representative from Maryland, 52, 285, 378. See Index, vol. 2.

Arms, exportation of, amendments to bill relative to, 380.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN, Senator from New York, 38, 44.

Army.--See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

Army Uniforms, petition of Andrew Jackson relative to, 167.

BACON, EZEKIEL, Representative from Massachusetts, 614; on inquiry into the conduct of Gen. Wilkinson, 648.

BAILEY, THEODORE, Senator from New York, 3; resigns his seat in the Senate, 39. See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, Senator from Georgia, 3, 163, 345, 485. See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

BALDWIN, SIMEON, Representative from Connecticut, 79, 286.

Bank of the United States, memorial of stockholders, 611.

Bank of the United States.--See Index, vol. 1.

Bankrupt Act, vote on the bill to repeal in Senate, 38; bill to repeal, as passed by the Senate, 38.

In House.--Resolution to repeal considered, 79; no remonstrance hostile to it has been received, 79; law expires by its own limitation in a few years, 79; principle unjust, as it favors one class of citizens at the expense of all others, 79; the preferable system was that of the States extending relief to insolvents, 79; its partial operation has a most mischievous influence on the morals of the mercantile world, 79; the principle inequitable as regards debtor and creditor, 79; while justice and humanity dictates the liberation of the body of the debtor, justice forbids the exoneration of property from going to satisfy debts, 80; the principle of the law, however good in theory, can never be carried into effect, 80; the expenses are an objection to the system, 80; note, 80; the honest, though unfortunate, debtor has nothing to fear from his creditors, 80; the public silence indicates neither hostility nor opposition, 80; true policy to suffer the act to expire by its own limitation, 81; general sentiment of the nation concurs in the propriety of affording some relief to the distresses of the commercial world, 81; if the exoneration of property from just debts is a violation of justice, this does not hold in commercial concerns, 81; credit is the life of trade, 81; the principles of a bankrupt law do not operate in favor of the debtor, 81; such a system multiplies checks against fraud, 81; one object of the constitution in granting the power, was the establishment of credit upon broad principles of justice, 81; report of committee agreed to, 82; amendment extending the period of removal moved, 82; amendment directing the completion of all proceedings under commissions taken out previous to repeal, 82.

Bankruptcy.--See Index, vol. 2.

BARBARY POWERS, protection of commerce against, see Duties on Imports.

BARD, DAVID, Representative from Pennsylvania, 50, 285, 377, 493, 612; on a tax on imported slaves, 96; on the importation of slaves, 130. See Index, vol. 2.

BARKER, JOSIAH, Representative from Massachusetts, 377, 493, 612.

BARNEY, JOSHUA, report on petition of, 615.

BASSETT, BURWELL, Representative from Virginia, 377, 493, 613; to prohibit members of Congress from making contracts with the Government, 659.

BASSETT, JOHN, his testimony for the defence on the trial of Judge Chase, 210.

BAYARD, JAMES A., Senator from Delaware, 165, 353, 487, 552; on British aggressions on our commerce, 357. See Index, vol. 2.

BEAUMARCHAIS, claim of petition relative to, 473; claim of report on, 542.

BECKLEY, JOHN, chosen Clerk of the House, 51, 378. See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

BEDINGER, GEORGE M., Representative from Kentucky, 50, 285, 378, 493; on a tax on imported slaves, 130, 132, 140.

BEDFORD, GUNNING, his testimony for the defence on the trial of Judge Chase, 225.

BENTLEY, WM., appointed Chaplain by the House, 164.