391Military Establishment, [5 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 20 December 1792 Steele introduced a resolution to reduce the military establishment and to repeal the relevant sections of “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States” of 1792, which JM had reported from committee during the first session. Steele’s resolution was taken up in Committee of the Whole on 2 January 1793 (...
392Settlement of the State Claims, [10 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 12 December 1792 FitzSimons offered four resolutions authorizing “a loan to the amount of the balances which, upon a final settlement of accounts, shall be found due from the United States to the individual States” ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d Cong., 2d sess., 742). On 10 January 1793 he...
393To James Madison from Francis Corbin, ca. 10 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 10 January 1793. Mentioned in Corbin to JM, 29 Jan. 1793 . Requests JM “to write to the old judge Pendleton upon the Subject of the Ensuing Election to Congress: and to intercede with him in my behalf.”
394From James Madison to Joseph Jones, ca. 12 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 12 January 1793. Mentioned in Jones to JM, 21 Jan. 1793 . Encloses newspapers with intelligence of the military victories and the establishment of the First Republic in France. Requests that the papers be forwarded to Ambrose Madison.
395To James Madison from Daniel Carroll, 13 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 11th Ulto. came to hand. Notwithstanding I have hitherto been disappointed in procureing the intelligence requested respecting the Potok. Navigation, I have not desisted in my endeavours & have hopes of success. I have allways considerd the Success of this undertakeing in so important a view in many respects, that my utmost endeavours have been exerted in favor of it, & in...
396Indian Lands, [17 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 14 November 1792 the House appointed a committee headed by White to prepare a bill “to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes,” which he reported on 29 November. On 15 January 1793 JM moved an amendment which the House took up two days later ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d...
397To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 21 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor inclosing the Papers containing the late important and agreeable intelligence from Europe. The affairs of France have taken a very favorable turn and bid fair to establish the new republic. I agreeable to your request, forwarded the papers to Mr. Ambrose Madison under the care of Mr. J. Blair who promised they shod. have the earliest conveyance. This day is set apart...
398Settlement of the State Claims, [21 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
FitzSimons reported the bill authorizing “a Loan in the certificates or notes of such States as shall have balances due to them upon a final settlement of accounts with the United States” ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d Cong., 2d sess., 830). In the Committee of the Whole, Mercer moved (by...
399From James Madison to Daniel Carroll, 27 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 January 1793. Acknowledged in Carroll to JM, 11 Feb. 1793 . Comments on congressional proceedings and European events.
400To James Madison from George Lee Turberville, 28 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of December 2d. last past reached me in 22 days, for which receive my thanks, a severe fit of the Gout has deprived me of the use of my Limbs ever since, tho’, thank heaven the mildness of the Winter, surpassing every thing the Memory of Man ever knew in this Country is again bringing me about. Mild as the Winter has been, no Snow having as yet ever whiten’d the ground, & very...
401Settlement of the State Claims, [28 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The bill providing for a final settlement of state accounts with the United States was read a third time. Page moved the previous question (which took precedence), “Shall the main question, that the bill do pass, now be put?” ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d Cong., 2d sess., 846, 850). Mr. Madison...
402To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 29 January 1793 (Madison Papers)
Two or three weeks ago I wrote to you and requested you to write to the old judge Pendleton upon the Subject of the Ensuing Election to Congress: and to intercede with him in my behalf. Having heard nothing from you since—and being under some apprehensions that Mr. J. Taylor has interfered to injure me, by infusing his Antifederal Spirit into one or two men here, I have thought it well again...
403To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 7 February 1793 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letters with the papers inclosed and have delivered to Mr. Blair those intended for your brother to be forwarded by the first conveyance. The good fortune of the Frenchmen seems to be joyfully entertained by the Republicans in Boston and the public display of their joy will I hope produce a good effect on the minds of many of the people in that quarter and revive their...
404Compensation of the President and Vice-President, [7 February] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The House took up “the bill fixing the compensation of the President and Vice President of the United States.” Mercer moved to amend the bill by placing on it a four-year time limit to ensure the dependence of the executive upon the legislative branch. Livermore and Gerry opposed the amendment. Mr. Madison said, that the independence of the executive with regard to the legislative, as...
405To James Madison from Daniel Carroll, 11 February 1793 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 27th Ulto came to hand. With respect to yr. proceedings I have not receiv’d the papers sufficiently regular to follow you. I hope intentions are good, all then will be right. How it is to be in Europe Father time only will say. I expect all Ireland will be in America shortly; if the people can only lay in a Sufficient Stock of potatoes to keep themselves alive on their...
406Public Debt, [11 February] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The House passed a resolution on 21 November 1792 requesting the secretary of the treasury to report a plan for the reduction of the public debt. On 3 December Hamilton submitted his report, which the Committee of the Whole considered on 11 February 1793 ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d Cong., 2d...
407Notes on Documents from the Secretary of the Treasury, ca. 15–19 February 1793 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. Ca. 15–19 February 1793. A summary outline of the official documents and letters that the secretary of the treasury presented to the House of Representatives in response to the 23 Jan. 1793 resolutions introduced by William Branch Giles calling for information on the repayment of loans owed to France since the American Revolution. Most of the first page relates to Hamilton’s...
408From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 23 February 1793 (Madison Papers)
Since we had the pleasure of Col: Taylor’s arrival I have left in his better hands the trust of keeping you supplied with whatever communications might interest or amuse you. As the political scene here, is however soon to be suspended, I can not refuse myself the last opportunity I shall have before a dispersion of the dramatis personæ takes place, of enjoying the pleasure I always feel in...
409To James Madison from Richard Peters, 26 February 1793 (Madison Papers)
Always attentive to your Requests I have looked over & considered the Bill about which you spoke to me. Time is too short to correct it. Yet I rather retract this Idea, not being in the Predicament of one of our State Circuit Judges, who wrote, a few Weeks ago, a long Letter to our Assembly, & told them “his Time was so prodigiously taken up that he had not Leisure to shorten his Letter.” I...
410Inquiry into General St. Clair’s Defeat, [26 February] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The House defeated Hartley’s motion “that the House should go into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the failure of the expedition under Gen. St. Clair” and approved Livermore’s motion “that the committee of the whole should be discharged from the consideration of said report.” Mr. Madison then moved the following in substance, viz....
411From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 1 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
I red. yesterday yours inclosing a letter to Mr Chew, which I forward this morning. The one here inclosed from him came to hand a few days ago. For the news I refer to the inclosed papers, having not a moment to spare for adding more than that I remain Yr. Affee. son RC ( NjP ). Letter not found. Probably James Madison, Sr., to Joseph Chew, 19 Feb. 1793 ( ViW ).
412Resolutions Censuring the Secretary of the Treasury, [1 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
In the final political attack on Hamilton of the second session, Representative William Branch Giles on 27 February introduced nine resolutions censuring the official conduct of the secretary of the treasury. “Giles’s resolutions … were so worded as to carry innuendo that something was very wrong” (Freeman, Washington , VII, 4–5 nn. 23, 24). They were probably intended to influence the...
413Advice to the President, [2 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The President having some doubts with respect to the “Act for extending the time for receiving on loan that part of the Domestic Debt &c”—whether it might not prevent the Commissioners from closing the Accts. between the U. S. and Individual States within the time limited—desired the Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury on that head; who gave it decidedly, that it related only to the Debt...
414Notes on Proposed Constitutional Amendments, [ca. 3 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The following amendments to the Constitution have it is said been laid before the Senate by the Members from Virginia, and will claim the attention and consideration of the public in the interval between the late and the Ensuing Session. Here insert the amendts. As one of the amendts. has for its object the purification of the Legislature from the pecuniary influence which has been so much...
415Memorandum by Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
Qu. 1? What sacrifice may be made to retain mr Johnson in the office of Commissioner for the federal territory? Answ. For such an object it is worth while to give up the plan of an allowance per diem, to give, instead of that, a sum in gross, and to extend that sum to 500. Dollars per annum, and expences; the latter to be rendered in account. If mr. Johnson persists in resigning, as it is...
416From James Madison to George Nicholas, 15 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed list of Acts passed at the late Session will be a clue to most of the business which employed it. Some of the most interesting objects presented for consideration were either not taken up or not pursued into effect. In this number is the plan reported by the Secretary of the Treasury for paying off the public debt, which you will probably h⟨ave⟩ seen in the Newspapers. A...
417From James Madison to Hubbard Taylor, 16 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 March 1793. Acknowledged in Taylor to JM, 23 May 1793 . Encloses newspapers and reports on the attempt during the recently adjourned congressional session to censure the secretary of the treasury’s official conduct.