mons, Dwight Foster, Ezekiel Gilbert, William B.
Giles, James Gillespie, Nicholas Gilman, Henry Glenn,
Benjamin Goodhue, James Gordon, William Barry
Grove, George Hancock, Carter B. Harrison, John
Heath, James Hillhouse, Samuel Holten, John Hunter,
William Irvine, Amasa Learned, Richard Bland Lee,

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NAYS.-John Beatty, Elias Boudinot, Thomas Fitzsimons, George Hancock, William Hindman, Andrew Pickens, Thomas Scott, Silas Talbot, and Artemas Ward.

ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATIONS.

be appropriated for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and, after some time spent therein, the Chairman reported that the committee had again had the said report under consideration, and come to a resolution thereupon; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same was twice read, and agreed to by the House, as follows:

Mathew Locke, William Lyman, Nathaniel Macon, The House again resolved itself into a CommitFrancis Malbone, Joseph McDowell, Alexander Me- tee of the Whole House on the Report of the Sebane, William Montgomery, Andrew Moore, Peter Muh-cretary of the Treasury of the sums necessary to lenberg, William Vans Murray, Joseph Neville, Anthony New, John Nicholas, Nathaniel Niles, John Page, Josiah Parker, Francis Preston, Robert Rutherford, Theodore Sedgwick, John S. Sherburne, John Smilie, Jeremiah Smith, Israel Smith, Samuel Smith, Thomas Sprigg, Zephaniah Swift, George Thatcher, Uriah Tracy, Thomas Tredwell, Jonathan Trumbull, John E. Van Allen, Philip Van Cortlandt, Peter Van Gaasbeck, Abraham Venable, Peleg Wadsworth, Francis Walker, John Watts, Benjamin Williams, Paine Wingate, Richard Winn, and Joseph Winston. The resolution of the Senate, containing the said proposed article of amendment, was then read the third time, as follows:

"Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threefourths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the said Constitution, viz:

"The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State:"

And on the question, that this House doth coneur with the Senate in the said proposed article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, it was resolved in the affirmative-yeas 81, nays 9, as follows:

YEAS.-Fisher Ames, Theodorus Bailey, Abraham Baldwin, Thomas Blount, Shearjashub Bourne, Benjamin Bourne, Lambert Cadwalader, Thomas P. Carnes, Gabriel Christie, Thomas Claiborne, David Cobb, Peleg Coffin, Joshua Coit, Isaac Coles, William J. Dawson, Henry Dearborn, George Dent, Samuel Dexter, William Findley, Dwight Foster, Ezekiel Gilbert, William B. Giles, James Gillespie, Nicholas Gilman, Henry Glenn, Benjamin Goodhue, James Gordon, William Barry Grove, Carter B. Harrison, John Heath, Daniel Heister, James Hillhouse, Samuel Holten, John Hunter, William Irvine, Henry Latimer, Amasa Learned, Richard Bland Lee, Matthew Locke, William Lyman, Nathaniel Macon, James Madison, Francis Malbone, Joseph McDowell, Alexander Mebane, William Montgomery, Andrew Moore, Peter Muhlenberg, William Vans Murray, Joseph Neville, Anthony New, John Nicholas, Nathaniel Niles, John Page, Josiah Parker, Francis Preston, Robert Rutherford, Theodore Sedgwick, John S. Sherburne, John Smilie, Jeremiah Smith, Israel Smith, Samuel Smith, William Smith, Thomas Sprigg, Zephaniah Swift, George Thatcher, Uriah Tracy, Thomas Tredwell, Jonathan Trumbull, John E. Van Allen, Philip Van Cortlandt, Peter Van Gaasbeck, Abraham Venable, Peleg Wadsworth, Francis Walker, John Watts, Benjamin Williams, Paine Wingate, Richard Winn, and Joseph Winston.

Establishment of the United States, for the year
Resolved, That, for the support of the Military
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, there
be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding
one million four hundred and fifty-seven thou-
sand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and one
cent; that is to say:
For the pay of the Legion of the
United States
For subsistence
For forage
For equipments for the cavalry
For clothing
For horses for the cavalry
For bounty

For the Hospital Department
For the Ordnance Department
For repairs and articles directed
to be made and purchased by
the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES -

For defensive protection of the
frontiers

For the Indian Department
For the Quartermaster's Depart-

ment

For contingencies of the War De-
partment
And for Invalid Pensions

$303,684 00

312,567 75

31,632 00

112,000 00

7,314 05

16,000 00

5,000 00

20,000 00

6,715 32

202,783 34

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Fortifications.

[MARCH, 1794.

tries; and that such duties may be laid on the ex-state the expense which would probably be incurportation of beaver and other furs from the United red at the several places mentioned; the aggre States, as shall be sufficient to encourage and pro-gate of which is as above stated.

tect domestic manufactures. Also, the several Mr. FITZSIMONS, who was on the select competitions of the manufacturers of hats in the States mittee, observed that it must appear to the Comof New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, to themittee of the Whole, that the report was subsame effect.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to Mr. WATTS, Mr. Corr, Mr. HINDMAN, Mr. DEXTER, Mr. GILES, Mr. DAYTON, and Mr. PAGE; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon, to the House.

stantially a recommendatory measure, the carrying of which into execution must eventually depend on various circumstances; all that Congress can do, he added, was to vote a sum of money; and leave the execution of the plan to the discretion of the PRESIDENT OF THE United States, to be completed in such manner as he may find expedient. The Committee went through the re

the number of places to be fortified, and diminishing the number of cannon in others, so that the aggregate of the expense remains the same.

Mr. DEARBORN, from the committee appointed to report on the expediency of establishing a light-port; some alterations were made by increasing house on the island of Seguin, at the mouth of the river Kennebeck, in the District of Maine, made a report; which was read: Whereupon, Resolved, That it is expedient for the United States to establish a light-house on the island of Seguin, near the entrance of the river Kennebeck, in the District of Maine.

Mr. FITZSIMONS then moved sundry resolutions for carrying the report into effect; these were severally put and agreed to: as follows:

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Resolved, That the President of the United Ordered, That a bill or bills be brought in pur-States be authorized to cause such of the ports suant to the said resolution, and that Mr. DEAR- and harbors of the United States to be put BORN, Mr. BENJAMIN BOURNE, and Mr. TRACY, into a state of defence, as he may judge necessary, do prepare and bring in the same. and that a sum, not exceeding dollars, be appoint-provided for that purpose.

Mr. FITZSIMONS, from the committee ed, presented a bill to provide a naval armament; which was read twice and committed.

FORTIFICATIONS.

"Resolved, That provision ought to be made for procuring one hundred cannon of thirty-six pounders, and one hundred of twenty-four pounders, with carriages and implements for the same.

"That carriages and implements for one hundred and fifty cannon, with five hundred and sixty tons of cannon shot, ought to be procured, and that a sum not exceeding be provided for the

Resolved, That the President of the United States be authorized to employ such part of the troops, on the Military Establishment of the United States, as he may judge necessary, in any of the fortifications which may be erected for the defence of any of the ports or harbors of the United States."

The House went into a Committee of the
Whole on the report relative to placing the ports
and harbors of the United States in a posture of
defence-Mr. BOUDINOT in the Chair.
The report was read. It states that the follow-purpose aforesaid.
ing ports and harbors ought to be put in a state of
defence, to wit: Portland, in Maine; Portsmouth,
in New Hampshire; Cape Ann, Salem, Marble-
head, Boston, in Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode
Island; New London, Connecticut; New York;
Philadelphia; Baltimore; Norfolk; Wilmington,
North Carolina; Ocracock Inlet, Charleston,
South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia. The forti-
fications to be of a nature to defend the several
ports and harbors against surprise by naval arma-
ments; that the several places to be fortified be
garrisoned by troops in the pay of the United
States.

From the estimates it appears that the sums ne-
cessary to erect the fortifications
amount to

That two hundred cannon will be
necessary, which, with their carri-
ages, &c., amount to

$76,053 25

96,645 00

The Committee then rose, and the Chairman reported the amendments and resolutions to the House.

The amendments were to insert Penobscot, Machias, Newburyport, Annapolis, and Georgetown, South Carolina, as places to be fortified; the several amendments and resolutions were adopted by the House. And it was

Ordered, That a bill or bills be brought in pur-
suant to the said resolutions, and that Mr. FITZ-
SIMONS, Mr. GOODHUE, Mr. JEREMIAH WADS-
WORTH, Mr. FORREST, Mr. Malbone, Mr. BOUDI-
NOT, Mr. PARKER, Mr. MACON, Mr. WINN, Mr.
GILMAN, Mr. WATTS, Mr. ORR, Mr. BALDWIN,
Mr. ISRAEL SMITH, Mr. LATIMER, and Mr. DAY-
ΤΟΝ, do prepare
and bring in the same.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
The following Message was received from the
Gentlemen of the Senate, and

of the House of Representatives:
The Secretary of State having reported to me upon
the several complaints which have been lodged in his

Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, from the committee ap pointed, presented a bill transferring, for a limited time, the jurisdiction of suits and offences from the District to the Circuit Court of New Hampshire, and assigning certain duties in respect to Mr. SwIFT, from the committee to whom was Invalid Pensions, to the Attorney of the said Disreferred the petition of Josiah Witter, made a re-trict; which was read twice and committed. port; which was read: Whereupon,

Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, from the committee apMr. HILLHOUSE, from the committee appointed, pointed, presented a bill allowing Lieutenant presented a bill to authorize Ephraim Kimberly Colonel Tousard an equivalent for his pension for to locate the land warrant issued to him for ser-life; which was read twice and committed. vices in the late American army; which was read twice and committed.

Slave Trade-Naval Armament.

The third section, which relates to the penalty, &c., it was moved should be struck out. This motion was negatived. It was then moved to insert the word foreign before "ship or vessel;"tradesmen, and other citizens of the county of which was agreed to.

The House proceeded to consider the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, for the appointment of a Joint Committee of the two Houses to The House then went into Committee of the consider and report what business is necessary to Whole, on the bill to provide a Naval armament-be done by Congress in the present session, and Mr. BOUDINOT in the Chair. what part of the business now depending may be, without great inconvenience, postponed until the next session, that the proceedings may be so regulated as to close this session by the first Monday in April next. Whereupon,

Resolved, That this House doth agree to the said resolution, and that Mr. MADISON, Mr. MURMr. B. BOURNE observed, that the force con-RAY, and Mr. KITTERA, be appointed a committee templated would afford no protection to the com- on the part of this House.

MARCH, 1794.]

National Defence.-Naval Armament.

NATIONAL DEFENCE.

Mr. SEDGWICK this day gave notice, that on Wednesday next he should submit to the consideration of the Legislature certain resolutions, the object of which would be the means of defence required by our present situation, and the funds which might be required to defray the expense. This notice was introduced by Mr. S. with the following previous observations:

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ducting the business, three months more ought to be suffered to pass before anything is done.

With respect to the conduct of the Select Committee, it was said that, in the first discussion of the subject, the report was objected to on account of the ways and means being connected with it; to remove this objection, the bill was reported in the form before the House.

The motion being put for recommitting, it passed in the negative, 48 to 41.

The House then proceeded to fill up the blanks. In the course of filling up the blanks, the opposition to the bill was revived on old and new grounds. The first were on account of its incompetency to the object, considering the resources of the Algerines and the superior policy of having recourse to negotiation, and purchase of a peace; the new ground was derived from recent confidential communications, from which it was inferred, that the eligibility of the mode of procuring a peace by purchase was greatly strengthened. From this view of the subject a transition was made to the subject of navies generally, in which the bad consequences connected with their establishment were depicted in animated terms. The blanks were all filled; and on the question Shall the bill pass?

He said he had heretofore done himself the honor to declare to the House, that, in his opinion, it was the duty of the Legislature, as the guardians of the public safety, at a time when Europe was convulsed, and this country suffering many injuries, to provide for its defence, and, as events might happen, to avenge its injuries. That the preservation of peace, an object so necessary to our political and individual happiness, might materially depend on the wisdom and firmness of the Legislature in this respect. That he had hoped and expected some plan for these important purposes would, before this time, have been presented to Congress; that, in his opinion, it would be unpardonable to leave our country in this naked and exposed situation, during the approaching recess; that it ought no longer to remain uncertain whether the property and best interests of our citizens were to remain in a situation to be insulted and Mr. GILES observed, that, from the sense of the injured with impunity. He said he should forbear House several times manifested upon this subject, to give even the outlines of the system which his there remained no doubt but that the bill would pass. own mind had embraced, because he should al-In that event, he most earnestly hoped that the sucways be willing to prefer any other more compe- cess of the measure would,at least, equal the expectatent to the end. His only object at present was, tions of its advocates. Indeed, he hoped that their exto call the reflections of gentlemen to this impor-pectations would be disappointed and exceeded; tant subject.

NAVAL ARMAMENT.

The engrossed bill providing a naval armament for the protection of the commerce of the United States, was read a third time. A motion was made to recommit it to a Committee of the Whole House. This motion was principally supported on the ground of the Select Committee having deviated from the report of the Committee of the Whole; which report connected the ways and means of defraying the expense of the armament with the details of the armament, whereas the bill contains no such estimate. It was further observed, that no injury could result from a short delay, equal to what would be the consequence of sanctioning such a flagrant deviation on the part of the Select Committee from the established rules of the House: that it was quite a new thing to hurry a business of such magnitude through the House.

for it did not seem to him that even they were very positive as to its full competency to the end proposed. He even wished that every ship could be furnished with the cap of Fortunatus and the shield of Hercules; for he was persuaded that, in the present state of things, some magical influence would be found essential to enable them to effect their undertaking. He observed, that, at present, the wisdom or folly of the proposed measure was mere matter of opinion; but the passage of the bill will furnish futurity with a complete experiment of its true character.

He intended to offer his reasons against the passage of the bill, not with a hope of making proselytes, but as a testimony of the real motives which influenced his opposition. With this view, he should only mention some of the general impressions produced on his mind by this subject, without fatiguing the House with minute exemplifications of them.

The subject had presented itself to him in two points of view-1st, as affording a protection to our commerce against the Algerine depredations; 2d, as the foundation of a permanent naval establishment.

The motion to recommit the bill was negatived. In opposition to the motion, it was ironically observed, that as the carrying trade and the trade to the Mediterranean were of so trifling importance, it was really surprising that the business of providing a protection for the commerce of this country, exposed at this moment to the depreda- He could not help premising that, in the course tion of the Algerines, should be hurried with so of discussion, the advocates of the bill had cenmuch impetuosity through the House! Three sured its opponents with a want of disposition for months have already elapsed, the greater part of the protection of commerce, whilst they claimed which this subject has been under consideration; a monopoly of all good intention towards this obto steer clear, therefore, of impetuosity in con- ject. He did not mean to derogate from the good