Article seventeenth, relative to the admis- sion of new states, resumed - Motion not to require any other assent than that of Congress, to admit other states now exist- ing Disagreed to-Motion not to re- quire any other assent than that of Con- gress, to admit states over which those now existing exercise no jurisdiction Agreed to- Motion to allow the legisla- ture to form new states within the territory claimed by the existing states - Disa- greed to-Motion to require assent of the state legislatures to a junction of states- Agreed to-Motion to authorize the legis- lature to make regulations regarding the territories, but not to affect the claims either of the United States or the states - Agreed to-Motion to refer such claims to the Supreme Court - Disagreed to. Article eighteenth, guarantying to the states a republican government, and pro- tection against foreign invasion, and, on the application of the state legislature, against domestic violence-Motion to strike out the clause requiring the appli- cation of the state legislature - Disagreed to-Motion to authorize it on the appli- cation of the state executive - Agreed to TUESDAY, September 4, ............506 Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed-Motion that they shall lay and collect taxes to pay debts and provide for the common defence and welfare Agreed to - Regulate trade - - Article tenth, relative to the executive, resumed -Motion to appoint a Vice-Pres- ident, and he and the President to be chosen by electors appointed in such man- ner as the state legislatures may direct; if not chosen by a majority of the electors, to be balloted for by the Senate from the WEDNESDAY, September 5,..........510 Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed- Motion that they may grant letters of marque-Agreed to-Not make army appropriations for more than two years Agreed to- Have exclusive jurisdiction in the district ceded for the seat of government, and for other purposes, with the consent of the - Article tenth, relative to the executive, sumed Motion to exclude members of Article tenth, relative to the executive, Agreed to- - Motion that the Vice-Pres- two thirds of the Senate to make treaties of peace without the executive - Disa- - SATURDAY, September 8, ...........526 Article tenth, relative to the executive, re- sumed Motion to require treaties of peace to be consented to by two thirds of the Senate Agreed to-Motion to re- quire that in such cases two thirds of all the members be required-Disagreed to -Motion to extend impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors - Agreed to— Motion to withdraw trial of impeachment Article fourth, relative to the House of Representatives, resumed- - Motion that - Article tenth, relative to the executive, - All the articles, as amended and agreed MONDAY, September 10,............530 Article nineteenth, relative to amendments of the Constitution, resumed - Motion that legislature may propose amendments, to be binding when assented to by three Article twenty-first, relative to the number of states necessary for a ratifica- tion of the Constitution-Motion to re- quire the assent of the present Congress, before submitting it to the states for rati- Article twenty-second, relative to the Congress-Disagreed to-Motion to sub- mit the Constitution, after it is acted on by the state conventions, to a second Federal Convention - Postponed Motion that an address to the states accompany the Con- stitution, when transmitted for ratification WEDNESDAY, September 12,.........535 The Constitution, as reported by the com- mittee of revision, considered. Article first, relative to the legislative power-Motion to require two thirds, in- Motion to add a bill of rights - Disa- THURSDAY, September 13,...........................539 Motion for a committee to report articles of association for encouraging, by the in- fluence of the Convention, economy, fru- gality, and American manufactures - Article first, relative to the legislative power, resumed-Motion to permit the - Resolutions directing the mode of pro- Article first, relative to the legislative powers, resumed-Motion to change the Motion that officers impeached be sus- pended till trial — Disagreed to-Motion to require the House of Representatives to publish all its proceedings-Disagreed to- Motion that treasurer be appointed as other officers- Agreed to- Motion to provide for cutting canals and granting charters of incorporation, where the states may be incompetent-Disagreed to - To of the press Disagreed to-' To publish SATURDAY, September 15,...........546 Article first, relative to the legislative powers, resumed - Motion to change the present proportion of members in the House of Representatives-Disagreed to -Motion that the inspection laws of the states may be revised by Congress Agreed to-Motion that no state shall lay a duty on tonnage, without assent of Con- Article second, relative to the executive -Motion that President shall receive no emolument from the states during his term-Agreed to-Motion to deprive the President of the power to pardon treason -Disagreed to-Motion that appoint- ments to inferior offices may be vested by Article third, relative to the judiciary- DEBATES IN THE CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATION, FROM NOVEMBER 14, 1782, TO FEBRUARY 13, 1783. IN CONGRESS, MONDAY, November 4, 1782. ELIAS BOUDINOT was chosen president, by the votes of New Hampshire, represented by John Taylor Gilman and Phillips White; Rhode Island, by Jonathan Arnold and David Howell; Connecticut, by Benjamin Huntington and Eliphalet Dyer; New Jersey, by Elias Boudinot and John Witherspoon; Pennsylvania, by Thomas Smith, George Clymer, and Henry Wynkoop; Delaware, by Thomas M'Kean and Samuel Wharton; Maryland, by John Hanson, Daniel Carroll, and William Hemsley; the votes of Virginia, represented by James Madison and Theodorick Bland, and of South Carolina, represented by John Rutledge, Ralph Izard, David Ramsay, and John Lewis Gervais, were given to Mr. Bland; the vote of New York, represented by James Duane and Ezra L'Hommedieu, to Abner Nash; the vote of North Carolina, by Abner Nash, Hugh Williamson, and William Blount, to John Rutledge. Massachusetts, having no delegate but Samuel Osgood, had no vote. Georgia had no delegate. A letter, dated October 30, 1782, from General Washington, was read, informing Congress of his putting the army into winter-quarters, and of the sailing of fourteen ships of the line from New York, supposed to be for the West Indies, and without troops. A letter, dated July 8, from Mr. Carmichael, at St. Ildefonso, informing Congress of the good effect, in Europe, of the rejection of the proposal of Carleton by Congress and the states; that the king of Spain, speaking of the news at table, praised greatly the probity of the Americans, raising his voice in such a manner that all the foreign ministers might hear him. Mr. Carmichael adds, that he had discovered that the Imperial and Russian ministers, by directions from their courts, had renewed their offered mediation to His Most Catholic Majesty, and that he suspected England was at the bottom of it. Quære. A letter, dated Nantz, September 5, from Mr. Laurens, notifying his intention to return to America; that, being so advised by his friends, he had applied to the court of London for a passport via Falmouth; that Cornwallis had interested himself therein, and that the passport had been promised. TUESDAY, November 5. A resolution passed, authorizing General Washington to obtain the exchange of two foreign officers, notwithstanding the resolution of the 16th of October, declaring that Congress will go into no partial exchanges until a general cartel be settled on national principles. This measure passed, without due consideration, by the votes of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina. On the motion of Mr. OSGOOD, it was reconsidered, in order to refer the case to the secretary of war and General Washington, to take order. By Mr. MADISON opposition was made against any partial exchange in the face of the solemn declaration passed on the 16th of October, as highly dishonorable to Congress, especially as that declaration was made, in order to compel the enemy to a national convention with the United States. All exchanges had been previously made on the part of the former by the military authority of their generals. After the |