KING, RUFUS—Continued. remarks on the settlement of public accounts... .598 remarks on the negotiations with Spain............604, 607, 608, 610 Mississippi......... a delegate to the Federal Convention from Massachusetts... objects to the yeas and nays.... ....610 ..621 .721 .724 remarks on the nature of State sovereignty, under the Constitu- wishes the State Governments preserved, but made subordi- ...905 ....1014 his great anxiety for an harmonious adoption of a Constitution....1010 ...1156 objects to an Executive Council.... ...1056 1099 .....1076, 1084 ..1084 thinks exports should be taxed, if slaves are represented.... .1262 .856 objects to an election of Representatives by the State Legisla- tures........ ...927 ..... objects to the payment of the Representatives by the States.......933 .937, 940, 1482, 1484 objects to a landed qualification for members of Congress........1213 ..1281 1289, 1290 ..1446 thinks the States should not tax exports without the assent of KING, RUFUS-Continued. thinks the States should not be prevented from encouraging their objects to union of Judiciary with the Executive in revising the ..1447 .783, 811 favors the establishment of inferior national tribunals........ .....700 ..1374, 1375, 1587 proposes a prohibition on the States, in regard to laws affecting contracts...... views as to treaties.. remarks on the provision, in regard to the militia....... desires a permanent seat of government................. proposes the assent of the States to purchases of places therein...1496 prefers to submit the Constitution to the Congress of the Con- course in the Convention of Massachusetts, called to ratify the .1623 .668 fugitives from, to be delivered up........1447, 1456, 1558, 1589, 1620 LAFAYETTE .518 .49 mode of valuation discussed in Congress..112, 250, 260, 316, 321, 417, qualification in, proposed for members of Congress..... 421, 498, 501, 503 ........ 1211 .1249 ...50 Congress passes Mr. Jones's resolutions in regard to them..........52 LANDS, PUBLIC their cession demanded by the Confederation...... LANDS, PUBLIC-Continued. refuses to adopt those providing for the expense of Government, and annulling purchases from Indians.... ......51, 53 .52, 54, 63 ......69 the States may annex conditions to their cessions.... Congress hesitates to accept the cession of Virginia, with the committee report unfavorably to its acceptance..... ... 100 .101 ..102 cession by New York approved of. .102 general statement of the cessions of Connecticut, New York, the influence of the question, of ceding the public lands, on the proposal to derive a revenue from them........159, 162, 166, 304, 362, 375 proposal to adopt a system in regard to.... proposal to give army certificates for..... 186, 469 ..435 .457 discussion, on the cession of them, renewed.....446, 459, 463, 539, 543 Virginia issues warrants.... Col. Mason's views in regard to cession of.. 572, 574 ...570 .579 .627, 638, 640, 651 .....638 sale of one hundred thousand acres to a New England company....651 LANGDON, JOHN 1459, 1464 attends the Federal Convention...... ...1175 thinks the ballot in Congress for the President should be joint....1419 Treasury....... 1326 ...1217 .1346 objects to a constitutional provision, requiring a property qualifi- LANGDON JOHN-Continued. .1395, 1429 wishes the States prohibited from taxing exports..........1382, 1384 .1411 views as to imposing conditions when admitting new States. 1457, 1459 LANSING, JOHN .1623 objects to the propositions of Mr. Randolph as amended and ..867 .......868, 910 thinks the Convention limited to the amendment of the Con- wishes some plan for compromise on the question of represen- LAWS-See ACTS. LAW OF NATIONS ...977 .1022 not sufficiently protected under the Confederation..... ......730 discussion in Congress on the proposal to exchange him for ..479 applies to Congress about Mr. Deane's allegations..... censures Dr. Franklin....... urges Congress to act on cession of public lands by Virginia.......................91 opposes the admission of Vermont..... opposition to Robert Morris....... his course not approved by Mr. Madison...... .58 ...58 ...58 ..93 .111, 371, 425 ....141 ..171 mòves a reference of the application of Kentucky for admission...164 returns to Virginia.......... LEE, ARTHUR-Continued. opposes a repeal of the impost....... ......501 states his objections to a general system of taxation......290, 301, 355 views on a system of permanent revenue... ..301 .309, 312 communicates a letter, relative to an overture from Canada.... ...321 .329 .330 urges a limitation of the impost......... .333 .335 proposes to take, by military force, goods seized while under proposes to appropriate the impost to pay the army first.......343, 345 348, 511 ..360 ...361 proposes measures against the refugees..... ...... remarks on the proportion of freemen to slaves in fixing the con- calls for a report from the Superintendant of Finance... proposes an indemnity to the officers of the army.... LEE, RICHARD H. advocates Declaration of Independence........ 408, 411 .424 .425 .427 .449, 450 ..449 546, 550 .578 .12 .141 chosen a delegate to the Federal Convention from Virginia........643 sends proposal of Austria, for commercial treaty...... relative to the continuance of the revenue laws.................. on the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.......1441, 1551, 1613 LINCOLN, GENERAL 183, 185 visits the army, to allay discontents....... tution.... ...669 |