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 5 88 Doc70nents the President to ratify the treaty, without submitting the new article, after it shall be agreed to by the British king, to the advice and consent of the Senate?' Upon these points E. R. has satisfied himself.' But he knows, that it is contemplated to embarass the treaty, by objecting to the course, which may be observed in its ratification ; and therefore is anxious, that the President be supported in his measures upon it, by the best advice, which is at hand. Mr. Adet has proposed a conference with E. R. tomorrow morning. The hour proposed is 9 o'clock. Whatever has been lying in his breast, will no doubt then appear. June 25, 1795. MEMORANDUM OF FACTS TO BE RECORDED.' On the 8th of June 1795, Mr. Fauchet wrote to me, among other things, requesting that I would communicate to the President of the U. S. how desireable it would be, that the final vote of the Senate on the treaty with Great Britain should be suspended, until his successor, Mr. Adet. should arrive, and have time to impart his instructions, relative thereto, which he doubtless had. I did communicate Mr. Fauchet's letter to the President, on the same 8th of June; and it did not seem adviseable to take any measures upon that subject then. On Saturday the 13th of June in the evening Mr. Adet arrived and took lodgings in Philadelphia. On Monday, the 15th of June, at 11 o'clock in the morn- ing, Mr. Fauchet accompanied him to my house, and introduced him to me ; when he delivered to me a- copy of his letters of credence. These v.'ere that day shewn to the President, who, having approved them, au- thorized me to inform Mr. Adet, that he would be received next day at 2 o'clock P. M. I accordingly informed him. On the next day. the i6th of June, I returned Mr. Adet's visit; and as we were walking ' On the general subject of the ratification of treaties by the Senate with amendments see Senator H. C. Lodge's article, " The Treaty-Making Power of the Senate," in Scribner's Magazine for January, 1902, and Senate Document 104, 57th Congress, first session. The form followed by the Senate in this case was to give its advice and consent to ratification, " on condition that there be added to the said treaty an article, whereby it shall be agreed to suspend the operation of so much of the 12th article as respects the trade which his said Majesty thereby consents may be carried on, between the United States and his islands in the West Indies, in the manner, and on the terms and conditions therein specified. And the Senate recommend to the President to proceed with- out delay to further friendly negotiations with his Majesty, on the subject of the said trade, and of the terms and conditions in question." E.reciitirc Journals, I. 186. 2 His own replies, opposing the President's sending to the Senate an article already drawn up, to be approved as a substitute for Art. XII., is in Letters to Washington, 117, pp. 274, 275, and in Sparks, Washington, XI. 477, 478. »The original of this memorandum is in Letters to Washington, Miscel- laneous, 117, p. 286. Three sentences of it are printed, with omissions and some alterations, in Conway's Edmund Randoifh, p. 249.