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244, 284, 321, 347, 301, 387, 389. Their Parliament commented upon, 173, 176, 257, 404, 415. Their Constitution not a proper guide, 188, 215, 234, 237, 283, 387.

BROOKS, COLONEL, a deputy from the array to Congress, 21, 23. Views on the Federal Constitution, 572.

BROOM, JACOB, attends the Federal Convention, 23. Opposes an adjournment of the Convention without adopting some plan, 318. In favor of electing the President by electors chosen by the state legislatures, 324, 338. In favor of the President holding during good behavior, 325. In favor of nine years as the senatorial term, 242. Claims an equal vote for the small states in the Senate, 293. Thinks members of Congress should be paid by the states, 420. In favor of a negative of Congress on the state laws, 468. Wishes officers in the army and navy excepted from the provision of ineligibility for Congress, 425.

BURGOYNE, GENERAL, 6, 78.

BURNET, MAJOR, 26, 58.

BUTLER, PIERCE, a delegate to the Federal Convention from South Carolina, 105. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Proposes a rule to provide against absence from the Convention, and an improper publication of its proceedings, 125. Objects to reduce the power of the states, 138, 139. Approves of the distribution of the powers of government, 133. Views on the mode of electing the President, 365, 509. Objects to frequent elections of the President, 339. Desires the power of making war to be vested in the President, 438. In favor of a single executive, 149, 153. Opposes an absolute negative of the President, 153. Proposes to confer on the President a power to suspend laws for a limited time, 154. Urges a settlement of the ratio of representation in the Senate before deciding on that of the House, 240. Opposes compensation to senators, 187. Proposes that senators be eligible to state offices, 247. Proposes that the states be represented in the Senate according to their property, 275. Thinks that two thirds of the Senate should make peace without the executive, 524. Proposes that representation in the House of Representatives be according to contribution or wealth, 178, 181, 281, 290, 302, 303. Thinks representatives should be ineligible to office for a year after their term, 229, 230. Contends that blacks shall be equally included with whites in fixing the proportion of representation, 296, 302. Opposes an election of the representatives by the people, 137. Opposes too great a restriction of the right of suffrage for representatives, 386. Desires to increase the required period of residence of a representative in his district, 390. Opposes the admission of foreigners into Congress without a long residence, 398, 412. Thinks members of Congress should be paid by the states, 425. Thinks taxation should be apportioned to representation before a census, 452. Opposes the power of Congress to tax exports, 454, 461. Views as to the exclusive origination of money bills by the House, 189, 394. Does not desire to' have a vote of two thirds to pass navigation acts, 490. Opposes the power of Congress to emit bills of credit, 434, 435. Thinks the regulation of the militia should be left to Congress, 444. Opposes the negative of Congress on the state laws, 174. Objects to inferior national tribunals, 159, 331. Views on the payment of creditors under the Confederation, 469, 471, 476. Proposes that fugitive slaves should he delivered up, 487, 492. Wishes the seat of government fixed by the Constitution, 374. Thinks the assent of Congress should be required to the inspection laws of the states, 539. Thinks no new state should be erected within the limits of another without its consent, 493. Proposes a ratification by nine states as sufficient, 499.

CADWALADER, LAMBERT, proceedings in regard to admission of a British consul, 101.

CANADA, proposal to add it to the United States, 45. Certain inhabitants of, ask for grant of land, 83. Indemnity to refugees from, 89.

CANALS, power of Congress to make them, 543.

CAPITA, vote per capita, in the Senate, 356, 377, 398, 539.

CAPITATION TAXES, how proportioned, 130, 379, 471, 545, 561.

CAPTURES, ordinance of the Confederation regulating them, 16, 18. Treaty with the Dutch concerning them, 27. Under the jurisdiction of the judiciary by the Constitution, 128, 187, 192. Congress may legislate about, 130, 378, 436, 561.

CARBERRY, leader of the mutiny at Philadelphia, 94.

CARDS exempt from duty, 63.

CARLETON, SIR GUY, his evasive conduct in regard to the murderers of Captain Huddey, 2, 3. His correspondence relative to a settlement of the accounts of the prisoners, 4. Sends the preliminaries of peace, 74. Refuses to suspend hostilities, 80. Sends a proclamation of cessation of hostilities, 84.

CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM, letters from him, 1.

CAROLINA. See and.

CARRINGTON, EDWARD, views as to salaries, 99. Knows Mr. Madison's sentiments, 575, 576.

CARROLL, DANIEL, represents Maryland in Congress, 1. Reports against the proposal of Pennsylvania to provide for public creditors within the state, 5. Advocates coercive measures against Vermont, 10. Proposes a letter to the governor of Rhode Island relative to Mr. Howell's publications, 15. Considers an impost the only practicable tax, 55. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners at Paris, 74. Remarks on the proportion of freemen to slaves in apportioning the representation of the states, 79. Remarks on disbanding the army, 89. Proposes that there be no foreign ministers except on extraordinary occasions, 90. Attends the Federal Convention, 287. In favor of choosing the President by electors chosen by lot from the national legislature, 362. Advocates an election of President by the people, or by electors chosen by them, 472, 473. Is in favor of a negative on the acts of Congress, 430. Doubts relative to the senators voting per capita, 357. Proposes that senators may enter their dissent on the journal, 407. Proposes to confine the yeas and nays to the House of Representatives, 407. Does not think the apportionment of representation before a census should be a rule for taxation, 451. Objects to members of Congress being paid by the states, 426. Thinks a vote of two thirds should be required to expel a member of Congress, 407. Remarks on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, 463. Thinks more than a majority should be required in certain cases, 432. The discrimination as to money bills, a continual source of difficulty, 420. Opposes the provision to disqualify persons having unsettled accounts from being members of Congress, 372. Thinks the states should be guarantied against violence, 333. Thinks the states should be allowed to lay tonnage duties, to clear harbors, and build lighthouses, 548. Desires a regulation as to the trade between the states, 478, 503. Views in regard to the large territorial claims of the states, and the public lands, 494, 496. Views in regard to the ratification of the Constitution, 452, 499. Thinks an address to the people should accompany the Constitution, 546.

CARTHAGE, 162.