Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2). Benton Thomas Hart

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СКАЧАТЬ year, and every day of every quarter – all resulting from the impossibility of applying money to objects until there has been time to apply it. Yet in the time of those balances of which Mr. Adams speaks, there was a law to retain two millions in the treasury; and now there is a law to retain six millions; while the current balances, at the rate of a fourth or a fifth of the income, are many times greater than the sum ordered to be retained; and cannot be reduced to that sum, by regular payments from the treasury, until the revenue itself is reduced below the expenditure. This is a financial paradox, sustainable upon reason, proved by facts, and visible in the state of the treasury at all times; yet I have endeavored in vain to establish it; and Congress is as careful as ever to provide an annual income equal to the annual expenditure; and to make permanent provision by law to keep up a reserve in the treasury; which would be there of itself without such law as long as the revenue comes within a fourth or a fifth of the expenditure.

      The following members composed the two Houses at this, the first session of the twentieth Congress:

SENATE

      Maine – John Chandler, Albion K. Parris.

      New Hampshire – Samuel Bell, Levi Woodbury.

      Massachusetts – Nathaniel Silsbee, Daniel Webster.

      Connecticut – Samuel A. Foot, Calvin Willey.

      Rhode Island – Nehemiah R. Knight, Asher Robbins.

      Vermont – Dudley Chase, Horatio Seymour.

      New-York – Martin Van Buren, Nathan Sanford.

      New Jersey – Mahlon Dickerson, Ephraim Bateman.

      Pennsylvania – William Marks, Isaac D. Barnard.

      Delaware – Louis M'Lane, Henry M. Ridgeley.

      Maryland – Ezekiel F. Chambers, Samuel Smith.

      Virginia – Littleton W. Tazewell, John Tyler.

      North Carolina – John Branch, Nathaniel Macon.

      South Carolina – William Smith, Robert Y. Hayne.

      Georgia – John M'Pherson Berrien, Thomas W. Cobb.

      Kentucky – Richard M. Johnson, John Rowan.

      Tennessee – John H. Eaton, Hugh L. White.

      Ohio – William H. Harrison, Benjamin Ruggles.

      Louisiana – Dominique Bouligny, Josiah S. Johnston.

      Indiana – William Hendricks, James Noble.

      Mississippi – Powhatan Ellis, Thomas H. Williams.

      Illinois – Elias K. Kane, Jesse B. Thomas.

      Alabama – John McKinley, William R. King.

      Missouri – David Barton, Thomas H. Benton.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      Maine – John Anderson, Samuel Butman, Rufus M'Intire, Jeremiah O'Brien, James W. Ripley, Peleg Sprague, Joseph F. Wingate – 7.

      New Hampshire – Ichabod Bartlett, David Barker, jr., Titus Brown, Joseph Healey, Jonathan Harvey, Thomas Whipple, jr. – 6.

      Massachusetts – Samuel C. Allen, John Bailey, Isaac C. Bates, B. W. Crowninshield, John Davis, Henry W. Dwight, Edward Everett, Benjamin Gorham, James L. Hodges, John Locke, John Reed, Joseph Richardson, John Varnum – 15.

      Rhode Island – Tristam Burges; Dutee J. Pearce – 2.

      Connecticut – John Baldwin, Noyes Barber, Ralph J. Ingersoll, Orange Merwin, Elisha Phelps, David Plant – 6.

      Vermont – Daniel A. A. Buck, Jonathan Hunt, Rolin C. Mallary, Benjamin Swift, George E. Wales – 5.

      New-York – Daniel D. Barnard, George O. Belden, Rudolph Bunner, C. C. Cambreleng, Samuel Chase, John C. Clark, John D. Dickinson, Jonas Earll, jr., Daniel G. Garnsey, Nathaniel Garrow, John I. De Graff, John Hallock, jr., Selah R. Hobbie, Michael Hoffman, Jeromus Johnson, Richard Keese, Henry Markell, H. C. Martindale, Dudley Marvin, John Magee, John Maynard, Thomas J. Oakley, S. Van Rensselaer, Henry R. Storrs, James Strong, John G. Stower, Phineas L. Tracy, John W. Taylor, G. C. Verplanck, Aaron Ward, John J. Wood, Silas Wood, David Woodcock, Silas Wright, jr. – 34.

      New Jersey – Lewis Condict, George Holcombe, Isaac Pierson, Samuel Swan, Edge Thompson, Ebenezer Tucker – 6.

      Pennsylvania – William Addams, Samuel Anderson, Stephen Barlow, James Buchanan, Richard Coulter, Chauncey Forward, Joseph Fry, jr., Innes Green, Samuel D. Ingham, George Kremer, Adam King, Joseph Lawrence, Daniel H. Miller, Charles Miner, John Mitchell, Samuel M'Kean, Robert Orr, jr., William Ramsay, John Sergeant, James S. Stevenson, John B. Sterigere, Andrew Stewart, Joel B. Sutherland, Espy Van Horn, James Wilson, George Wolf – 26.

      Delaware – Kensy Johns, jr. – 1.

      Maryland – John Barney, Clement Dorsey, Levin Gale, John Leeds Kerr, Peter Little, Michael C. Sprigg, G. C. Washington, John C. Weems, Ephraim K. Wilson – 9.

      Virginia – Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Wm. S. Archer, Wm. Armstrong, jr., John S. Barbour, Philip P. Barbour, Burwell Bassett, N. H. Claiborne, Thomas Davenport, John Floyd, Isaac Leffler, Lewis Maxwell, Charles F. Mercer, William M'Coy, Thomas Newton, John Randolph, William C. Rives, John Roane, Alexander Smyth, A. Stevenson, John Talliaferro, James Trezvant – 22.

      North Carolina – Willis Alston, Daniel L. Barringer, John H. Bryan, Samuel P. Carson, Henry W. Conner, John Culpeper, Thomas H. Hall, Gabriel Holmes, John Long, Lemuel Sawyer, A. H. Shepperd, Daniel Turner, Lewis Williams – 13.

      South Carolina – John Carter, Warren R. Davis, William Drayton, James Hamilton, jr., George M'Duffie, William D. Martin, Thomas R. Mitchell, Wm. T. Nuckolls, Starling Tucker – 9.

      Georgia – John Floyd, Tomlinson Fort, Charles E. Haynes, George R. Gilmer, Wilson Lumpkin, Wiley Thompson, Richard H. Wilde – 7.

      Kentucky – Richard A. Buckner, James Clark, Henry Daniel, Joseph Lecompte, Robert P. Letcher, Chittenden Lyon, Thomas Metcalfe, Robert M'Hatton, Thomas P. Moore, Charles A. Wickliffe, Joel Yancey, Thomas Chilton – 12.

      Tennessee – John Bell, John Blair, David Crockett, Robert Desha, Jacob C. Isacks, Pryor Lea, John H. Marable, James C. Mitchell, James K. Polk – 9.

      Ohio – Mordecai Bartley, Philemon Beecher, William Creighton, jr., John Davenport, James Findlay, Wm. M'Lean, William Russell, John Sloane, William Stanberry, Joseph Vance, Samuel F. Vinton, Elisha Whittlesey, John Woods, John C. Wright – 14.

      Louisiana – William L. Brent, Henry H. Gurley, Edward Livingston – 3.

      Indiana – Thomas H. Blake, Jonathan Jennings, Oliver H. Smith – 3.

      Mississippi – William Haile – 1.

      Illinois – Joseph Duncan – 1.

      Alabama – Gabriel Moore, John M'Kee, George W. Owen – 3.

      Missouri – Edward Bates – 1.

DELEGATES

      Arkansas Territory – A. H. Sevier.

      Michigan Territory – Austin E. Wing.

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