CABINET CHANGES. MISSION TO ENGLAND. BENTON'S EXPUNGING RESOLU-
TION. FRENCH INDEMNITY.-POWER OF REMOVAL.-BRANCH MINT.
McLane's resignation, 617. Appointment of cabinet officers, 617. Rejection
of Stevenson, 617, 618. His resignation as speaker; Election of Bell, 619.
Report of bank committee, 619, 620. Calhoun's reports-a deposit bill, 620.
Deposit plan; Origin of sub-treasury, 620. Benton's expunging resolution,
621, 622. French spoliation bill, 623. Calhoun's report on executive patron-
age, and debate, 624-629. Branch mint, 629, 630.
FRENCH SPOLIATIONS.-PROSPECT OF WAR WITH FRANCE.- DEBATE ON THE
LOST FORTIFICATION BILL.
Senate report on French spoliations, 630. Adams' proposition, 631. Resentment
of the French government; Livingston's return, 632. The three million appro-
priation, 632-640. France demands an apology, 632. President Jackson asks
for power of reprisals, 633. Debate on the message, 634, 635. Benton's pro-
position of defense, 635. Debate on lost fortification bill, 635–640.
Effects of anti-slavery operations, 640. Case of Williams; Rewards for aboli-
tionists, 641. Opposition meetings at the north, 641, 642. Sentiments of the
press, 642, 643. Secession and non-intercourse suggested, 643, 644. Violation
of the mails, 644, 645. Anti-slavery address, 645-648. Action of congress on
petitions, 648-650. Senate mail prohibition bill, 650. Bill to prohibit the
mailing of anti-slavery papers, 650–653. Atherton's resolutions, 653, 654.
The specie circular of 1836, 666, 667. Meeting of congress; President's mes-
sage, 667, 668. Ewing's resolution to rescind the circular, and debate, 668-
672. Bill passed, and vetoed, 672. Mr. Benton's expunging resolution renew-
ed, 673. Debate, and passage of the resolution, 674-676. Election of Mr.
Van Buren, 676,677.
MR. VAN BUREN'S INAUGURATION. -SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS. SUB-
TREASURY.-OTHER FINANCIAL MEASURES.
Inauguration of Mr. Van Buren; Address, 677. State of the country; Specie
payments suspended, 678, 679. Congress specially convened, 679. Sub-
treasury and other bills proposed, 680. Debate on the bill to postpone the
deposits, 681-684. On the treasury note bill, 684-687. Sub-treasury bill-
lost, 687,688. Anti-slavery and Florida war propositions, 688.
Address, 740-744. His cabinet, 744.
He convenes congress; His death, 744. Mr. Tyler's inaugural, 745. Special
session of congress, 746. Sub-treasury repealed; Bank prepared, 747. Mr.
Tyler's veto of bank bills, 748. A new bill proposed, passed, and vetoed, 749.
Resignation of cabinet officers, 749. Statements of the retiring officers, 749-
753. Botts' letter, 753. Webster's, 754. New cabinet appointments; Whig
address, 754, 755. Bankrupt, distribution, and loan bills passed, 756.
Report on the tariff, 770-774. Minority report, 774-778. The revenue bill of
the secretary of the treasury reported, 778, 779. Bill with a proviso against
the suspension of the distribution act, 779. Vetoed by Mr. Tyler, 780. De-
bate on veto, 780-782. The revenue bill passed and vetoed, 782. Report on
veto, 782, 783. Bill without the distribution proviso passed, 783. A distribu-
on bill defeated by the president, 784. Petition relating to West India trade,
781. North-eastern boundary question settled, 784-786.
Southern views of annexation, 786. Annexation movements, 787. Treaty cor-
respondence, 787-790. Treaty rejected, 790. Secret debate on the treaty,
790-793. Mr. Benton's annexation bill, 793, 794. Debate on the same, 794-
798. Mr. Tyler's message to the house, 798. Explosion on the Princeton,
and death of secretaries Upshur and Gilmer, 799.
Bill to establish a government for Oregon, 815.
of Texas, 816, 817. House bill passed, 817, 818.
House
bill in the senate, 818. Mr. Benton's bill, 819. Debate on annexation, 819.
Mr. Benton's resolutions, with Mr. Walker's amendment, adopted, 820, 821.
Opinions on annexation, 822-825. Objects of annexation, 825-828. Mr. Ben-
ton's Boonville speech, 825, 826. Southern sentiment, 827. Nashville conven-
tion, 827, 828. Effect of tariff on prices, 828-830. Effects of annexation, 830.
Florida and Iowa admitted, 831. Act in relation to choosing presidential
electors, 831. Postage act, 831.
Mr. Polk's inauguration and address, 831, 832. His cabinet, 832. Death of Gen.
Jackson, 832. Difficulties with Mexico, 833-835. Army ordered to the Rio
Grande, 835. War message, 836. Adoption of war measures, 836. G. Davis'
speech, 837, 838. Effects of the war, 838. Two millions bill and Wilmot pro-
viso, 839. President's message, 840. Santa Anna's pass and return to Mexico,
841. Treasury note, and loan bill, 841. Objects of the war; Calhoun and
Benton, 842-844. Clayton's disclosure, 844, 845. A moral question, 845–847.
Rhett's theory on war power, 847. Treaty of peace, 848.
Negotiation commenced, 849. Position of the administration, 849-851. Nego-
tiation abandoned; Various propositions, 851-853. Mr. Adams' speech, 853–
855. Debate continued, 854-860. Excitement in England, 860. Propositions
to "give notice," 860-863. Apprehensions of war revived, 860, 861. Debate in
the senate, 861-863. Mr. Benton on the boundary, 863-865.
Attack upon the tariff of 1842; President's message, 865-867. Secretary's re-
port, 867, 868. Mr. Stewart's reply, 868-871. Bill reported, 871. Mr. Brin-
kerhoof's speech, 872. Bill amended and passed, 872, 873. Warehouse act,
873. Sub-treasury re-established, 874.
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1848. -ELECTION OF GEN. TAYLOR.
General Taylor and the presidency, 874-876. Nominations of Gen. Cass and Gen.
Taylor, 876-878. Proceedings in the whig convention, 878,879. Allison letter,
879. Utica and Buffalo conventions; Nomination of Van Buren and Adams,
880, 881. Gen. Cass' letter to Nicholson, 881, 882. Gen. Taylor's letters;
Albany meeting; His election, 882, 883.
Gen. Taylor inaugurated; His cabinet, 892. Congress meets; Long contest for
speaker, 893. Message, 894. Mr. Foote's territorial bill, 894. Mr. Clay's
resolutions, 895. Opposed by southern senators, 895-899. Webster's speech,
899-902. California state constitution received; Debate on admission, 902, 903.
Mr. Bell's resolutions; Committee of thirteen; Their report, 903, 904. Defeat
of the "omnibus," 904. Mr. Benton's speech, 905-909. Death of President
Taylor, 910. Mr. Fillmore's accession; His cabinet, 910.
Texas, 910, 911. Passage of compromise bills, 911, 912.
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