call upon the President for information,411;remarks of Mr. Calhoun on moving a reference to the Committee on Foreign relations,411;despatch of the Secretary of State,412;approved in the Senate,413;allusion to the mission of Lord Ashburton,413.Crittenden, John J., on the slavery resolutions,138;Attorney General,209;reasons for resigning his seat in President Tyler's Cabinet,356;eulogy on Dean,487;Attorney General,768.See Index, vol. I.Cushing, Caleb, attack on the President's message,33;on the organization of the House,215;defends the Administration in the McLeod affair,289;opposes the reduction of certain missions,305;replies to the Whig manifesto against Mr. Tyler,359;report on the third fiscal agent,394;in defence of the Bankrupt Act,504;his nomination rejected in the Senate,629.DDallas, George M., elected Vice-President,625.Danish Sound Dues.—Report of Mr. Webster,362;"the right of Denmark to levy these dues,362;recognized by European governments in several treaties,362;the tariff of 1645 never been revised,362;other charges,363;American commerce,"363;negotiations to obtain the benefit of all reductions recommended,363;remarks,364;success of these recommendations,364;commerce of different nations through the Sound,364.Davis, G., reply to Mr. Cushing,504,506.Davis John W., chosen Speaker,656.Dean, Ezra, on the home squadron,577.Democratic Convention.—A motley assemblage,591;almost all under instructions for Mr. Van Buren,591;Van Buren to be nominated on the first ballot, unless a movement made,591;motion to adopt the two-thirds rule,591;objected to as in violation of a fundamental principle,591;remarks of Morton,591;Butler enforces the majority rule,591;remarks,591;adoption of the rule,592;the ballotings,592;moved that Mr. Van Buren, having received a majority, be declared nominated,592;violent debate,592;division in the Pennsylvania delegation,593;Van Buren withdrawn and Polk nominated,594;a surprise and a marvel to the country,594;nomination and declining of Silas Wright for the Vice-Presidency,594;object of stating these facts,595.Refusal of Mr. Calhoun to submit his name.—His objections,596;the mode of choosing the delegates, and the manner of their giving their votes,596;extract,596;the convention not constituted in conformity to the fundamental articles of the republican creed,596;the working of the constitution on an election,596;Congressional presidential caucuses put down by the will of the people,597;convention system more objectionable than the Congressional caucus,597;the objection to the convention system that States voted which could not aid in the election,598;extract,598;the danger of centralizing the nomination in the hands of a few States by the present mode,598;danger of throwing the nomination into the meshes of a train-band of office-holders and office-seekers,598;any President may now nominate his successor,599;remarks,599.Deposits with the States, retention of.—Terms of the deposit,36;amounts deposited,36;wants of the Treasury,36;the cheat of the bill,36;bill to postpone the fourth instalment,36;its reception,36;remarks of Webster,36;of others,36;proposition of Mr. Buchanan,37;remarks of Mr. Niles,37;proposition carried,37;principle of the deposit act reversed,37;a disposition in the House to treat the act as a contract, and to enforce it,37;remarks of Cushing on this point,37;remarks,38;carried,38;reconsidered and postponed to January 1st, 1839,38;fourth instalment finally relinquished,38;end of this scheme,39;remarks,39.Dickerson, Mahlon, Secretary of the Navy,9.Dictatorshipcharged upon Mr. Clay,359.Distribution of the Public Lands Revenue.—Two hundred millions due from states and corporations to Europe,240;indirect assumption by giving the public lands revenue recommended by President Tyler,241;a violation of the constitution,241;remarks of Calhoun,241;what a time for squandering this patrimony,241;indebtedness,241;state of the national defences,242;picture of taxation in England,242;an open exertion of a foreign interest to influence our legislation manifested,243;remarks of Fernando Wood,243;remarks of Mr. Benton,243;the bill denounced as unconstitutional,244;the constitution was not made to divide money,244;bill bound to pass,245;its features,245;supposed this scheme would be popular,245;passed,245;the course of these distribution bills,246;remarks,247.Disunion movements.—Extract from a South Carolina paper,780;an organ of disunion established at Washington,781;disunion convention at Nashville,781;reasons given by the States for their action,781;an issue of fact taken on their truth,781;declarations of speakers in the South Carolina Legislature,782,783;extracts from public addresses,783;Fourth of July toasts,784;failure of a Southern Congress,784;interpretation of Calhoun's last speech,784;changes in the causes ascribed for disunion,785;inauguration of the slavery agitation, how it was done,786;views of Mr. Madison,786.Douglas, Stephen A., moves to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific,711.Drew, Captain, his report of the capture of the Caroline,279.EElectric Telegraph.—Concerted signals for communicating intelligence,578;first telegraphs,578;idea of using electricity first broached by Dr. Franklin,578;Prof. Morse gave practical application to the idea,578;his progress in the invention,578;application to Congress,578;results as relates to public defence,578.Ewing, Thomas, Secretary of the Treasury,209;states the readiness of President Tyler to sign a second bank bill,343-345;reasons for resigning his seat in President Tyler's cabinet,354;Secretary of the Home Department,737.See Index, vol. I.Exchequer Board.—The plan for a bank proposed by President Tyler,376;Mr. Benton's speech against it,376;"we have gone back beyond the times of Hamilton,376;to those of Walpole and Queen Anne,376;the administration of Walpole, the fountain-head of British woes,377;extract from Smollett's continuation of Hume,377;corporations brought into existence by him,377;further extract,378;contrast with those in the United States,378;corporation credit ruined by the explosions of banks and companies in both countries,379;the origin of our exchequer scheme,379;the manner in which this exchequer system has worked in England, and from its workings there we may judge of its workings here,380;amount of exchequer bills issued,380;the rapid growth and dangerous perversion of such issues,381;the British debt is the fruit of the exchequer system in Great Britain, the same that we are now urged to adopt and under the same circumstances,381;let no one say the exchequer and funding system will not work in the same way in this country,382;if there were a thousand constitutional provisions in favor of paper money, I should still be against it on account of its own inherent baseness and vice,383;remarks of Webster on hard money in 1816,383;felicitation of the Senator from Virginia over these exchequer bills,384;remark of Hamilton against Government paper money,385;division of the Whigs,385;the Tyler-Webster Whigs for Government banking,385;what are the pretexts for this flagrant attempt? 385;distress still the staple of all whig speeches made here,386;action of the Biddle King Bank,386;was not all distress to cease when the democracy were turned out?387;the cry is distress! and the remedy a national poultice of lamp-black and rags; a national currency of uniform value, and universal circulation is what modern whigs demand, meaning all the while a national currency of paper money,388;specie acquisitions during the last twenty years,388;Gallatin on the quantity of gold and silver in Europe and America,388;points upon which the statesman's attention should be fixed,388;the quantity of paper money per head which any nation can use,389;the facility with which any industrious country can supply itself with a hard money currency,390;the currency of Cuba,390;Holland and Cuba have the best currencies in the world,391;no abundant currency, low interest, and facility of loans except in hard money countries,391;the soldiers of Mark Antony,391;people believe the old continental bills are to be revived and restored to circulation by the Federal Government,392;proposition to supply the administration with these old bills, instead of putting out a new emission,393;advantages of the old bills,"393.The measure immediately taken up in either branch of Congress,394;a select committee of the House,394;report,394;extracts,394;the measure recommended for adoption,394;the bill,395;died a natural death,395;committee of the Senate discharged from the consideration of the measure,395.Expenditures of the Government.—Tendency of all governments to increase their expenses, and it should be the care of all statesmen to restrain them,198;economy a principle in the political faith of the Republican party,198;gradual increase,198;report of the Secretary on the ordinary and extraordinary payments and the public debts,199;three branches of public expenditure,199;evils of extravagance,199;room for reduction,199;speech of Senator Benton,200;"character and contents of the tables reported by the Secretary of the Treasury,200;expenses of 1824 and of 1839 compared,200;expenses of 1824,201;expenses of 1889,201;further remarks on the statements,"202.The civil list, its expenditures,397;extract from Calhoun's speech,397;"the contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress,398;increased expense of collecting the duties on imports,"398;facts to be gleaned from these statements,398.Expense of the Navy.—The naval policy of the United States a question of party division from the origin of parties,452;the policy of a great navy developed with great vigor under Mr. Tyler,452;recommendations of the new Secretary,452;remarks of Mr. Calhoun,452;"aggregate expense of the British navy in 1840,452;its force,453; force of our navy,453;the great increase proposed in the navy over last year is at the head of the objects of retrenchment,453;expenses of the government of three classes,453;estimates,"453;remarks of Mr. Woodbury,454;extract,454;present naval establishment a war rate,455;limitations of the act of 1806,455;increase carried,455;remarks of Mr. Benton,456."The attempt made in 1822 to limit and fix a naval peace establishment,456;actual state of the navy in 1841 and 1842,456;extract from Bayard's report,456;examine the plan in its parts, and see the enormity of its proportions,457;the cost of each gun afloat, and the number of men to work it,457;I am asked how I get at these $9,000 cost for each gun afloat,458;correctness of the statement,458;Clay's resolutions,459;it is an obligation of imperious duty on Congress to arrest the present state of things, to turn back the establishment to what it was a year ago,"459.Remarks of Mr. Merriweather,482;no hostility to the service led to a desire to reduce the pay of the navy,482;pay at different periods,482,483;fifty thousand dollars required to defray the expenses of court-martials the present year,483;further points on which reduction can be made, stated,484.Annual appropriation considered,507;amendment moved to reduce number of master-mates,507;remarks of Cave Johnson,507;"should have a peace establishment for the navy as well as the army,507;table of the British service,507;expenditures,508;squadrons,"508.Principle of a naval force establishment nowhere developed,508;the amount of danger must be considered to measure the amount of a naval peace establishment,508;remarks of Mr. Hamlin on abuses in the navy,509;enormous increase in the number of officers of the navy,509;items of extravagance,509;Hale's remarks on the abuses in the navy expenditures, and the irresponsibility of officers,509;excess of navy-yards,509;no results attended the movement,509.See Index, vol. I."Experiment," the staple word of distress oratory,16.Explosion of the Great Gun.—Excursion on board the Princeton,567;the company,567;the day,567;the guns of the vessel,567;trip down the Potomac,567;the firing,568;the President called back as he was about to witness it,568;the explosion,568;the fatal results,568;the effect on Col. Benton of the concussion,569.FFeatherstonhaugh, Mr., remarks on the results of the Ashburton Treaty,423.Ficklin, Orlando, on the appropriation for the military academy,468.Fillmore, Millard, on the veto of the provisional tariff,415;candidate for Vice-President,722;elected,723;his inauguration as President,767;first official act,767;public funeral of Gen. Taylor,763.Florida Armed Occupation Bill.—Armed occupation, with land to the occupant, is the true way of settling and holding a conquered country,167;fashion to depreciate the services of the troops in Florida,168;besides their military labors, our troops have done an immensity of service of a different kind,168;the military have done their duty, and deserved well of their country,169;the massacre on the banks of the Calvosahatchee,169;the plan of Congress has been tried and ended disastrously,169;we have to choose between granting the means, or doing nothing,170;Florida cannot be abandoned,170;it is the armed settler alone whose presence announces dominion,170;this is the most efficient remedy,171;the peninsula is a desolation,171.Florida Indian War.—SeeIndian War.Florida and Iowa, admission of,660;admitted by a single bill,660;arose from the antagonistic provisions on the subject of Slavery,660;free and slave States thus numerically even,660.See Index, vol. I.Foreign Missions, Reduction of.—Moved to strike from the appropriation bill the salaries of some missions,305;question how far the House had a right to interfere with these missions, and control them by withholding compensation,305;"the appointment of ministers gives them certain vested rights,"305;idea of vested rights scouted,306;time to inquire into their propriety when voting the salaries,306;remarks of Mr. Ingersoll,306;resolution of Mr. Adams to reduce the expenditures by reducing the number of ministers,306;the subject should be pursued, and the object accomplished,306;many branches belong to the inquiry,306.Forsyth, John, Secretary of State,9;decease of,659;career of honor,659;connection with Crawford,659;rank as a debater,659;in social life,659.Forward, Walter, Secretary of the Treasury,356.Franklin, Walter S., elected Clerk,29.Frazer, Mr., on the nomination of Van Buren,593.Frelinghuysen, Theodore, candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1844,625.French, B. B., chosen Clerk of the House,656;chosen clerk,703.Fremont, John C.—His first expedition to the Rocky Mountains,478;how it came about,478;Senator Linn moves the printing of the report of this expedition,478;remarks upon the objects and results of the expedition478-479.Second Expedition.—Its grand results,579;not an offspring of the Government,579;countermanded after it began,579;his wife retains the countermanding order, and the expedition goes forward,579;her conduct approved by her father,579;occasion of countermanding the expedition,579;object of the expedition,580;maps up to that time,580;crossing the mountains,580;progress south,581;discoveries,581;return of Fremont,581.Third Expedition.—When commenced,688;the line of observation,688;start for Oregon,689;overtaken by two men,689;a messenger from the Government,689;turns towards California,689;the night of the interview,690;attack of savages,690;succeeding events,690;arrival in the Valley of Sacramento,691;three great operations going on,691;deputation of American settlers,691;approach of Castro,691;California secured as an independent country,691;efforts of Great Britain to secure the country,692;how the prize escaped them,692;remarks,692.Court Martialled.—Brought home a prisoner from his third expedition,715;speech of Lieut. Emory,715;his offence in the eyes of officers of the army,716;specifications of mutiny,716;justice to Gen. Kearney,716;the gravamen of the charge,717;proof of his innocence derived from the journals of Kearney's officers,717;statement of Carson,718;result of the trial,718;course of the President,719;resignation of Fremont,719.Fourth Expedition.—Undertaken at his own expense,719;the line of exploration,719;the march on foot,719;error of the guide,720;terrors of their situation,720;extricated by the aid of Indians,720;a new outfit obtained,721;march,721;meeting hostile Indians,721;subsequent explorations,721.GGallatin, Albert, on the quantity of gold and silver in Europe and America,388.See Index, vol. I.Gardiner, Mr., killed on board the Princeton,568.Gilmer, Thomas W., against the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,258;