remarks of Mr. Benton,34;extracts,34;neither a paper money bill nor a bill to lay the foundation for a national debt,34;treasury notes for circulation and treasury notes for investment,34;their distinctive features,34;such issues of dangerous tendency,34;passed the Senate,35;in the House notes reduced to $50,35;in the Senate motion to restore amount to $100, remarks of Mr. Clay in favor,35;charged as being a government bank,35;remarks of Mr. Webster,36;motion lost,36.First regular session,65;the message,65;confined to home affairs,65;resurrection notes,65;extract from the message on this point,66;graduated prices recommended for the public lands,66;a prospective pre-emption act,66;extract,66;subsequently adopted,67.Message at first session of the twenty-sixth Congress,162;extracts,162;other motives than a want of confidence under which the banks seek to justify themselves,162;dangerous nature of the whole banking system, from its chain of mutual dependence and connection,162;a financial crisis commencing in London extends immediately to our great Atlantic cities,162;extracts,163;the disconnection produced by the delinquencies of the banks,163;beneficial operation of the pre-emption system,163;effect of renewed negotiations with the Florida Indians,164.Conclusion,207;measures of his administration, and their effect,207;general harmony,207;no offence given to North or South,207;bank suspensions,207;insurrection in Canada,207;case of the Caroline,208;increase of votes in his favor over the first election,208;candidate for the Presidency,203;candidate for President,723.Voteon the hard money clause of the independent treasury bill,124;do. on the bill,125;on Clay's substitute slavery resolution,137;on the rule relative to abolition petitions,153;on the Speaker,161;relative to distribution of the land revenue,172;on the repeal of the Sub-treasury,220;on the bankrupt bill,229;on the distribution bill,245,246;on the hour rule in the House,247;on the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,259-262;on the motion to repeal the pension act of 1837,267;on the action of the Administration in the McLeod affair,291;on making salt free,316;on the vetoed bank bill,328;on the amendments to the second bill,338,339,340;on short exchange bills,341;on the resolutions of the Senate on the protest of Gen. Jackson as applied to the protest of President Tyler,419;on the increase of the navy,455;on the Oregon settlement bill,477;on the motion to give notice to terminate the joint occupation of Oregon,625;on the resolution admitting Texas,635;to terminate the joint occupation of Oregon,674;of the Senate on the request of the President, for advice relative to Oregon,676;on the Oregon treaty,676;on Douglass's motion to extend the Missouri compromise line,711;on the resolution of Mr. Clay relative to New Mexico,744;on the admission of California,769.WWalker, Percy, on the disturbance in the Senate gallery,352.Walker, Robert J., Secretary of the Treasury,650.War with Mexico: its cause.—Calhoun the author of the war,639;the Senator from South Carolina in his effort to throw the blame of the war upon the President, goes no further back in search for causes than the march on the Rio Grande,640;the cession of Texas to Spain is the beginning point in the chain of causes that led to this war,640;direct proofs of the Senator's authorship of the war,641;ten years ago he was for plunging us in instant war,641;the peace of the country was then saved, but it was a respite only,641;Congress of 1836 would not admit Texas,642;the letter of the Texan minister reveals the true state of the Texan question in January, 1844, and the conduct of all parties in relation to it,642;the promise was clear and explicit to lend the army and navy to the President of Texas to fight the Mexicans, while they were at peace with us,643;detachments sent to the frontier,643;honor required us to fight for Texas if we intrigued her into a war,643;the treaty of annexation was signed, and in signing it the Secretary knew that he had made war with Mexico,644;the alternative resolutions adopted by Congress in the last days of the session of 1844-45, and in the last moments of Mr. Tyler's administration,645;instructions to newspapers,647;authorship of the war,647;further remarks,649.Commencement of hostilities,679;effect of the hostilities,679;country fired for war,679;Calhoun opposed to the war, although his conduct had produced it,679;claims upon Mexico and speculations in Texas land scrip were a motive with some to urge on a war,680;it was said the war would close in ninety or one hundred and twenty days,680;an intrigue laid for peace before the war was declared,680;the return of the exiled chief Santa Anna,680;a secret that leaked out,680;the manner,680;explanation of the President,681;two millions asked of Congress as a means to terminate the war,681;extract from the confidential message,681;this intrigue for peace a part of the war,682;an infinitely silly conception,682;consequences of Santa Anna's return,682.Conquest of New Mexico.—Conquered without firing a gun,683;how it was done,683;details,683;the after-clap,683;cause and results of the insurrection,683;career of Magaffin,683;his services and final escape,684;his reward, and the manner of obtaining it,684.Doniphan's Expedition.—Address of Col. Benton to the returning volunteers,684;the wonderful march,685;meeting and parting with savage tribes,685;the march upon Chihuahua,685;its capture,686;the starting point of a new expedition,686;the march to Monterey,686;the march to Matamoras,687;the expedition made without Government orders,687;advice ofSenator Benton to the President,687;not a regular bred officer among them,688.Senator Benton looks over the President's message at the latter's request,693;objects to the recommendation to cease the active prosecution of the war,693;reasons of the objection,693;the project had been adopted in the cabinet,693;Mr. Benton meets with the cabinet,693;cabinet obstinate,693;the President overrules them,693;reading of the message in the Senate,694;Mr. Calhoun mystified,694;Mr. Calhoun's proposed line of occupation,694.Webster, Daniel, his reception in New York,12;his speech at New York,13;on the Treasury note bill,33;on the deposit act,36;on bank resumption,84;Secretary of State,209;his letter to Senators Choate and Bates respecting President Tyler's views of the second bank bill,348;reasons for not resigning his seat in President Tyler's Cabinet,356;retires from Tyler's Cabinet,562;the progress of the scheme for the annexation of Texas,562;Webster an obstacle to the negotiation,562;a middle course fallen upon to get rid of him,562;resigns,562;on extending the constitution to territories,730,731;Secretary of State,768.White, Hugh Lawson, his resignation,184;occasion,184;birth and career,184;closing of his career,184;his death,184;eulogium,185;reason of his losing favor at home,185;influence upon Mrs. White,185;remark of a member of Congress,185;remarks,185.Whig.—Adoption of the name by a party in this country,314;manifesto against Mr. Tyler,357.Wickliffe, Charles A., Postmaster,356;Postmaster General,569.Wilkins, William, Secretary at War,569.Williams, Lewis, decease of,396;character,396;Adams's motion of funeral honors to his memory,396;Clay's motion of funeral honors to his memory in the Senate,396;the father of the House,397.Williams, Ruel, moves to repeal the pension act of 1837,266.Wilmot Proviso.—Measures taken to obtain peace with Mexico,694;three millions asked for to negotiate a boundary and acquire additional territory,694;Wilmot proviso moved,695;an unnecessary measure,695;answer no purpose but to bring on a slavery agitation,695;seized upon by Mr. Calhoun,695;slavery agitation a game played by the abolitionists on one side, and disunionists on the other,695;letter of Mr. Calhoun,695;proviso not passed,696.Winthrop, Robert C., chosen Speaker,703;raises the question of reception of the protest of Southern Senators on the admission of California,770.Wise, Henry A., his nomination rejected in the Senate,630.Woodbury, Levi, Secretary of the Treasury,9;on the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,260;on naval expenditures,454.Wright, Silas, a sacrifice of feeling to become Governor,626;refuses a seat in the Cabinet,650.Decease of,700;its suddenness,701;his career of honor,701;his mind,701;his port in debate,701;his prominent trait,701;his candor,701;his integrity,701;temper,702;manners,702;mode of life,702.YYoung, William, on the nomination of Van Buren,598.