1. A group of manufacturers met in Philadelphia on 8 May to draft a series of resolutions to “reprobate the imposition of an excise upon the infant manufactures of America.” They described the suggested excise as “unjust, impolitic, oppressive, dangerous and unnecessary” and indicated that if such a tax was passed, “the manufacturers of the city of Philadelphia will assemble at the State house … to take into consideration what measures ought to be pursued to express their sympathy for their oppressed brethren, and with a due respect for their obligations as citizens to demonstrate their abhorrance of so unjust, so impolitic and so pernicious a precedent.” These resolutions were presented to the Senate on 12 May. After reading them, the Senate declared them, by a vote of fifteen to nine, “to be disrespectful to the Senate, ordered that the same be dismissed” (Philadelphia Gazette, 12 May; Annals of Congress, description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States [1789–1824], Washington, D.C., 1834–1856; 42 vols. description ends 3d Cong., 1st sess., p. 98).