RC (DLC: Madison Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 10 June 1794 and so recorded in SJL.

The stamp act failed in the House of Representatives on 27 May 1794. The bill to raise an army of 10,000 was strangled three days later (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iv, 725–6, 735–9). For the background to the bill for punishing certain crimes, the so-called Neutrality Act of June 1794, see note to Memorial from Edmond Charles Genet, 27 May 1793. A section of this bill that banned selling prizes, a privilege denied by treaty to the enemies of France but still being exercised by that country, was deleted by the House on 2 June 1794 (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iv, 747–57). Madison correctly predicted that the Senate would reject the application by French minister Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet for a million of dollars in advance payment on the American debt to France (same, 129–30; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 24 vols. description ends , xv, 336–7). Col. M.: James Monroe.