_September_ 17, 1789.
_Ordered_, That the President's message be committed to
Messrs. CARROLL, KING, and READ.
FRIDAY, September 18.
The Senate entered on executive business.
Mr. CARROLL, on behalf of the committee appointed yesterday, reported as
follows:
The committee, to whom was referred a message from the President of the
United States of the 17th September, 1789, report:
That the signature of treaties with the Indian nations has
ever been considered as a full completion thereof, and that
such treaties have never been solemnly ratified by either
of the contracting parties, as hath been commonly practised
among the civilized nations of Europe: wherefore the
committee are of opinion that the formal ratification of
the treaty concluded at Fort Harmar on the 9th day of
January, 1789, between Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the
Western Territory, on the part of the United States, and
the sachems and warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa,
Chippewa, Pattiwattima, and Sac Nations, is not expedient
or necessary; and that the resolve of the Senate of the 8th
September, 1789, respecting the said treaty, authorizes the
President of the United States to enjoin a due observance
thereof.
TUESDAY, September 29.
The following communications from the President were received by Mr.
Jay:
_Gentlemen of the Senate:_
His Most Christian Majesty, by a letter dated the 7th of
June last, addressed to the President and members of the
General Congress of the United States of North America,
announces the much lamented death of his son, the Dauphin.
The generous conduct of the French monarch and nation
towards this country renders every event that may affect
his or their prosperity interesting to us; and I shall take
care to assure him of the sensibility with which the United
States participate in the affliction which a loss so much
to be regretted must have occasioned, both to him and to
them.