TY  - GEN
AU  - Maclay,William
TI  - William Maclay journals and note,
KW  - Coxe, Tench,
KW  - Hamilton, Alexander,
KW  - Meredith, Samuel,
KW  - Nicholson, John,
KW  - Peters, Richard,
KW  - Rush, Benjamin,
KW  - Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin,
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - History
KW  - (1st
KW  - 1789-1791)
KW  - House
KW  - Senate
KW  - Bank of the United States (1791-1811)
KW  - Mint of the United States
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Courts
KW  - Debts, Public
KW  - Finance
KW  - National banks (United States)
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1789-1797
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Jurists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Senators, U.S. Congress
KW  - Pennsylvania
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available, in part; no. 18,459; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service
N2  - Journals (1789 April 24-1791 March 3) kept by Maclay as a U.S. senator in the first U.S. Congress and note (1790) to John Nicholson.  Describes legislative and procedural debates relating to such questions as protocol for ceremonies; relations between the House and the Senate; the tariff of 1789; the judiciary bill; compensation for members of Congress; Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben's accounts; assumption of state debts; Alexander Hamilton's report on public credit; the creation of a national bank; and the establishment of a national mint.  Also includes personal observations and accounts of the social life of the members of Congress.  Volume 1 contains drafts of letters to Tench Coxe, Samuel Meredith, Richard Peters, and Benjamin Rush
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009173
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009173.3
ER  -