William Maclay United States Senator From Pennsylvania 1789 1791
William Maclay United States Senator From Pennsylvania 1789 1791
Lewis R Lewis Reifsneider Harley
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After the adoption of a few amendments, the measure was passed, and on July 4 it was signed by the President. Among the most interesting pages of Maclay's Journal are those dealing with the funding and assumption of the debts, and the location of the seat of government. These measures were carried through by means of a compromise, which provided that if the Southern members in Congress would vote for assumption, the national government should be removed from New York to Philadelphia for ten yea...rs, and after that to a city to be built on the Potomac. Maclay relates in a graphic man- ner the struggle over these measures in the Senate. He was interested in the question of the seat of government several weeks before Congress assembled. On March 13, 1789, he wrote to Judge Yeates, of Lancas- ter : " Sir, I consider it almost certain that the permanent residence of Congress will be agitated at the ensuing session, desirous as I am to bring forward information from every part of Pennsylvania to throw light on this important subject.
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