7810. SENATE (United States), Executive information and.—
The Secretary of
State, having received a note from Mr.
Strong, as chairman of a Committee of the
Senate, asking a conference with him on the
subject of the late diplomatic nominations to
Paris, London and the Hague, he met them
in the Senate chamber in the evening of the
same day, and stated to them in substance
* * * that he should on all occasions be
ready to give to the Senate, or to any other
branch of the government, whatever information
might properly be communicated, and
might be necessary to enable them to proceed
in the line of their respective offices: that on
the present occasion particularly, as the Senate
had to decide on the fitness of certain
persons to act for the United States at certain
courts, they would be the better enabled to
decide, if they were informed of the state of
our affairs at those courts, and what we had
to do there. [Jefferson then explained the
situation of affairs.]—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 420.
Ford ed., i, 170.
(W.
Jan. 1792)
