8546. TREATIES, Power to make.—[further continued].
I had observed, that
wherever the agency of either or both Houses
would be requisite subsequent to a treaty, to
carry it into effect, it would be prudent to
consult them previously, if the occasion admitted:
that thus it was, we were in the
habit of consulting the Senate previously,
when the occasion permitted, because their
subsequent ratification would be necessary;
that there was the same reason for consulting
the lower House previously, where they
were to be called on afterwards, and especially
in a case of money, as they held the purse
strings, and would be jealous of them.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 115.
Ford ed., i, 191.
(April. 1792)
