[1038] James Keith Marshall.
[1039] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., 520, 522.
[1040] At this period the Senate still sat behind closed doors and its proceedings were secret.
[1041] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., 105. This led to one of the most notably dramatic conflicts between the Senate and the press which has occurred during our history. For the prosecution of William Duane, editor of the Aurora, see ib., 105, 113-19, 123-24. It was made a campaign issue, the Republicans charging that it was a Federalist plot against the freedom of the press. (See Aurora, March 13 and 17, 1800.)
[1042] Ib., 146.
[1043] For a review of this astonishing bill, see McMaster, ii, 462-63, and Schouler, i, 475.
[1044] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., 670.
[1045] Marshall's substitute does not appear in the Annals.
[1046] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., 674.
[1047] Ib., 678.