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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 78

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promptly, the general assembly voted to loan each of them 150 silver dollars which they were to pay to the state treasury with interest upon their return from the senate. Stanton early showed anti-federalist tendencies. Probably for this reason, he was placed upon no important committees; neither is he given credit for presenting a bill or making a speech during his four years in the senate. In the accounts of Washington's visit to Rhode Island, Joseph Stanton is not mentioned, though Senator Foster is referred to repeatedly!
Before Rhode Island was represented in congress, the resolution for the United States to assume the debts which the several states had incurred during the revolution, had been brought forward. The senators
1. Rhode Island Historical Collections Vol 8 p 23
Hildreth - History of the United States Vol 4 p 20

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77 promptly, the general assembly voted to loan each of them 150 silver dollars which they were to pay to the state treasury with interest upon their return from the senate. Stanton early showed anti-federalist tendencies. Probably for this reason, he was placed upon no important committees; neither is he given credit for presenting a bill or making a speech during his four years in the senate. In the accounts of Washington's visit to Rhode Island, Joseph Stanton is not mentioned, though Senator Foster is referred to repeatedly! Before Rhode Island was represented in congress, the resolution for the United States to assume the debts which the several states had incurred during the revolution, had been brought forward. The senators 1. Rhode Island Historical Collections Vol 8 p 23 Hildreth - History of the United States Vol 4 p 20