OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856. FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. VOL. IV. PUBLIC NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY. 1857. Checked ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. LENOX L'ORAS K 18 TENTH CONGRESS.-SECOND SESSION. BEGUN AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 7, 1808. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE. MONDAY, November 7, 1808. part, to wait on the President of the United Conformably to the act, passed the last ses-States and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled. sion, entitled "An act to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress," the second session of the tenth Congress commenced this day; and the Senate assembled at the city of Washington. PRESENT: GEORGE CLINTON, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. NICHOLAS GILMAN and NAHUM PARKER, from New Hampshire. TIMOTHY PICKERING, from Massachusetts. JAMES HILLHOUSE and CHAUNCEY GOODRICH, from Connecticut. BENJAMIN HOWLAND and ELISHA MATHEWSON, from Rhode Island. STEPHEN R. Bradley and JONATHAN ROBINSON, from Vermont. SAMUEL L. MITOHILL and JOHN SMITH, from New York. JOHN CONDIT and AARON KITCHEL, from New Jersey. SAMUEL MACLAY, from Pennsylvania. SAMUEL WHITE, from Delaware. WILLIAM B. GILES, from Virginia. JAMES TURNER, from North Carolina. THOMAS SUMTER and JOHN GAILLARD, from South Carolina. WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, from Georgia. BUCKNER THRUSTON and JOHN POPE, from Kentucky. DANIEL SMITH, from Tennessee. EDWARD TIFFIN, from Ohio. JAMES LLOYD, jun., appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, to supply the place of John Quincy Adams, resigned, took his seat in the Senate, and produced his credentials, which were read, and the oath prescribed by law was administered to him. Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate is assembled and ready to proceed to business; and that Messrs. BRADLEY and POPE be a committee on the part of the Senate, together with such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representatives on their A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that a quorum of the House is assembled and ready to proceed to business; and that the House had appointed a committee on their part, jointly with the committee appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled. Resolved, That JAMES MATHERS, Sergeant-atArms and Doorkeeper to the Senate, be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ one assistant and two horses, for the purpose of performing such services as are usually required by the Doorkeeper to the Senate; and that the sum of twenty-eight dollars be allowed him weekly for that purpose, to commence with, and remain during the session, and for twenty days after. On motion, by Mr, BRADLEY, Resolved, That two Chaplains, of different denominations, be appointed to Congress during the present session, one by each House, who shall interchange weekly. Mr. BRADLEY reported, from the joint committee, that they had waited on the President of the United States, agreeably to order, and that the President of the United States informed the committee that he would make a communication to the two Houses at 12 o'clock to-morrow. TUESDAY, November 8. SAMUEL SMITH and PHILIP REED, from the State of Maryland, attended. The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: It would have been a source, fellow-citizens, of much gratification, if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that the belligerent nations, whose disregard of neutral rights has been so destructive to our commerce, had become awakened to the duty and true policy of revoking |