NEW YORK, _August 6, 1789_.
FRIDAY, August 21.
The Senate entered on executive business. They proceeded to consider the
report made by Mr. IZARD, yesterday, as follows:
The committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States,
and confer with him on the mode of communication proper to be pursued
between him and the Senate, in the formation of treaties, and making
appointments to offices, reported:
Which report was agreed to. Whereupon,
_Resolved_, That when nominations shall be made in writing
by the President of the United States to the Senate, a
future day shall be assigned, unless the Senate unanimously
direct otherwise, for taking them into consideration; that
when the President of the United States shall meet the
Senate in the Senate Chamber, the President of the Senate
shall have a chair on the floor, be considered as at the
head of the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the
President of the United States; that when the Senate shall
be convened by the President of the United States to any
other place, the President of the Senate and Senators shall
attend at the place appointed. The Secretary of the Senate
shall also attend to take the minutes of the Senate.
That all questions shall be put by the President of the
Senate, either in the presence or absence of the President
of the United States; and the Senators shall signify their
assent or dissent by answering _viva voce_, aye or no.[8]
Another message was received from the President, viz:
_Gentlemen of the Senate:_
The President of the United States will meet the Senate, in
the Senate Chamber, at half-past eleven o'clock to-morrow,
to advise with them on the terms of the treaty to be
negotiated with the Southern Indians.