The Senate having returned to the Senate Chamber, adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 15.
_Ordered_, That Messrs. ELLSWORTH, HAWKINS, and PATERSON, be a committee
to bring in a bill, in addition to "An act to establish the Judicial
Courts of the United States."
WEDNESDAY, January 20.
On motion,
_Resolved_, That Messrs. ELLSWORTH, MACLAY, and HENRY, be a
committee to confer with such committee as may be appointed
on the part of the House of Representatives, to consider
and report whether or not the business began previous to
the late adjournment of Congress, shall now be proceeded in
as if no adjournment had taken place.
_Ordered_, That a message be sent to the House of Representatives,
acquainting them herewith, and requesting the appointment of a similar
committee on their part.
THURSDAY, January 21.
ROBERT MORRIS from Pennsylvania, attended.
A message from the House of Representatives informed the
Senate that they had agreed to the appointment of a
committee on their part, consisting of Messrs. SHERMAN,
THATCHER, HARTLEY, WHITE, and JACKSON, to confer with the
committee appointed on the part of the Senate, to consider
and report whether or not the business begun previous to
the late adjournment of Congress, shall now be proceeded in
as if no adjournment had taken place.
FRIDAY, January 22.
Mr. ELLSWORTH, on behalf of the "joint committee of the two Houses,
appointed to consider and report whether or not the business begun
previous to the late adjournment of Congress, shall now be proceeded in
as if no adjournment had taken place," reported.
_Ordered_, That the consideration of the report be deferred until Monday
next.
MONDAY, January 25.
The Senate proceeded to consider the report of the joint committee of
the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed the 20th instant, to
wit: "that the business unfinished between the two Houses at the late
adjournment ought to be regarded as if it had not been passed upon by
either;"
And, on motion that the report of the committee be postponed, it passed
in the negative.
And, upon the question to agree to the report of the committee, the yeas
and nays being required by one-fifth of the Senators present:
_Yeas._--Messrs. Butler, Dalton, Ellsworth, Few, Hawkins,
Henry, Johnson, King, Schuyler, and Strong--10.
_Nays._--Messrs. Bassett, Elmer, Izard, Langdon, Maclay,
Morris, Paterson, and Wingate--8.
And so it passed in the affirmative.