"_Resolved_, That the Honorable William Blount, and William
Cocke, Esquires, who have produced credentials of being
duly elected Senators for the State of Tennessee, be
admitted to take the oath necessary for their
qualification, and their seats accordingly;"
_Ordered_, That a paper, purporting to be the credentials of Mr. BLOUNT
and Mr. COCKE, be read.
And, on the question to agree to the resolution, it passed in the
negative--yeas 10, nays 11, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Bloodworth, Brown, Burr, Butler, Gunn,
Langdon, Martin, Robinson, Tattnall, and Tazewell.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bingham, Bradford, Foster, Latimer,
Livermore, Marshall, Potts, Read, Ross, Rutherford, and
Trumbull.
A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate, that
the House, having finished the business before them, are about to
adjourn to the first Monday in December next.
Mr. BUTLER, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES, and notify him that, unless he had any further
communications to make to them, they were ready to adjourn, reported,
that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES had no further communication to
make, except the nomination of certain persons to execute the laws
passed the present session.
After the consideration of the Executive business, the PRESIDENT
adjourned the Senate to the first Monday in December next.