_Resolved_, That the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES be
requested to instruct the proper law officer to commence
and carry on a prosecution against William Duane, editor of
the newspaper called the Aurora, for certain false,
defamatory, scandalous, and malicious publications, in the
said newspaper, on the 19th of February last past, tending
to defame the Senate of the United States, and to bring
them into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against
them the hatred of the good people of the United States:
It passed in the affirmative--yeas 13, nays 4, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Bingham, Dayton, Foster, Greene, Gunn,
Latimer, Laurance, Livermore, Morris, Read, Ross, Tracy,
and Wells.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bloodworth, Brown, Cocke, Franklin.
_Ordered_, That the Secretary lay an attested copy of the foregoing
resolution before the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
_Resolved_, That the thanks of the Senate of the United States be
presented to the Commissioners of the city and county of Philadelphia,
for the convenient and elegant accommodations furnished by them for the
use of the Senate, during the residence of the National Government in
the city; and that the President of the Senate be requested to convey
this resolution in a letter to the said Commissioners.
The PRESIDENT, agreeably to the joint resolution of the 12th instant,
adjourned the Senate, to meet again on the third Monday of November
next, as the law provides.