The PRESIDENT _pro tempore of the Senate_.
_Ordered_, That the foregoing letter be referred to Messrs. MORRIS,
DAYTON, and ROSS, to report thereon.
_Ordered_, That the committee who were appointed to take into
consideration the letter from the President elect of the United States,
of this day, be discharged.
A motion was made as follows:
The President elect of the United States having informed
the Senate that he proposes to take the oath which the
constitution prescribes to the President of the United
States before he enters on the execution of his office, on
Wednesday, the 4th instant, at 12 o'clock, in the Senate
Chamber:
_Ordered_, That the Secretary communicate that information
to the House of Representatives; that seats be provided for
such members of the House of Representatives and such of
the public Ministers as may think proper to attend; and
that the gallery be opened to the citizens of the United
States.
And the motion was agreed to.
TUESDAY, March 3.
_Mausoleum for Washington._
The Senate took into consideration the amendments to the amendments on
the bill to erect a mausoleum for GEORGE WASHINGTON; and on motion to
postpone the further consideration of this bill until the first Monday
in December next, it passed in the affirmative--yeas 14, nays 13, as
follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Brown, Cocke,
Gunn, Hindman, J. Mason, Morris, Pinckney, Read, Ross,
Tracy, and Wells.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bloodworth, Chipman, Dayton, T. Foster,
Franklin, Greene, Hillhouse, Howard, Langdon, Livermore,
Marshall, Nicholas, and Paine.
The bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Navy from being concerned in
trade or commerce, was read the third time and passed.
Mr. NICHOLAS, from the committee on the bill providing for a Naval Peace
Establishment, reported amendments, which, being agreed to, the bill was
read the third time by unanimous consent, and passed.
Mr. MORRIS, from the committee appointed to wait on the President elect
of the United States, and present him with the answer of the Senate to
his Address on taking leave, communicated his reply, which was read as
follows:
GENTLEMEN: I receive with due sensibility the
congratulations of the Senate on being called to the first
Executive office of our Government; and I accept, with
great satisfaction, their assurances of support in whatever
regards the honor and interest of our country. Knowing no
other object in the discharge of my public duties, their
confidence in my future conduct, derived from past events,
shall not be disappointed, so far as my judgment may enable
me to discern those objects.
The approbation they are so good as to express of my
conduct in the chair of the Senate, is highly gratifying to
me; and I pray them to accept my humble thanks for these
declarations of it.