Whereupon the following motion was made by Mr. BRADLEY:
“_Ordered_, That Samuel Chase file his answer, with the
Secretary of the Senate, to the several articles of impeachment
exhibited against him, by the House of Representatives, on or
before the ---- day of ----.”
On motion, by Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, to fill the blank with the words “the
fourth day of February next,” the yeas and nays being taken, it passed in
the affirmative--yeas 22, nays 8, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Brown,
Condit, Ellery, Franklin, Giles, Howland, Jackson, Logan,
Maclay, Mitchill, Moore, Smith of Maryland, Smith of New York,
Smith of Ohio, Smith of Vermont, Sumter, Worthington, and
Wright.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bradley, Dayton, Hillhouse, Olcott, Pickering,
Plumer, Tracy, and White.
_Ordered_, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives, and
Samuel Chase, thereof.
[Between this day, and that assigned for receiving the answer of Mr.
Chase, the Senate Chamber was fitted up in a style of appropriate
elegance. Benches, covered with crimson, on each side, and in a line
with the chair of the President, were assigned to the members of the
Senate. On the right and in front of the chair, a box was assigned to the
Managers, and on the left a similar box to Mr. Chase and his counsel, and
chairs allotted to such friends as he might introduce. The residue of
the floor was occupied with chairs for the accommodation of the members
of the House of Representatives; and with boxes for the reception of the
foreign Ministers, and civil and military officers of the United States.
On the right and left of the chair, at the termination of the benches
of the members of the Court, boxes were assigned to stenographers.
The permanent gallery was allotted to the indiscriminate admission of
spectators. Below this gallery, and above the floor of the House, a
new gallery was raised, and fitted up with peculiar elegance, intended
primarily for the exclusive accommodation of ladies. But this feature
of the arrangement, made by the Vice President, was at an early period
of the trial abandoned, it having been found impracticable to separate
the sexes! At the termination of this gallery, on each side, boxes
were specially assigned to ladies attached to the families of public
characters. The preservation of order was devolved on the Marshal of the
District of Columbia, who was assisted by a number of deputies.]