OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856. FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. VOL. III. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY. 1857. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. EIGHTH CONGRESS.-FIRST SESSION. BEGUN AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 17, 1803. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,-THOMAS JEFFERSON. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.* MONDAY, October 17, 1803. The first session of the eighth Congress, conformably to the Constitution of the United States, commenced at the city of Washington, agreeably to the Proclamation of the President of the United States for that purpose; and the Senate assembled on this day. PRESENT: SIMEON OLCOTT and WILLIAM PLUMER, from New Hampshire; TIMOTHY PICKERING, from Massachusetts; JAMES HILLHOUSE and URIAH TRAOY, from Connecticut; CHRISTOPHER ELLERY and SAMUEL I. POTTER, from Rhode Island; STEPHEN R. BRADLEY and ISRAEL SMITH, from Vermont; DE WITT CLINTON and THEODORUS BAILEY, from New York; JONATHAN DAYTON and JOHN CONDIT, from New Jersey; GEORGE LOGAN and SAMUEL MACLAY, from Pennsylvania; WILLIAM HILL WELLS and SAMUEL WHITE, from Delaware; ROBERT WRIGHT and SAMUEL SMITH, from Maryland; JOHN TAYLOR and WILSON CAREY NICHOLAS, from Virginia; JOHN BROWN and JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, from Kentucky ; JESSE FRANKLIN and DAVID STONE, from North Carolina; JOSEPH ANDERSON and WILLIAM COOKE, from Tennessee; ABRAHAM BALDWIN, from Georgia; and LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. Few Hampshire-Simeon Olcott, William Plumer. Vermont.-S. R. Bradley, Israel Smith. Massachusetts-Jonathan Mason, Timothy Pickering. Phode Island.-Christopher Ellery, Samuel I. Potter. Connecticut.-James Hillhouse, Uriah Tracy. New York-De Witt Clinton, Theodorus Bailey. New Jersey-Jonathan Dayton, John Condit. Pennsylvania.-George Logan, Samuel Maclay. proceeded to the election of a President, pro tem., as the constitution provides, and the ballots being collected and counted, the whole number was found to be twenty-nine, of which fifteen make a majority. Mr. BROWN had 24, Mr. BALDWIN 2, Mr. DAYTON 2, and Mr. PIOK ERING 1. Consequently, the Honorable JOHN BROWN was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore. The credentials of the following Senators were severally read, to wit: Of JOSEPH ANDERSON, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Tennessee; of THEODORUS BAILEY, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of New York; of JAMES HILLHOUSE, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Connecticut; of SAMUEL MACLAY, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania; of SAMUEL I. POTTER, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island; of ISRAEL SMITH, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Vermont; of SAMUEL WHITE, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Delaware; for the term of six years from and after the third day of March last, respectively: also, of THOMAS WORTHINGTON, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Ohio; of JOHN ČONDIT, appointed a Senator by the Executive of the State of New Jersey; of JOHN TAYLOR, appointed a Senator by the Executive of the State of Virginia, in place of S. T. Mason, deceased; of TIMOTHY PICKERING, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, in the place of Dwight Foster, resigned; and the oath required by law was, by the PRESIDENT, administered to them respectively. The oath was also administered to SAMUEL Delaware.-William H. Wells, Samuel White. |