Monday, March 24.
Kensey Johns appeared and produced his credentials of an appointment by the Governor of the State of Delaware as a Senator for the United States, which were read.
Whereupon, it was moved that they be referred to the consideration of the Committee of Elections before the said Kensey Johns should be permitted to qualify, who are directed to report thereon; and it passed in the affirmative—yeas 13, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bradley, Brown, Burr, Edwards, Gunn, Hawkins, Jackson, Langdon, Livermore, Martin, Monroe, Robinson, and Taylor.
Nays.—Messrs Bradford, Cabot, Ellsworth, Foster, Frelinghuysen, Izard, Mitchell, Morris, Potts, Rutherford, Strong, and Vining.
The Senate resumed the second reading of the bill to authorize the President of the United States, in certain cases, to alter the place for holding a session of Congress.