Tuesday, April 7.
Messrs. Ellsworth, Paterson, Maclay, Strong, Lee, Bassett, Few, and Wingate, were appointed a committee to bring in a bill for organizing the Judiciary of the United States.
Messrs. Ellsworth, Lee, Strong, Maclay, and Bassett, were appointed a committee to prepare rules for the government of the two Houses in cases of conference, and to take under consideration the manner of electing chaplains, and to confer thereupon with a committee of the House of Representatives.
The same committee were also to prepare rules for conducting the business of the Senate.