Friday, January 7.
Mr. Stone, from North Carolina, attended.
The President communicated a letter signed T. Worthington, agent for the State of Ohio, enclosing a copy of the constitution of the said State, and requesting it might be laid before the Senate; and they were read, and ordered to lie for consideration.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion made on the 5th instant for extending the laws of the United States to the State of Ohio, together with the amendment proposed thereon; which amendment was withdrawn; and it was agreed to adopt the motion, amended as follows:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire whether any, and, if any, what Legislative measures may be necessary for admitting the State of Ohio into the Union, or for extending to that State the laws of the United States; and
Ordered, That Messrs. Breckenridge, Morris, and Anderson, be the committee, and that the letter signed T. Worthington, agent for the State of Ohio, laid before the Senate this morning, together with a copy of the constitution of said State, be referred to the same committee, to consider and report thereon.
The bill to carry into effect the several resolutions of Congress for erecting monuments to the memories of the late Generals Wooster, Herkimer, Davidson, and Scriven, was read the third time.
On motion to postpone the further consideration of this bill until the first Monday in December next, it passed in the negative—yeas 9, nays 17, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bradley, Breckenridge, Cocke, Ellery, Nicholas, Sumter, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Clinton, Dayton, T. Foster, D. Foster, Franklin, Hillhouse, Howard, Jackson, Logan, J. Mason, Morris, Olcott, Plumer, Stone, Tracy, Wells, and White.
On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? it was determined in the affirmative—yeas 18, nays 8, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Baldwin, Clinton, Dayton, T. Foster, D. Foster, Franklin, Hillhouse, Howard, Jackson, Logan, J. Mason, Morris, Olcott, Plumer, Stone, Tracy, Wells, and White.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Breckenridge, Cocke, Ellery, Nicholas, Sumter, and Wright.
So it was Resolved, That this bill pass, that it be engrossed, and that the title thereof be "An act to carry into effect the several resolutions of Congress for erecting monuments to the memories of the late Generals Wooster, Herkimer, Davidson, and Scriven."