Saturday, May 3.
Slave Trade.
The House went into committee on the bill to prohibit carrying on the slave trade to any foreign country. The committee rose and reported the bill. On the question, when it should be read a third time, it was carried for to-day. On the question for its passing, a long and warm debate ensued.
Several attempts were made to postpone its passing, but to no effect. At length the question was taken—yeas 67, nays 5, as follows:
Yeas.—Willis Alston, George Baer, Theodorus Bailey, Bailey Bartlett, James A. Bayard, Phanuel Bishop, Jonathan Brace, Robert Brown, Samuel J. Cabell, Matthew Clay, William C. C. Claiborne, John Condit, William Cooper, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Franklin Davenport, John Dennis, William Edmond, Joseph Eggleston, Thomas Evans, Abiel Foster, Dwight Foster, Albert Gallatin, Henry Glenn, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, Edwin Gray, Andrew Gregg, Roger Griswold, William Barry Grove, John A. Hanna, Robert Goodloe Harper, Thomas Hartley, Joseph Heister, William H. Hill, David Holmes, James H. Imlay, Aaron Kitchell, Silas Lee, Michael Leib, Samuel Lyman, Nathaniel Macon, Lewis R. Morris, Peter Muhlenberg, John Nicholas, Abraham Nott, Robert Page, Thomas Pinckney, Jonas Platt, Leven Powell, John Read, Samuel Sewall, William Shepard, John Smilie, John Smith, David Stone, Thomas Sumter, George Thatcher, John Chew Thomas, John Thompson, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, Joseph B. Varnum, Peleg Wadsworth, Robert Waln, and Robert Williams.
Nays.—John Brown, George Dent, Joseph Dickson, Benjamin Huger, and John Rutledge, jr.
And the House adjourned.