Thursday, March 6.
A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate had passed the bill, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia," with an amendment; to which they desire the concurrence of this House.
Jonathan Robbins.
The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Message of the President, in the case of Jonathan Robbins, when Mr. Nicholas spoke about three hours[51] in favor of the resolutions introduced by Mr. Livingston, which were negatived—yeas 34, nays 58.
Some discussion then took place on taking up the resolution presented by Mr. Bayard, which was also with the Committee of the whole House. The committee at length rose without entering upon it, and reported their disagreement to the resolutions proposed by Mr. Livingston; and the question whether the committee should have leave to sit again was taken by yeas and nays, and carried—yeas 59, nays 38.
The question was then before the House to agree to the report of the committee in their disagreement with the resolutions.
Mr. Gallatin rose, and entered generally into the argument, in a speech of about two hours, after which the House adjourned.[52]