Tuesday, January 5, 1802.
Mr. Brown, from the State of Kentucky, attended.
Reporting the Debates.
The President laid before the Senate a letter signed Samuel H. Smith, stating that he was desirous of taking notes of the proceedings of the Senate, in such manner as to render them correct: Whereupon,
Resolved, That any stenographer desirous to take the debates of the Senate on Legislative business, may be admitted for that purpose, at such place within the area of the Senate Chamber as the President may allot:
And, on motion to reconsider the above resolution, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 17, nays 9.
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Breckenridge, Cocke, Dayton, Ellery, Dwight Foster, Hillhouse, Howard, Logan, Jonathan Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Sumter, Tracy, White, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Baldwin, Brown, Chipman, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Nicholas, Sheafe, and Stone.
On motion, to amend the resolution, by adding, after the word stenographer, "He having given bond in the sum of ——, with two sufficient sureties, in the sum of —— each, for his good conduct," it passed in the negative—yeas 10, nays 18, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Chipman, Dayton, Dwight Foster, Hillhouse, Howard, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Sheafe, and Tracy.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Colhoun, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, J. Mason, Nicholas, Stone, Sumter, White, and Wright.
On motion, to agree to the original resolution, amended by adding the words "or note-taker," after the words stenographer, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 16, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Colhoun, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, Stone, Sumter, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Chipman, Dayton, Dwight Foster, Hillhouse, Howard, J. Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Sheafe, Tracy, and White.
So it was Resolved, That any stenographer, or note-taker, desirous of taking the debates of the Senate on Legislative business, may be admitted for that purpose at such place, within the area of the Senate Chamber, as the President shall allot.[63]