Tuesday, July 3.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the bill to define more particularly the crime of treason, and to define and punish the crime of sedition; and having agreed to the report, the bill was amended accordingly; and the question to agree to the third reading of the bill, as amended, was determined in the affirmative—yeas 18, nays 5, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Chipman, Clayton, Foster, Greene, Hillhouse, Howard, Latimer, Laurance, Livermore, Martin, North, Paine, Read, Rutherford, Sedgwick, Stockton, and Tracy.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Brown, Langdon, Mason, and Tazewell.