Tuesday, March 18.
Breach of Privilege.
The Senate took into consideration the report of the Committee of Privileges, on the measures that will be necessary to adopt in relation to a publication in the newspaper, printed in the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday morning, the 19th of February last, called the General Advertiser, or Aurora; and,
On motion to adopt the first resolution reported, it was agreed to divide the motion, and that the question should be taken on the following words:
Resolved, That the said publication contains assertions, and pretended information, respecting the Senate, and the Committee of the Senate, and their proceedings, which are false, defamatory, scandalous, and malicious; tending to defame the Senate of the United States, and to bring them into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States.
And on the question, to adopt this part of the resolution, reported by the committee, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 20, nays 8, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Bingham, Brown, Chipman, Dayton, Dexter, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Laurance, Livermore, Lloyd, Paine, Read, Ross, Schureman, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Baldwin, Bloodworth, Cocke, Franklin, Langdon, Marshall, Mason, and Nicholas.