Tuesday, March 3.
Mausoleum for Washington.
The Senate took into consideration the amendments to the amendments on the bill to erect a mausoleum for George Washington; and on motion to postpone the further consideration of this bill until the first Monday in December next, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 14, nays 13, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Brown, Cocke, Gunn, Hindman, J. Mason, Morris, Pinckney, Read, Ross, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Bloodworth, Chipman, Dayton, T. Foster, Franklin, Greene, Hillhouse, Howard, Langdon, Livermore, Marshall, Nicholas, and Paine.
The bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Navy from being concerned in trade or commerce, was read the third time and passed.
Mr. Nicholas, from the committee on the bill providing for a Naval Peace Establishment, reported amendments, which, being agreed to, the bill was read the third time by unanimous consent, and passed.
Mr. Morris, from the committee appointed to wait on the President elect of the United States, and present him with the answer of the Senate to his Address on taking leave, communicated his reply, which was read as follows:
Gentlemen: I receive with due sensibility the congratulations of the Senate on being called to the first Executive office of our Government; and I accept, with great satisfaction, their assurances of support in whatever regards the honor and interest of our country. Knowing no other object in the discharge of my public duties, their confidence in my future conduct, derived from past events, shall not be disappointed, so far as my judgment may enable me to discern those objects.
The approbation they are so good as to express of my conduct in the chair of the Senate, is highly gratifying to me; and I pray them to accept my humble thanks for these declarations of it.
TH. JEFFERSON.
March, 3, 1801.