Wednesday, June 27.
The Vice President being absent, the Senate proceeded to the choice of a President pro tempore, as the constitution provides, and Theodore Sedgwick was duly elected.
The bill to define more particularly the crime of treason, and to define and punish the crime of sedition, was read the second time.
On motion that this bill be committed, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 15, nays 6, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Chipman, Foster, Goodhue, Hillhouse, Howard, Latimer, Laurance, Lloyd, North, Paine, Read, Sedgwick, Stockton, and Tracy.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Brown, Langdon, Livermore, Martin, and Mason.
Ordered, That this bill be referred to Messrs. Lloyd, Tracy, Stockton, Chipman, and Read, to consider and report thereon to the Senate.