Monday, December 11.
Mr. Gilman, from the committee, reported the resolution relating to the official correspondence between the Secretary of State and Francis J. Jackson, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, correctly engrossed; and the resolution was read the third time.
On the question, Shall this resolution pass? it was determined in the affirmative—yeas 20, nays 4, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bradley, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Gaillard, German, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Griswold, Lambert, Leib, Mathewson, Meigs, Parker, Pope, Reed, Smith of Maryland, Sumter, and Turner.
Nays.—Messrs. Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, and Pickering.