Mr. Ellsworth, on behalf of the "joint committee of the two Houses, appointed to consider and report whether or not the business begun previous to the late adjournment of Congress, shall now be proceeded in as if no adjournment had taken place," reported.
Ordered, That the consideration of the report be deferred until Monday next.
Monday, January 25.
The Senate proceeded to consider the report of the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed the 20th instant, to wit: "that the business unfinished between the two Houses at the late adjournment ought to be regarded as if it had not been passed upon by either;"
And, on motion that the report of the committee be postponed, it passed in the negative.
And, upon the question to agree to the report of the committee, the yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the Senators present:
Yeas.—Messrs. Butler, Dalton, Ellsworth, Few, Hawkins, Henry, Johnson, King, Schuyler, and Strong—10.
Nays.—Messrs. Bassett, Elmer, Izard, Langdon, Maclay, Morris, Paterson, and Wingate—8.
And so it passed in the affirmative.
And it was