Montmorin.
The United States of North America.
Tuesday, March 13.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion made yesterday on the Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a letter from his Most Christian Majesty to the United States of America.
A motion was made and seconded to postpone this motion, in order to take up the following:
"Resolved, That the President of the United States be informed that the Senate have received with satisfaction the official intelligence that the King of the French has accepted the constitution presented to him by the National Assembly, and are highly gratified by every event that promotes the freedom and prosperity of the French nation and the happiness and glory of their King."
It passed in the negative; yeas 6, nays 21—as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bassett, Cabot, Ellsworth, King, Strong, and Wingate.
Nays.—Messrs. Bradley, Burr, Butler, Carroll, Dickinson, Few, Foster, Gunn, Hawkins, Henry, Johnston, Izard, Langdon, Lee, Monroe, Morris, Read, Robinson, Rutherford, Stanton, and Sherman.
The original motion, being amended, was agreed to. Whereupon, it was