Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Brown, Langdon, Mason, and Tazewell.
Wednesday, July 4.
Treason and Sedition.
Bill to Define.
On motion to expunge the following words from the second section reported as an amendment:
"Or shall, in manner aforesaid, traduce or defame the President of the United States, or any Court or Judge thereof, by declarations, tending to criminate their motives in any official transaction:"
It was determined in the negative—yeas 8, nays 15, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Brown, Howard, Langdon, Martin, Mason, North, and Tazewell.
Nays.—Messrs. Chipman, Clayton, Foster, Goodhue, Hillhouse, Latimer, Laurance, Livermore, Lloyd, Paine, Read, Rutherford, Sedgwick, Stockton, and Tracy.
On motion to expunge the whole of the second section reported by the committee, in the words following: