Nays.—John Allen, George Baer, jr., Bailey Bartlett, James A. Bayard, David Brooks, Christopher G. Champlin, John Chapman, James Cochran, Joshua Coit, William Craik, Samuel W. Dana, John Dennis, William Edmond, Thomas Evans, Abiel Foster, Dwight Foster, Jonathan Freeman, Henry Glenn, Chauncey Goodrich, Roger Griswold, Robert Goodloe Harper, Thomas Hartley, William Hindman, Hezekiah L. Hosmer, James H. Imlay, John Wilkes Kittera, Samuel Lyman, William Matthews, Daniel Morgan, Lewis R. Morris, Harrison G. Otis, James Schureman, Samuel Sewall, William Shepard, Thomas Sinnickson, Samuel Sitgreaves, Nathaniel Smith, George Thatcher, Richard Thomas, Mark Thompson, Thomas Tillinghast, John E. Van Allen, Peleg Wadsworth, and John Williams.
Mr. Sewall, Mr. Dana, Mr. Imlay, Mr. S. Smith, Mr. Josiah Parker, Mr. Brooks, and Mr. Rutledge, composed the committee.
Friday, May 25.
Instructions to Armed Vessels.
Mr. Sewall, from the Committee for the Protection of Commerce and the Defence of the Country, to whom was referred Mr. Sitgreaves' resolutions for instructing the commanders of our public and private armed vessels, and also the bill from the Senate for the further protection of the commerce and coast of the United States, reported it as the opinion of that committee that the bill from the Senate ought to be agreed to by the House.
The report was twice read, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the Whole.
On the Speaker's asking for what day this bill should be made the order, Monday, to-morrow, and to-day, were named.
The question was first taken on Monday, and negatived—43 to 37.
The question was then put upon to-morrow.
Mr. Gallatin hoped this bill would be made the order for to-morrow, as the bill had only been printed this morning, and the report but this moment made. It would be a very extraordinary proceeding to make this very important bill the order for this day.