Saturday, February 16.
Charles Pinckney, elected a Senator by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina, in place of John Hunter, resigned, produced his credentials, and the oath prescribed by law being administered to him, he took his seat in the Senate.
The Senate proceeded to consider the amendments reported by the committee to the bill giving eventual authority to the President of the United States to augment the Army.
On motion, to agree to the amendment reported to the 7th section, to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth and employ the said volunteers in all cases, and to effect all the purposes for which he is authorized to call forth and employ the militia, by the act, entitled 'An act to provide for the calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for these purposes:'"
It passed in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Chipman, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Howard, Laurance, Livermore, Lloyd, Marshall, Paine, Ross, Sedgwick, Tracy, Watson, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Bloodworth, Langdon, Martin, Mason, Pinckney, and Tattnall.
Saturday, February 23.
The bill, sent from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act to grant an additional compensation from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to certain officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States," was read the second time.