Amendment to the Constitution.
Mr. Livingston laid the following joint resolution on the table:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of the said constitution, viz:
No Judge of any Court of the United States shall, during his continuance in office, or within six months after he may have resigned the same, be appointed to any other than a judiciary office, under the United States.
Monday, February 17.
Case of Jonathan Robbins.
Mr. Rutledge said, he had expected that some order would have been taken on the Message of the President, before this time, by the gentleman who called for it; but as he had been disappointed, he would now give notice to the honorable member from New York that he would call for some order upon the Message to-morrow.
Mr. Livingston said, the gentleman had momentarily anticipated him; he meant to have moved for a reference to a Committee of the whole House this morning, with an intention to introduce certain resolutions, and he would now make that motion.
The question on commitment was put and carried—yeas 50, nays 43; and was made the order of the day for Friday.
Mr. Bayard then laid the following resolution on the table, which was read and referred to the above committee, viz: