JOHN ADAMS.
United States, Dec. 22, 1800.
On motion,
Resolved, That all confidential communications made by the President of the United States to the Senate, shall be, by the members thereof, kept inviolably secret; and that all treaties which may hereafter be laid before the Senate, shall also be kept secret, until the Senate shall, by their resolution, take off the injunction of secrecy.
Thursday, January 8, 1801.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the convention made on behalf of the United States with the Republic of France.
And the second article having been debated, a question was moved thereon, to wit: "Will the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of this article?"
And the yeas and nays being taken, are as follows—yeas 11, nays 16:
Yeas.—Messrs. Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Cocke, T. Foster, Franklin, Greene, Langdon, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, and Paine.
Nays.—Messrs. Armstrong, Chipman, Dayton, D. Foster, Gunn, Hillhouse, Hindman, Howard, Latimer, Livermore, J. Mason, Morris, Read, Schureman, Tracy, and Wells.