Mr. L. R. Morris expressed his disagreement with the Speaker on a point of order—
When the question was taken on the rising of the committee, and carried in the affirmative—ayes 49, noes 37.
The committee accordingly rose, and the Chairman reported that they had come to no resolution.
A motion was made to adjourn, on which Mr. Griswold called the yeas and nays; which were—yeas 38, nays 51.
Navigation of the Mississippi.
[Secret Session.]
The House was then cleared of all persons, except the members and the Clerk: Whereupon the House resumed the consideration of a confidential communication from the President of the United States, received the thirty-first ultimo.
Ordered, That the Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union, to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States of the twenty-second and thirtieth ultimo, be discharged from the consideration thereof; and that the said Message, together with the documents transmitted therewith, be committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.
On a motion made and seconded that the House do come to the following resolution:
Resolved, That this House receive, with great sensibility, the information of a disposition in certain officers of the Spanish Government at New Orleans, to obstruct the navigation of the river Mississippi, as secured to the United States by the most solemn stipulations.