3d. Resolved, That provision ought to be made, by law, to render any officer in the Army or Navy of the United States incapable of holding any civil office under the United States.
Mr. Fisk moved to postpone this resolution indefinitely.
This motion was supported by Messrs. Fisk, Elmer, and Cook; and opposed by Messrs. J. Clay, J. Randolph, and J. C. Smith.
When the question was taken by yeas and nays, and the motion disagreed to—yeas 43, nays 72.
The question was then taken that the House do agree with the Committee of the whole House in their agreement to the said resolution, and resolved in the affirmative—yeas 94, nays 21, as follows:
Yeas.—Willis Alston, jun., Isaac Anderson, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, George M. Bedinger, Silas Betton, William Blackledge, John Blake, junior, Thomas Blount, Robert Brown, William Butler, John Campbell, Levi Casey, Martin Chittenden, John Claiborne, Christopher Clark, Joseph Clay, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Frederick Conrad, Leonard Covington, John Dawson, William Dickson, Elias Earle, Peter Early, James Elliot, Caleb Ellis, William Ely, John W. Eppes, William Findlay, James Fisk, James M. Garnett, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Andrew Gregg, Silas Halsey, John Hamilton, Seth Hastings, David Holmes, David Hough, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, Thomas Kenan, John Lambert, Michael Leib, Joseph Lewis, junior, Duncan MacFarland, Robert Marion, Josiah Masters, Nicholas R. Moore, Thomas Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, John Morrow, Jonathan O. Mosely, Gurdon S. Mumford, Thomas Newton, junior, Gideon Olin, Timothy Pitkin, jun., John Pugh, Josiah Quincy, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, Jacob Richards, Peter Sailly, Thomas Sammons, Thomas Sanford, Martin G. Schuneman, John Smilie, John Cotton Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Thomas Spalding, Richard Stanford, Joseph Stanton, William Stedman, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Samuel Tenney, David Thomas, Philip R. Thompson, Thomas W. Thompson, Uri Tracy, Abram Trigg, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Peleg Wadsworth, Robert Whitehill, David R. Williams, Marmaduke Williams, Nathan Williams, Alexander Wilson, Richard Wynn, and Joseph Winston.
Nays.—Evan Alexander, Joseph Barker, Barnabas Bidwell, John Chandler, Orchard Cook, Jacob Crowninshield, Richard Cutts, Ezra Darby, John Davenport, junior, Ebenezer Elmer, Isaiah L. Green, James Kelly, William McCreery, Roger Nelson, John Rhea of Tennessee, John Russell, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, Joseph B. Varnum, John Whitehill, and Eliphalet Wickes.
Ordered, That a bill, or bills, be brought, in pursuant to the said resolution; and that Mr. John Randolph, Mr. David R. Williams, and Mr. John C. Smith, do prepare and bring in the same.