Mr. HILLHOUSE, from the Committee of Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of STANLEY GRISWOLD, Esq., appointed (a Senator of the United States by the Executive of the State of Ohio, made report: Whereupon, Resolved That STANLEY GRISWOLD, appointed by the Governor of the State of Ohio, as a Senator of the United States, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of EDWARD TIFFIN, is entitled to his seat. FRIDAY, June 16. SENATE. Ou motion, by Mr. ANDERSON, it was agreed that this bill be recommitted to a select committee; and Messrs. ANDERSON, TURNER, and HILLHOUSE, were appointed the committee, further to consider and report thereon. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole the bill to amend, and continue in force the act, entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes." On motion, by Mr. WHITE, the further consid The following Message was received from the eration thereof was postponed until to-morrow. President of the United States: To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, I transmit extracts from letters from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, accompanied by letters and communications to him from the British Secretary of State for the foreign department; all of which have been received here since the last session of Congress. To these documents are added a communication just made by Mr. Erskine to the Secretary of State, and his answer. JAMES MADISON. JUNE 15, 1809. The Message and papers were read, and ordered to lie for consideration, and three hundred copies thereof printed for the use of the Senate. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes; and on motion, by Mr. REED, to expunge the second section, as follows: "And be it further enacted, That any owner of any such slave may have and exercise the same rights of ownership over the same as if the act aforesaid had never been passed, until the Legislatures of the several States and Territories thereof, within which any such slave or slaves may have been brought as aforesaid, shall have disposed of the same according to the provisions of the act aforesaid:" It was determined in the affirmative-yeas 19, nays 9, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Condit, Franklin, German, Gilman, Goodrich, Gregg, Griswold, Hillhouse, Lambert, Leib, Lloyd, Mathewson, Parker, Pickering, Reed, Smith of New York, Thruston, and White. NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Brent, Crawford, Gaillard, Giles, Pope, Turner, and Whiteside. On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time? it was determined in the affirmative-yeas 20, nays 5, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Franklin, Gaillard, German, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Griswold, Lambert, Leib, Pope, Smith of New York, Thruston, Turner, White, and Whiteside. NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, and Pickering. Mr. BRENT gave notice that he should, tomorrow, ask leave to bring in a bill to appropriate certain public grounds in the city of Washington for the erection of public baths. The Senate resumed as in Committee of the Whole, the bill to direct the sale of gunboats. Mr. BRENT Submitted the following motion: Resolved, That the petition of Richard Bland Lee, presented at the last session of Congress, praying compensation for injuries committed on his property near Harper's Ferry, by the officers and agents of the United States, be referred to the Secretary of War, to examine the allegations thereof, and report to the next session of Congress a special statement of facts thereon, particularly the extent and value of the trespasses alleged to have been committed, with his opinion thereon. Mr. REED asked and obtained leave to bring în a bill to change the post route from Annapolis to Rockhall, by Baltimore to Rockhall; and the bill was read, and by unanimous consent, it was read a second time, and referred to Messrs. REED, WHITE, and BRADLEY, to consider and report thereon. SATURDAY, June 17. Mr. REED, from the committee to whom was referred the bill to change the post route from Annapolis to Rockhall, by Baltimore to Rockhall, reported the bill without amendment. The Senate proceeded to consider the bill as in Committee of the Whole, and no amendment having been proposed thereto, on the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time? it was determined in the affirmative. Mr. BRENT asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill to appropriate certain public grounds in the City of Washington for the erection of public baths; and the bill was read, and passed to the second reading. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill to amend and continue in force the act, entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes;" and the President reported the bill to the House amended. On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed, and read a third time as amended? it was determined in the affirmative. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes, correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time. On motion, by Mr. HILLHOUSE, Ordered, That this bill be postponed until Monday next. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill to change the post route from Annapolis MONDAY, June 19. On motion by Mr. GILES, Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate such information as he may deem proper to communicate respecting the unfortunate exiles lately expelled from the Island of Cuba, and who may have arrived or are expected to arrive within the jurisdiction of the United States; and, also, respecting any propositions which may have been made to him by the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, for the purpose of facilitating the removal of any of the said exiles, with their slaves and other effects, from the United States, to any place within the dominions of France. JUNE, 1809. Reed, Robinson, Smith of New York, Thruston, Turner, White, and Whiteside. And the title having been amended; it was Resolved, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof, be "An act to amend and continue in force certain parts of the act, entitled 'An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes." TUESDAY, June 20. Mr. LEIB submitted the following motion: Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the exclusion of foreign armed vessels from the ports and harbors of the United States, and that the committee have leave to report by bill. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until the first Monday in Decem⚫ ber next. · Ordered, That the Secretary lay this resolution before the President of the United States. The Senate resumed the third reading of the referred the letter and report of B. H. Latrobe, Mr. BRENT, from the committee to whom were bill for the remission of certain penalties and for-reported a bill making an appropriation to finish feitures, and for other purposes. Ordered, That it be referred to Messrs. GILES, ANDERSON, CRAWFORD, FRANKLIN, and HILLHOUSE, to consider and report thereon. Mr. ANDERSON, from the committee to whom was referred the bill to direct the sale of gunboats, reported the bill with an amendment. Mr. BRENT gave notice that he should, to-morrow, ask leave to bring in a bill supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia." and furnish the Senate Chamber, and for other purposes; and the bill was twice read by unani mous consent, and considered as in Committee of PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, I transmit such information as has The bill to appropriate certain public ground been received respecting exiles from Cuba, arrived or in the city of Washington for the erection of pub- expected within the United States; also, a letter from lic baths, was read the second time, and consid-General Turreau, connected with that subject. ered as in Committee of the Whole, and amended; and the President having reported the bill to the House accordingly, on the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended? it was determined in the affirmative. The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of War, containing three statements of contracts made by the Secretary of War and the Purveyor of Public Supplies in the year 1808, in pursuance of the act of the 21st of April, 1808; and the letter and statements were read, and ordered to lie for consideration. The bill to amend and continue in force the act, entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes," was read the third time. On the question, Shall this bill pass? it was determined unanimously in the affirmative-yeas 29, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Franklin, Gaillard, German, Giles, Gilman, Goodrich, Gregg, Griswold, Hillhouse, Lambert, Leib, Lloyd, Mathewson, Meigs, Parker, Pickering, Pope, JUNE 20, 1809. JAMES MADISON. The Message and papers were read, and referred to the committee appointed on the bill for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes, to consider and report thereon. The bill to appropriate certain public ground in the City of Washington for the erection of public baths was read the third time; and, on motion to postpone the further consideration thereof until the first Monday of December next, it was determined in the affirmative-yeas 15, nays 13, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Condit, Franklin, Gail- Goodrich, Leib, Lloyd, Meigs, Pope, Reed, Thruston, White, and Whiteside. Mr. BRENT asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia ;" and the bill was read, and passed to a second reading. Mr. LLOYD gave notice that he should, to-morrow, ask leave to bring in a bill authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill making an appropriation to finish and furnish the Senate Chamber, and for other purposes, correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time by unanimous consent; and the blanks having been filled, 1st, "fifteen thousand," 2d, "sixteen hundred" Resolved, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof be "An act making appropriation to finish and furnish the Senate Chamber, and for other purposes." amended. Ordered, That the consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow. The bill supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia," was read the second time, and on motion, by Mr. LEIB, the further consideration thereof was postponed until the first Monday in December next. Mr. LLOYD asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of the customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels; and the bill was twice read by unanimous consent, and referred to Messrs. LLOYD, LEIB, and ANDERSON, to consider and report thereon. Mr. GERMAN presented the petition of John R. Murray and William Ogden, merchants, under the firm of John Murray and Sons, praying to be allowed the benefit of drawback on a quantity of Havana sugars exported, for reasons mentioned in their petition; which was read, and referred to Messrs. GERMAN, GREGG, and LLOYD, to consider and report thereon. The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion submitted yesterday, that a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the exclusion of foreign armed vessels from the ports and harbors of the United States; and, on motion by Mr. REED to postpone the consideration thereof until the first Monday in December next, it was determined in the negative-yeas 9, nays 19, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, German, Gilman, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, Pickering, Reed, and White. NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Franklin, Gaillard, Giles, Gregg, Griswold, Lambert, Leib, Mathewson, Meigs, Parker, Pope, Robinson, Smith of New York, Turner, and Whiteside. SENATE. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the exclusion of armed vessels from the ports and harbors of the United States; and that the committee have leave to report by bill. Ordered, That Messrs. LEIB, CRAWFORD, GILES, ANDERSON, and POPE, be the committee. A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House have passed a bill, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act making further provision, for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," in which they request the concurrence of the Senate. The House of Rep resentatives have passed a resolution for the appointment of a committee on their part, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to have the direction of the money appropriated to purchase books for the use of the library of the United States. The bill brought up for concurrence was read, and passed to the second reading. tion of the House of Representatives for the apThe Senate proceeded to consider the resolupointment of a committee to have the direction of the money appropriated to purchase books for the use of the library, and concurred therein; and Messrs. THRUSTON, GILES, and GREGG, were appointed the committee. The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion made the 16th instant; and, Resolved, That the petition of Richard Bland Lee, presented at the last session of Congress, his property, near Harper's Ferry, by the officers praying compensation for injuries committed on the Secretary of War, to examine the allegations and agents of the United States, be referred to thereof, and report to the next session of Congress a special statement of facts thereon, particularly the extent and value of the trespasses alleged to have been committed, with his opinion thereon. THURSDAY, June 22. Mr. LLOYD, from the committee to whom was referred the bill authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of the customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels, reported the bill without amendment. The Senate proceeded to consider the bill as in Committee of the Whole, and no amendment having been proposed thereon, on the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time? it was determined in the affirmative. The bill, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act making further provision for tion of the public debt," was read the second the support of public credit, and for the redemptime, and referred to Messrs. LLOYD, ANDERSON, and CRAWFORD, to consider and report thereon. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes; and the President having reported the bill to the SENATE. Foreign Armed Vessels. JUNE, 1809. House amended, on the question, Shall this bill The bills last mentioned were read, and passed be engrossed and read a third time as amended? to the second reading. it was determined in the affirmative. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill correctly engrossed, and it was read the third time by unanimous consent, and the blank filled with "fifteen thousand." Resolved, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof be "An act for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes." Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of the customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels, correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time by unanimous consent. Resolved, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof be "An act authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of the customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels." Mr. POPE gave notice that he should to-morrow ask leave to bring in a bill freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson. A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House concur in the resolution empowering the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, to adjourn their respective Houses on the 20th instant, with an amendment, to wit: to insert the 28th instead of the 20th, in which they request the concurrence of the Senate. The Senate proceeded to consider the said amendment, and concurred therein. Mr. LLOYD gave notice that he should to-morrow ask leave to bring in a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in certain cases, to remit the penalties and forfeitures on vessels arriving in the United States from France, her colonies or dependencies. FRIDAY, June 23. Mr. POPE gave notice that to-morrow he should ask leave to bring in a bill in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio. Mr. POPE obtained leave to bring in a bill freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson; and the bill was read, and passed to the second reading. The bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for defraying the expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, during the present session, and an additional appropriation for the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the Library of Congress," was read the second time by unanimous consent, and referred to Messrs. FRANKLIN, GREGG, and GILES, to consider and report thereon. The bill, entitled "An act concerning the Naval Establishment," was. read the second time, by unanimous consent, and referred to Messrs. BAYARD, GILES, and LLOYD, to consider and report thereon. Mr. LLOYD, from the committee to whom was referred the bill, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," reported amendments; which were read. FOREIGN ARMED VESSELS. Mr. LEIB, from the committee, appointed on the 20th instant, to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the exclusion of foreign armed vessels from the ports and harbors of the United States, made report; which was read, as follows: interdiction is within the just and neutral rights of the "That, in the opinion of this committee, such an United States, and, under other circumstances, would be highly expedient and proper. So long as a neutral nation shall confine itself to strict measures of impartiality, allowing no benefit to one belligerent, not stipulated by treaty, which it shall refuse to another, no cause whatever is afforded for exception or complaint. The right to admit an armed force into a neutral territory, belongs exclusively to the neutral; and when not guarantied by treaty, as is oftentimes the case, such admission compromits the neutrality of the nation, which permits to one belligerent alone such an indulgence. "As a measure of safety as well as peace, it is incumbent upon the United States to carry into effect such a provision. So long as we are without a competent force to protect our jurisdiction from violation, and our citizens from outrage, and our flag from insult, so long ought no asylum to be given, but in distress, to the armed vessels of any nation. The committee which the United States have sustained from the hoswill not bring into view the many injuries and insults pitable grant of their ports and harbors to belligerents; them to lay our commerce under contribution. It is nor the facility which has thereby been afforded to sufficient to remark, that great injuries have been sustained, and that imperious duty requires arrangements at our hands to guard our country in future from simi A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House have passed a bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for defraying the expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, during the present ses-lar aggressions. sion of Congress, and an additional appropriation for the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the library of Congress;" also, a bill, entitled "An act concerning the Naval department;" in which bills they request the concurrence of the Senate. "The United States are, at this moment, under no obligation to withhold restraints, within their power, upon the admission of foreign armed vessels into their ports; but the committee are too strongly impressed with the propriety of avoiding any legislative interference at this time, which, by any possibility, might be construed into a desire to throw difficulties in the way of promised and pending negotiations. They are desirous that a fair experiment may be made to adjust our differences with the two belligerent nations, and that no provisions be interwoven in our laws which shall furnish a pretext for delay, or a refusal to yield to our just and honorable demands. "Calculating that the overtures which have been made by Great Britain will be executed in good faith, the committee are willing to believe that the stipulated arrangements will be of such a character as to guard our flag from insult, our jurisdiction from aggression, our citizens from violation, and our mercantile property from spoliation. Under these impressions, which the committee have stated as briefly as possible, they beg leave to submit to the consideration of the Senate the following resolution, viz: "Resolved, That the further consideration of the subject be postponed until the next session of Con gress. SATURDAY, June 24. The bill freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson was read the second time, and considered as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment having been proposed, on the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time? it was determined in the affirmative. SENATE. rectly engrossed, and the bill was read the third Ordered, That the further consideration thereof. be postponed until Monday next. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, reported the bill freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson, correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time by unanimous consent, and passed. Mr. POPE asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill in addition to the "Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio;" and the bill was read, and passed to the second reading. MONDAY, June 26. The VICE PRESIDENT being absent, the Senate proceeded to the election of a President pro tem. pore, as the Constitution provides; and the honorable ANDREW GREGG was elected. Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee to whom Ordered, That the Secretary wait on the Presiwas referred the bill, entitled "An act making dent of the United States, and acquaint him that appropriations for defraying the expense of sta- the Senate have, in the absence of the Vice Prestionery, printing, and all other contingent ex-ident, elected the honorable ANDREW GREGG penses of the Senate and House of Representa- President of the Senate pro tempore. tives, during the present session of Congress, and an additional appropriation for the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the Library of Congress," reported an amendment to the bill. On motion, by Mr. ANDERSON, to expunge the second section of the bill, as follows: Ordered, That the Secretary make a like communication to the House of Representatives. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the amendments reported by the select committee to the bill, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act making furand for the redemption of the public debt ;" and ther provision for the support of public credit, the President reported to the House that the Committee of the Whole had disagreed to the said amendments, but that they had agreed to amend the bill. On motion, by Mr. LLOYD, to add a new section to the bill, as follows: “And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the sum of one thousand dollars annually appropriated by the act of February twenty-one, one thousand eight hundred and six, for the term of five years thereafter ensuing, there be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, a further annual sum of four thousand dollars for the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the Library of Congress, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended "SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secunder the direction of a joint committee of three mem-retary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empow bers of the Senate and three members of the House of ered, from and after the passing of this act, until the Representatives, to be appointed every session of Con- first day of January next ensuing, with the approbagress, during the continuance of this appropriation." tion of the President of the United States, to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding three millions five hundred thousand dollars, whenever, in his opinion, it may be expedient to borrow said sum, or any part thereof, in order to provide for the expenses of Government. And that for the more fully carrying into effect the objects of this act, the same powers, regulations, and restrictions, which apply to loans made by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, under the tenth section of the act, entitled public credit, and for the redemption of the public 'An act making further provision for the support of debt,' be, and the same are hereby, vested in, and imposed on, the Secretary of the Treasury. And it shall be lawful for him to make any loan or loans hereby It was determined in the affirmative-yeas 17, nays 10, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Condit, Franklin, German, Gregg, Lambert, Leib, Mathewson, Meigs, Parker, Pickering, Pope, Reed, Robinson, Smith of New York, Turner, and Whiteside. NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Crawford, Gaillard, Giles, Gilman, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, Thruston, and White. And the PRESIDENT reported the bill to the House as amended. Ordered, That this bill pass to a third reading. |