May 3, 1802

The Senate took into consideration the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st of May, for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

And, on the question. Will the Senate concur therein? it passed in the negative — yeas 15, nays 8, as follows :

YxAs — Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge. Brown, Clinton, Cocke, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, Sumter, and Wright.

Nats — Messrs. Dwight Foster, Howard, Morris, 01- cott, Ogden, Stone, Tracy, and Wells.

So the question was lost, two-thirds of the Senators present not concurring therein.