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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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On March 7, the New York Senate passed a resolution (19-18) to form a joint committee with the Assembly to investigate constitutional questions on nomination rights in the Council of Appointment, appointing Lewis, Graham, and Hitchcock from the Senate.
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The following resolution passed the Senate of this state the 7th instant.—
Whereas doubts are entertained, whether the President of the Council of appointment has, by the constitution, the sole and exclusive right of nomination to office, or whether such right is equally and in common vested in the said President and the members of the Council respectively, or vested in the said Council exclusively: Therefore,
Resolved, (if the hon. the Assembly concur herein) That a joint committee of the Senate and Assembly be appointed to enquire what has been the practice relative to nomination to office in the council of appointment; that such joint committee have power to send for papers and records, and report a state of facts to the Legislature, with their opinion of a fit and proper mode of determining the said constitutional question; and in case of such concurrence, that Mess. Lewis, Graham and Hitchcock, be of the said committee on the part of the Senate.
The yeas and nays on passing the resolution were as follow:
Yeas. 19
Nays 18
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New York
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7th Instant
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passed with yeas 19, nays 18
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The Senate passed a resolution to appoint a joint committee with the Assembly to inquire into the practice of nominations to office in the Council of Appointment, addressing constitutional doubts about the President's sole right or shared/exclusive rights of the Council. The committee is to send for papers and records, report facts and opinion on determining the question. Mess. Lewis, Graham and Hitchcock appointed on the Senate's part if Assembly concurs.