Gazette Of The United States

MR. FENNO,

The following extract from the Executive Journals of the Senate, may serve to obviate some difficulties which have been excited by a misrepresentation of the mode of voting in the Senate: All the late appointments were determined viva voce agreeable to this Resolve:

SENATE, Friday, August 21, 1789.

THE Senate proceeded to consider the report of the Committee appointed on the 6th of August. The Committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States, and confer with him on the mode of communication proper to be pursued between him, and the Senate, in the formation of Treaties, and making appointments to offices, reported—which report was agreed to as follows:

RESOLVED, That when nominations shall be made in writing by the President of the United States to the Senate, a future day shall be assigned, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise, for taking them into consideration.—That when the President of the United States shall meet the Senate in the Senate Chamber, the President of the Senate shall have a chair on the floor, be considered as the head of the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the President of the United States.—That when the Senate shall be convened by the President of the United States to any place, the President of the Senate, and Senators shall attend at the place appointed. The Secretary of the Senate shall also attend, to take the minutes of the Senate. That all questions shall be put by the President of the Senate, either in the presence or absence of the President of the United States; and the Senators shall signify their assent or dissent, by answering viva voce, aye or no.