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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The US Senate debated and voted on ratifying the convention with France, proposing to expunge articles 2 and 3, add clauses on prior treaties and an eight-year limit, but ultimately rejected ratification 16-14, failing the two-thirds requirement.
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This day the question was taken in the Senate on the Convention with France. The form of ratification was brought in by a committee of the Senate, and was in substance as follows: That the Senate advise and consent to a ratification of the same, provided the second and third articles be expunged, and two articles be added; one declaring this Convention shall not be construed to operate contrary to any former treaty with any state or sovereign, and the other that the Convention should be limited to eight years duration.
Questions were taken on striking out of the form of ratification, that part of the proviso which expunges the 2d article, that part which expunged the 3d article, and the part declaring the convention shall not operate contrary to former treaties, etc. And they were all struck out of the form. The limitation was preserved in it; and on the question of ratification with this limitation, the votes in favor of it were 16, against it 14. Two thirds being necessary to ratify a Treaty, the question was lost.
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votes in favor: 16, against: 14; ratification failed as two-thirds majority required.
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The Senate considered ratifying the Convention with France. A committee proposed expunging the second and third articles and adding clauses on prior treaties and an eight-year limit. Votes struck out the expungements and prior treaty clause, kept the limitation, but the ratification with limitation lost 16-14.