The above message was ordered to lie for consideration.[6] Mr. MORRIS, in behalf of the committee on the bill for allowing a compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, reported an amendment, to wit: To expunge, in the provision for the Vice President, "five thousand dollars," and insert "six thousand dollars." On motion to reduce the provision for the President of the United States, from "twenty-five thousand" to "twenty thousand dollars:" Passed in the negative. On motion to make the provision for the Vice President eight thousand dollars, instead of five thousand dollars: Passed in the negative. The Senate entered on executive business. The following message from the President was laid before them: _Gentlemen of the Senate:_ My nomination of Benjamin Fishbourn for the place of naval officer of the port of Savannah not having met with your concurrence, I now nominate Lachlan McIntosh for that office.[7] Whatever may have been the reasons which induced your dissent, I am persuaded they were such as you deemed sufficient. Permit me to submit to your consideration whether, on occasions where the propriety of nominations appears questionable to you, it would not be expedient to communicate that circumstance to me, and thereby avail yourselves of the information which led me to make them, and which I would with pleasure lay before you. Probably my reasons for nominating Mr. Fishbourn may tend to show that such a mode of proceeding, in such cases, might be useful. I will, therefore, detail them. First. While Colonel Fishbourn was an officer, in actual service, and chiefly under my own eye, his conduct appeared to me irreproachable; nor did I ever hear any thing injurious to his reputation as an officer or a gentleman. At the storming of Stony Point, his behavior was represented to have been active and brave, and he was charged by his General to bring the account of that success to the head quarters of the army.