Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
"That it appears to the committee more eligible that the
oath should be administered to the President in the outer
gallery adjoining the Senate Chamber, than in the
Representatives' Chamber, and therefore submit to the
respective Houses the propriety of authorizing their
committees to take order as to the place where the oath
shall be administered to the President, the resolutions of
Saturday, assigning the Representatives' Chamber as the
place, notwithstanding."
The said report being twice read,
_Resolved_, That this House doth concur in the said report,
and authorize the committee to take order for the change of
place thereby proposed.
The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Vice President of
the United States, enclosing two orders of the Senate, one of the 13th
instant, appointing a committee to confer with any committee to be
appointed on the part of this House, respecting the future disposition
of the papers, &c. in the office of the late Secretary of the United
States: the other of the 27th instant, for the attendance of both
Houses, with the President of the United States, after the oath shall be
administered to him, to hear divine service at St. Paul's Chapel: which
was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
TUESDAY, April 28.
Mr. RICHARD BLAND LEE, from the committee to whom was recommitted the
report respecting the mode of communicating papers, bills, and messages,
between the two Houses, reported as followth:
"When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House
of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of
the House by the doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully
communicated to the Chair, by the person by whom it may be
sent.
"The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall
be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.
"Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of
propriety in each House may determine to be proper."
The said report was twice read, and, on the question put thereupon,
agreed to by the House.
A letter from Matthias Ogden, of New Jersey, referring to sundry
petitions from citizens of that State, complaining of illegality in the
late election of Representatives for that State to this House was read
and ordered to lie on the table.
The order of the Senate of the 13th instant was read, appointing a
committee to confer with any committee to be appointed on the part of
this House, respecting the future disposition of the papers in the
office of the late Secretary of the United States; whereupon
_Ordered_, That Messrs. TRUMBULL, CADWALADER, and JACKSON, be a
committee for that purpose.
WEDNESDAY, April 29.
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