On motion to insert after the word “States,” “the Governors and Councillors of the respective States, and the Representatives of the State Legislatures,” it passed in the negative--yeas 13, nays 15, as follows: YEAS.--Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Bailey, Breckenridge, Dayton, Maclay, Potter, I. Smith, S. Smith, Tracy, Venable, Worthington, and Wright. NAYS.--Messrs. Armstrong, Baldwin, Bradley, Brown, Cocke, Condit, Ellery, Franklin, Hillhouse, Jackson, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, J. Smith, and White. On motion to agree to the resolution amended as follows: _Resolved_, That no person be admitted on the floor of the Senate Chamber, except members of the House of Representatives, foreign ministers, and Heads of Departments, and Judges of the Supreme and District Courts of the United States: It was determined in the negative--yeas 7, nays 21, as follows: YEAS.--Messrs. Adams, Bailey, Condit, Dayton, Franklin, Jackson, and Wright. NAYS.--Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bradley, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Ellery, Hillhouse, Maclay, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Potter, I. Smith, S. Smith, Tracy, Venable, White, and Worthington. FRIDAY, December 30. _Erection of Louisiana into two Territories._ Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, from the committee appointed, on the 5th instant, for that purpose, reported a bill erecting Louisiana into two Territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof; and the bill was read, and ordered to the second reading. TUESDAY, January 3, 1804. _Erection of Contingent Fund._ The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I now lay before the Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government. No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of eighteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, unexpended at the end of the last year, remains now in the Treasury. TH. JEFFERSON. DEC. 31, 1803. The Message and account therein referred to were read, and ordered to lie on file. MONDAY, January 16. The VICE PRESIDENT communicated a letter of this date from the Hon. THEODORUS BAILEY, resigning his seat in the Senate; which was read, and _Ordered_, That the VICE PRESIDENT be requested to notify the Executive of the State of New York accordingly. _Transfer of Louisiana._ The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: