SENATE

Saturday, 2 March, 1861.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America. Page 360: Mr. Sumner moved that the entry in the journal of yesterday, “ be corrected, so that the same shall read: The joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States was read the first time.” “ Shall the resolution be read a second time? ” Page 361: “ The said resolution was read the second time.” Page 363: “ The President of the United States approved and signed, . . .” “And on this day, An act (H. R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes.” Page 374: “ The President (Mr. Fitch in the chair),” “called up the joint resolution (S. 70) proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States;” and, “ In the progress of the debate which ensued, A disturbance arose in the galleries; when The President (Mr. Fitch in the chair) directed the Sergeant-at-arms to clear the galleries and close the doors of the galleries. The Sergeant-at-arms having executed the order of the presiding officer, and order being restored, Mr. Crittenden asked and obtained unanimous consent to submit a motion: that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet to-morrow, at half past twelve o'clock; and, On the question to agree to the motion, It was determined in the negative, . . .” “On motion by Mr. Douglas, to postpone the consideration of the pending question and all prior orders, and that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.” Page 375: “On motion by Mr. Lane, and by unanimous consent, Ordered, That the doors of the gallery to the left of the Chair be opened for the admission of ladies only. Mr. King, by unanimous consent, submitted a motion that the doors of the gallery to the right of the Chair be opened for the admission of spectators. The Senate proceeded, by unanimous consent, to consider the motion, On motion by Mr. Latham, to amend the motion by striking out the word ‘spectators,’ and in lieu thereof inserting ladies only, On motion by Mr. Clingman, Ordered, That the motion of Mr. King, with the proposed amendment, lie on the table. The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.” Page 377: “ Mr. Crittenden presented the credentials of the Hon. John C. Breckinridge, elected a senator by the legislature of the State of Kentucky for the term of six years, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1861; which were read. A disorder prevailing in the galleries to the right of the Chair, On motion by Mr. Douglas, That the galleries to the right of the Chair be cleared, It was determined in the affirmative, . . .” “ Order being restored, . . .” “ The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States; . . .” Proposed Article 1. through Article 7. Page 379: “ On motion by Mr. Doolittle, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting at the end thereof the following: Article 8. Under this Constitution, as originally adopted and as it now exists, no State has power to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States; and this Constitution, and all laws passed in pursuance of its delegated powers, are the supreme law of the land, anything contained in any constitution, ordinance, or act of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. It was determined in the negative, Yeas ... 18 Nays... 28 ” Page 383: “ No amendment being made, the resolution was reported to the Senate. Ordered, That it pass to a third reading. The said resolution was read the third time.” (H. R. 80) “On the question, Shall the resolution pass? It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas ... 24 Nays ... 12 On motion by Mr. Bigler, The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs.” Henry B. Anthony, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Edward D. Baker, Oregon, William Bigler, Pennsylvania, Jesse D. Bright, Indiana, John J. Crittenden, Kentucky, James Dixon, Connecticut, Stephen A. Douglas, lllinois, Lafayette S. Foster, Connecticut, James W. Grimes, Iowa, William M. Gwin, California, James Harlan, Iowa, R. M. T. Hunter, Virginia, Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, Anthony Kennedy, Maryland, Milton S. Latham, California, James M. Mason, Virginia, Justin Smith Morrill, Vermont, Alfred O. P. Nicholson, Tennessee, Trusten Polk, Missouri, George E. Pugh, Ohio, Henry M. Rice, Minnesota, William King Sebastian, Arkansas, John C. Ten Eyck, New Jersey, John R. Thomson, New Jersey. “ Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs.” Kinsley S. Bingham, Michigan, Zachariah Chandler, Michigan, Daniel Clark, New Hampshire, James R. Doolittle, Wisconsin, Charles Durkee, Wisconsin, Solomon Foot, Vermont, Preston King, New York, Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, Lyman Trumbull, Illinois, Benjamin F. Wade, Ohio, Morton S. Wilkinson, Minnesota, Henry Wilson, Massachusetts. “The President (Mr. Polk in the chair) announced that the joint resolution was passed. Mr. Trumbull raised a question of order: whether, the joint resolution being a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States, it did not require an affirmative vote of two thirds of the members composing the Senate, to pass the same. The President decided that it required an affirmative vote of two thirds of the senators present, only. From this decision Mr. Trumbull appealed; and On the question, Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Senate? It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas ... 33 Nays ... 1 ” “ Mr. Wade voted in the negative. So the decision of the Chair was sustained.” Pages 383 - 384: “ Mr. Foot submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved, That the thanks of the Senate are due and are hereby tendered to the honorable John C. Breckinridge for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of the Chair, during the term of his presiding over this body. The Senate proceeded, by unanimous consent, to consider the resolution, and The resolution was unanimously agreed to.” Pages 396 - 397: “A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Forney, its Clerk: Mr. President: The President of the United States approved and signed, the 2d March, the following acts and joint resolutions: H. R. 80 Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the UnitedStates.” “ Thehonorable Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President elect, entered the Senatechamber, . . .” Page 398: “ Whereupon The Vice-President administered to Mr. Hamlin the oath of office as Vice-President of the United States; and announced that the hour for the termination of the present Congress had arrived, and declared the Senate adjourned without day.” MONDAY, March 4, 1861. Special Session of the Senate “convened at twelve o’clock” for “an extraordinary occasion”. The Journal of the House of Representatives, has this message from the Senate: “The Senate have passed a joint resolution of this House” (H. Res. 80) to amend the Constitution ofthe United States. Meating of the Minds? Morrill Tariff, Politics of Slavery, TaxJudas.com LandGrab.us

Saturday, 2 March, 1861.

Journal of  the Senate of the
United States of America.
Page 360: Mr. Sumner moved that the entry in the journal of yesterday, “ be corrected, so that the same shall read: The joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States was read the first time.”
“ Shall the resolution be read a second time? ”
Page 361: “ The said resolution was read the second time.”
Page 363: “ The President of the United States approved and signed, . . .”   “And on this day, An act (H. R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes.”
Page 374: “ The President (Mr. Fitch in the chair),” “called up the joint resolution (S. 70) proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of  the United States;” and, “ In the progress of the debate which ensued, A disturbance arose in the galleries; when The President (Mr. Fitch in the chair) directed the Sergeant-at-arms to clear the galleries and close the doors of  the galleries.
The Sergeant-at-arms having executed the order of the presiding officer, and order being restored, Mr. Crittenden asked and obtained unanimous consent to submit a motion: that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet to-morrow, at half past twelve o'clock; and, On the question to agree to the motion, It was determined in the negative, . . .”
“On motion by Mr. Douglas, to postpone the consideration of the pending question and all prior orders, and that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.”
Page 375: “On motion by Mr. Lane, and by unanimous consent, Ordered, That the doors of the gallery to the left of  the Chair be opened for the admission of ladies only.
Mr. King, by unanimous consent, submitted a motion that the doors of the gallery to the right of the Chair be opened for the admission of  spectators.
The Senate proceeded, by unanimous consent, to consider the motion,
On motion by Mr. Latham, to amend the motion by striking out the word ‘spectators,’ and in lieu thereof inserting ladies only,   On motion by Mr. Clingman, Ordered, That the motion of Mr. King, with the proposed amendment, lie on the table.
The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.”
Page 377: “ Mr. Crittenden presented the credentials of the Hon. John C. Breckinridge, elected a senator by the legislature of the State of Kentucky for the term of six years, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1861; which were read.
A disorder prevailing in the galleries to the right of the Chair,   On motion by Mr. Douglas, That the galleries to the right of the Chair be cleared, It was determined in the affirmative, . . .”
“ Order being restored, . . .”
“ The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States; . . .”
Proposed Article 1. through Article 7.
Page 379: “ On motion by Mr. Doolittle, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting at the end thereof the following:
Article 8. Under this Constitution, as originally adopted and as it now exists, no State has power to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States; and this Constitution, and all laws passed in pursuance of its delegated powers, are the supreme law of the land, anything contained in any constitution, ordinance, or act of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. It was determined in the negative, Yeas ... 18   Nays... 28 ”
Page 383: “ No amendment being made, the resolution was reported to the Senate. Ordered, That it pass to a third reading. The said resolution was read the third time.” (H. R. 80) “On the question, Shall the resolution pass? It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas ... 24   Nays ... 12
On motion by Mr. Bigler, The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present,   Those who voted in  the affirmative are,  Messrs.”
Henry B. Anthony, Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations,
Edward D. Baker, Oregon,
   William Bigler, Pennsylvania,
   Jesse D. Bright, Indiana,
John J. Crittenden, Kentucky,
James Dixon, Connecticut,
Stephen A. Douglas, lllinois,
Lafayette S. Foster, Connecticut,
James W. Grimes, Iowa,
William M. Gwin, California,
James Harlan, Iowa,
R. M. T. Hunter, Virginia,
Andrew Johnson, Tennessee,
Anthony Kennedy, Maryland,
Milton S. Latham, California,
James M. Mason, Virginia,
Justin Smith Morrill, Vermont,
Alfred O. P. Nicholson, Tennessee,
Trusten Polk, Missouri,
George E. Pugh, Ohio,
   Henry M. Rice, Minnesota,
William King Sebastian, Arkansas,
John C. Ten Eyck, New Jersey,
John R. Thomson, New Jersey.

“ Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs.”
Kinsley S. Bingham, Michigan,
Zachariah Chandler, Michigan,
Daniel Clark, New Hampshire,
James R. Doolittle, Wisconsin,
Charles Durkee, Wisconsin,
Solomon Foot, Vermont,
Preston King, New York,
Charles Sumner, Massachusetts,
Lyman Trumbull, Illinois,
Benjamin F. Wade, Ohio,
Morton S. Wilkinson, Minnesota,
Henry Wilson, Massachusetts.

“The President (Mr. Polk in the chair)
announced that the joint resolution was passed.

Mr. Trumbull raised a question of order: whether, the joint resolution being a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States, it did not require an affirmative vote of two thirds of the members composing the Senate, to pass the same.

The President decided that it required an affirmative vote of two thirds of the senators present, only.

From this decision Mr. Trumbull appealed; and On the question, Shall the decision of the Chair stand as  the judgment of the Senate?
It was determined in the affirmative,
Yeas ... 33 Nays ... 1 ”
“ Mr. Wade voted in the negative.
So the decision of the Chair was sustained.”

Pages 383 - 384: “ Mr. Foot submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved, That the thanks of  the Senate are due and are hereby tendered to the honorable John C. Breckinridge for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of the Chair, during the term of his presiding over this body. The Senate proceeded, by  unanimous consent, to consider the resolution, and  The resolution was unanimously agreed to.”
Pages 396 - 397: “A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Forney, its Clerk:
Mr. President: The President of the United States approved and signed, the 2d March, the following acts and joint resolutions: H. R. 80 Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the UnitedStates.”
“ Thehonorable Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President elect, entered the Senatechamber, . . .”
Page 398: “ Whereupon The Vice-President administered to Mr. Hamlin the oath of office as Vice-President of the United States; and announced that the hour for the termination of the present Congress had arrived, and declared the Senate adjourned without day.”

MONDAY, March 4, 1861. Special Session of the Senate “convened at twelve o’clock” for “an  extraordinary occasion”.

The Journal of the House of Representatives, has this message from the Senate:
“The Senate have passed a joint resolution of this House” (H. Res. 80) to amend the Constitution ofthe United States.

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