The Speaker signed the said bills and resolution. Ordered, That the Clerk do acquaint the Senate therewith. A motion was made by Mr. Wright, that the House do come to the following resolution: Resolved, That a committee of the whole House be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the second section of the act for the establishment of rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, relative to spies, to citizens of the United States. And the question being taken thereon, It passed in the affirmative, Yeas 86. Nays 77. The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are On motion of Mr. Wright, the said resolution was made the order of the day for Friday next. Mr. Hanson withdrew his resolutions submitted by him on the 28th ultimo, and submitted the following in lieu thereof: 1. Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby requested, to communicate to this House any information in his possession. and which it may not be improper to divulge, in relation to the omission or refusal of the French government to accredit the minister plenipotentiary sent by the United States to that court, or of his reception, if accredited, of the time when he was so accredited, and of the progress of his negotiation. 2. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire whether Mr. Turreau, late minister of France, did or did not, on or about the 14th of June, 1809, write a letter to the Secretary of State, setting forth the terms and conditions upon which his government would treat of amity and commerce with the United States, and urging certain complaints against this government, and requiring certain political sacrifices to be made as an indispensable pre-requisite to the formation of such a treaty, and whether the said letter was not withdrawn from the archives of the Department of State, and how and when it was so withdrawn; and, that the said committee have power to send for persons and papers. And, on the question that the House do now proceed to consider the said resolutions, It passed in the affirmative, Yeas 90. The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are |