Part 166

From New Jersey, ELIAS BOUDINOT, ABRAHAM CLARK, and JONATHAN DAYTON.

From Pennsylvania, THOMAS FITZSIMONS and FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG.

From Maryland, PHILIP KEY and WILLIAM VANS MURRAY.

From Virginia, WILLIAM B. GILES, JAMES MADISON, ANDREW MOORE, JOSIAH PARKER, ABRAHAM VENABLE, and ALEXANDER WHITE.

From North Carolina, NATHANIEL MACON, JOHN STEELE, and HUGH WILLIAMSON.

From South Carolina, WILLIAM SMITH, THOMAS SUMTER, and THOMAS TUDOR TUCKER.

From Georgia, ABRAHAM BALDWIN and FRANCIS WILLIS.

A quorum of members being present, a message was sent to the Senate to inform that body thereof. And a similar message was received by the House from the Senate; and that JOHN LANGDON had been chosen their President pro tempore.

A joint committee were then appointed to wait on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, to inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and ready to receive any communications he may think proper to make them.

Resolved, That two Chaplains, of different denominations, be appointed to Congress, one by each House, to interchange weekly.

The House then proceeded to appoint a Chaplain on their part, when a majority of votes appeared in favor of the Reverend ASHBEL GREEN.

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Governor of Georgia, enclosing a proclamation and return of the election of JOHN MILLEDGE, to serve as one of the members of this House for the said State, in the room of ANTHONY WAYNE, whose seat was declared vacant; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. BOUDINOT, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled and ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make to them, reported that the committee had performed that service, and that the PRESIDENT was pleased to say, that he would make a communication to both Houses of Congress to-morrow, at twelve o'clock in the Senate Chamber.

TUESDAY, November 6.

Several other members, viz: from New York, JAMES GORDON; from Pennsylvania, JOHN WILKES KITTERA; and from Virginia, SAMUEL GRIFFIN and JOHN PAGE, appeared, and took their seats in the House.

A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate are now ready, in the Senate Chamber, to attend this House in receiving the communication from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, agreeably to his notification to both Houses yesterday.

The SPEAKER, attended by the members of this House, then withdrew to the Senate Chamber for the purpose expressed in the message from the Senate; and, being returned, the SPEAKER laid before the House a copy of the Speech delivered by the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to both Houses of Congress, in the Senate Chamber. [A copy of the Speech appears in the proceedings of the Senate.]

Ordered, That the said Speech be committed to the consideration of a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.

WEDNESDAY, November 7.

Defeat of General St. Clair.

Ordered, That the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Major General St. Clair, which was made on the 8th day of May last, be referred to the consideration of a Committee of the whole House on Wednesday next.

Answer to the President.

The order of the day being called for, (Mr. LAURANCE in the chair,) the Speech of the PRESIDENT, delivered yesterday to Congress, was taken up; and, on motion of Mr. SMITH, of South Carolina, the following resolve was agreed to: "That a committee be appointed to prepare and report a respectful Address to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, in answer to his Speech delivered to both Houses of Congress at the opening of the present session; with assurances, that they would take into consideration the important matters therein contained." An amendment was now moved, to strike out the word "important;" but it was negatived, as being a word of too much importance to be neglected. The resolution was carried, in substance, as above, and the committee rose and reported it. The House immediately agreed, and a committee of three--Messrs. MADISON, BENSON, and MURRAY--were appointed by the SPEAKER to prepare the answer in conformity with the said resolve.

The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

I lay before you copies of certain papers relative to the Spanish interference in the execution of the treaty entered into in the year 1790, between the United States, and the Creek nation of Indians, together with a letter from the Secretary of State to the President of the United States, on the same subject.

G. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, November 7, 1792.