Monday, December 2, 1793

Proceedings in the Senate.

This being the day fixed by the constitution for the annual meeting of Congress, the following members of the Senate appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats.

John Adams, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.

John Langdon and Samuel Livermore, from New Hampshire.

George Cabot, from Massachusetts.

Oliver Ellsworth, from Connecticut.

Moses Robinson, from Vermont.

Aaron Burr, from New York.

John Rutherford, from New Jersey.

Robert Morris and Albert Gallatin, from Pennsylvania.

James Monroe, from Virginia.

John Edwards, from Kentucky.

Benjamin Hawkins, from North Carolina.

Ralph Izard, from South Carolina.

Mr. Langdon, the President of the Senate pro tempore, administered the oath required by law to the Vice President of the United States.

The Secretary read the credentials of the following Senators appointed for the terms respectively mentioned therein.

Pierce Butler, from South Carolina.

Alexander Martin, from North Carolina.

John Vining, from Delaware.

The Vice President administered the oath required by law to Mr. Butler, Mr. Gallatin, and Mr. Martin, respectively, and they took their seats.

Stephen Mix Mitchell, appointed by the State of Connecticut a Senator for two years, in the place of Roger Sherman, deceased, produced his credentials, which being read, the Vice President administered to him the oath required by law, and he took his seat.

The Vice President laid before the Senate the petition of Conrad Laub and others, relative to the appointment of Mr. Gallatin, a Senator of the United States; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

The Vice President also communicated a letter from George Read, of Delaware, resigning his seat in the Senate; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate is assembled, and ready to proceed to business.

Ordered, that Messrs. Izard and Langdon be a joint committee on the part of the Senate, together with such committee as the House of Representatives may appoint, on their part, 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 that he may be pleased to make to them.

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House had elected Frederick A. Muhlenberg their Speaker, and that they have concurred with the Senate in appointing a joint committee to wait on the President of the United States.

Mr. Izard, from the joint committee who had waited on the President, reported that the President would meet the two Houses to-morrow, at 12 o'clock, in the Senate Chamber.