19th.  Attended  again  the  committee  of  enquiry1  at  ten.  We
read  his  papers  for  nearly  two  hours,  without  getting  through
them.  We  were  then  summoned  to  attend  the  Senate.  My
proposed  amendment  to  the  Potomac  Bridge  bill  was  taken  up,
and,  with  some  alteration,  adopted.  Other  amendments  also
were  offered,  and  adopted  or  rejected.  Mr.  Anderson  finally
moved  two  additional  sections,  to  lie  for  consideration.  On
the  questions  this  day  taken  the  Senate  were  divided  very
equally.  The  alteration,  on  the  amendment  proposed  by  me,
was  decided  by  the  Vice-President,  the  votes  being  fourteen
and  fourteen.  Between  three  and  four  o'clock  the  Senate  ad-
journed until  six,  expecting  the  House  would,  before  they  rose,
decide  on  our  Embargo  bill.  But,  after  sitting  until  five,  they
adjourned  over  to  Monday,  without  taking  a  final  question  upon
the  bill.  I  did  not  leave  the  Capitol.  Mr.  Timms,  our  deputy
door-keeper,  gave  me  some  dinner  in  a  committee  room  of  the
House  of  Representatives.  At  six,  without  waiting  for  a  quo-
rum, or  for  the  Vice-President,  the  members  of  the  Senate
present,  with  the  Secretary,  adjourned  to  Monday  morning.
2 1st.  Met  the  committee  of  enquiry  at  ten  this  morning.
The  remainder  of  Mr.  Smith's  papers  were  read,  and  there  was
some  discussion  respecting  his  answer,  and  the  papers  to  be
printed.  I  had  the  sketch  of  a  report  prepared,  and  was  ready
to  read  it;  but  the  time  was  not  allowed.  In  Senate,  the
Potomac  Bridge  bill  was  passed  as  amended  to  a  third  reading,
without  much  debate — by  a  sort  of  agreement  of  General
Smith  of  Maryland,  whose  real  opposition  against  it  seems  a
little  doubtful.     The  bill  for  extending  the  right  of  suffrage  in

1  In  the  case  of  John  Smith.
