The original resolution being again before the Senate, Mr.Clark renewed his amendment declaring that John P.Stockton was not elected a senator from New Jersey, on which the _yeas_ were 22 and the _nays_ 21.

As thus amended the resolution passed by 23 _yeas_ to 20 _nays_.

Mr.Riddle of Delaware voted with the majority for the purpose of moving a reconsideration on a succeeding day--a privilege from which he was excluded by the action of Mr.Clark of New Hampshire, who made the motion at once with the object of securing its defeat and thereby exhausting all power to renew the controversy.

Mr.Clark of course voted against his own motion, and with its rejection Mr.Stockton ceased to be a member of the Senate.
More than half of those who sustained Mr.Stockton's right to his seat were Republicans, or had, until the current session of Congress, acted with the party.

The majority of a single vote by which he was ejected would have been neutralized if Mr.Stockton's colleague could have been present.