The resolution was then put and adopted by the same vote.

Thus Mr.Gallatin, thirteen years a resident of the country, a large land-holder in Virginia, and for several terms a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, was excluded from a seat in the Senate of the United States.
Mr.Gallatin conducted his case with great dignity.

On being asked whether he had any testimony to produce, he replied, in writing, that there was not sufficient matter charged in the petition and proved by the testimony to vacate his seat, and declined to go to the expense of collecting evidence until that preliminary question was settled.
Short as the period was during which Mr.Gallatin held his seat, it was long enough for him seriously to annoy the Federal leaders.

Indeed, it is questionable whether, if he had delayed his embarrassing motion, a majority of the Senate could have been secured against him.

Certain it is that the Committee on Elections, appointed on December 11, did not send in its report until the day after Mr.Gallatin moved his resolution, calling upon the secretary of the treasury for an elaborate statement of the debt on January 1, 1794, under distinct heads, including the balances to creditor States, a statement of loans, domestic and foreign, contracted from the beginning of the government, statements of exports and imports; finally for a summary statement of the receipts and expenditures to the last day of December, 1790, _distinguishing the moneys received under each branch of the revenue and the moneys expended under each of the appropriations, and stating the balances of each branch of the revenue remaining unexpended on that day_, and also calling for similar and separate statements for the years 1791, 1792, 1793.