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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FRIDIy-NIGur Session.

t1OOSE VI hEfRfsSEN1htlf Id.
FRIDAY.-NIGHr SESSION.
Mr. Clay's bill for the distribution OF
the proceeds Of the Public Lands. being
under consideration, some amendments
we're adopted and several speeches made
The previsus question was put, and
Icarrled-Yeas 81, Nays DC.
The main question on ordering the bill
TO its third reading was then agreed to.
The bill was read third time, and the
question being on its passage, was decided
by yeas and nays, as follows:
YEAS Messrs. Adams, c. Allen, Ar.
mold, Babcock, Banks, Noyes Barber,
John S Barbour, Barrnger. Barstow,
Beardsley. Briggs, Butcher, Billiard, Burd,
Eleutheros Cook, Cooper. Corwin, Coult
er, Crane, Crawford. Creighton, Daniel,
j. Davis, Dearborn, Denney, Dewart,
Dickson. Ellsworth, George Evans, Ed
ward Everett, Horace, Everett, Gilmore,
Grennel, Hiland. Hall, Hester, Hodges,
Hogan. Hughes, Huntington, hire, Irwin,
Jenifer. Joseph Johnson, Kavanagh, Ken
dali. kennon, Adam King. Henry King,
Kerr, Leavitt. Le;cher, Marshall. Max
well, McCarty, Robert Mccoy, McKen-
nan, Mercer. .Milligan, Mublenburg
Nelson, Newton, Pearce, Pendleton, Pier
son, Pitcher, Potts, Randolph, John Read
Root, Russell, Aug H. Shepherd
Slade, Smith, Southland, Stapbury,
Stewart, Sutherland, Taylor. Philemon
Thomas, John Thomson, Tomkins, Yer
planck, Vinton, WardwelI, Washington,
Watmough, Wilkin, Elisha, Nhittlesey,
Frederick Whittlesey, Edward ID. White,
Wickllffe, Williams - 96
NAY .--.Nessrs. Alexander, Archer, Ash
ley, Barnweil. Bethume, John Blair, Boon,
Cambreleng, Carr, Chin, Claiborn, Clay,
Coke, Duncan, Fielder, Gordon, Griffin,
William Hall. Hawkins, Horn, Isacks,
Jarvis, Richard M. Johnson, Lacempte,
Lewis, Lyon, Mardis, Mason, VIM Nc
Coy, Mclntire Nc Kay, Plummer, Roane,
SewaIl. Standefer, Wiley. Thomas Ward,
Camp. P. White, Worthington.--40.
SO the bill was passed and returned to
the Senate
The Charleston Courier, (Union par
ty) of the 9th thus halls the news ofthe
concurrent passage of the Act of Con
gress for modifying the Tariff and the
Act for enforcing the Collection of the
Revenue:
"LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM WASH.
INGToN.-The Union sared-the Cor.
eminent erect'-The letter of our Wash.
mgton Correspondent, contains the HIGH
ly important intelligence, that both the
new Tariff Bill, and the Revenue Col.
lection Bill, have passed both houses OF
.Congress-the latter by an overwhelm,
ing majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives. Our National Government
has thus wisely displayed its strength;
the consciousness of power in the sup
port Of the People, at the very moment
that it prudently and magnanimous-
~ adopted a measure of Cancellation.
We rejoice in the simultaneous passage
of these two bills: either, without the
other, may have led to incalculable
mischief. The measure reconciliation
by Itself would have been Wanted as
an evidence of imbecility in the govern.
ment-the measure of coercion by it,
self may have given strength to disaf
lection, and fastened the catastrophe
of our republic. We rejoice that the
government has rendered to our politi
cal opponents compromise which they
deem satisfactory, without in the leas
compromising its honor and dignity
We rejoice that the American Eagle
has maintained its characteristic anC
becoming attitude, presenting the olive
branch in one talon and the thunderbol
in the other"
MIssoURI.-The subioined resolu
ton passed the House ofRepresentative.
of Missouri, on the 18th ultimo, by {
vote of "a to s. If this vote be appa
rently directly at odds with other votes
of the same body, it is their business
not ours, to reconcile the inconsistency
The last vote stands good at any rate
until they mullty it by another:
Resolred By the House of Represent.
atires ofthe State ofMissouri, That we
10 disapprove of the principle of Null
hcation as avowed blythe State ofSouth
Carolina, as being inconsistent with the
compact existing between the United
States, and that we fully concur in the
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