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So the motion was agreed to.
The Senate stands adjourned to Monday next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The journal Of yesterday was read in part and
Gu further reading having been dispensed WITH
was approved.
Mr.. BoWLIN asked leave to make a motion.
but its purport was not heard by the reporter and
it was objected to.
Mr.. RATHBUN moved that the House resolve
itself into Committee of the Whole on the state of
the Union, but Withdrew the motion at the request
of Mr.. DoBBN.
Mr.. PAYNE rose and asked leave to make per-
sonal explanation.
Leave being granted,
Mr.. p. proceeded, amid some interruptions on
points Of order to aude to the inquiry put by him yes
erday in the discussion upon the river and harbor bill
to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. BRIsKERHoFF,
upon which side of Mason and Dixon's line the for
fcaon bill proposed the larger amount of appropra-
tons, and to the genteman's reply rpon the south
aide, much the larger. By examining into the fortfca-
ton bill which had passed this session, it was found
that, including the coas, Of Maryland from its north
ern boundary the amount appropriated to the South
did exceed that for the North by Sl3l 900. 1t
should be borne in mind, however, that this south
ern coast thus provided for extended from the
northern boundary Of Maryland to the mouth OF
the Rio del Norte, End also running up the Misss-
sssippi, the Red, and the Arkansas rivers; and Ia.
king the whole extent Of all this line Of coasts and
rivers the line from the northern boundary of Mary
land to the mouth Of the Columbia river-provided
you keep upon our existing boundar would not ex-
coed ii in distance. Notwithstanding this immense ex-
ofcoas and river the appropriations for that sec
ton OF the Union only exceeded those ofthe northern
section drumming around a very small distance) by
Sl3 600. There was then two dollars appropria-
ted to the North to dollar the South in pro-
portion to the respective distances TO be fortified in
the two sections Of the cosntry.
But take the two bills together-.the fortfcaon
bill and the harbor and river bill--they found that
the northern section Of the Union received the larger
amount by nearly $4,000
His statement then, was absolutely true. These
bills were sectional, and the larger amount Of ap-
proprlatons-much the arger-was appropriated
upon that small area Of northern coast not equang
by one-half the extent of coast together with the
lines of improvement contemplated for the South in
these appropriations,
Mr.. BRINKERHOFF Oeave being granted for
repy) said certainly he had disposition to place
the gentleman in false position nor did he now
perceive wherein he had done so. The gentleman
did not take issue with him upon any matter of fact
menti ned by him; he did not only not contradict,
but he admitted the fact, that in the fertilization bill
consid eraby the larger amount wos appropriated to
the southern country from Maryland down.
But the gentleman said that the coast from the
northern boundary of Maryland around to the Rio
Grande was more extended than the seacoast from
the northern boundary Of Maryland northeasterly,
to Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. But the gen
tleman must remember that this did not include the
whole northern frontier. The coast from the north
ern boundary Of Maryland to the Rio Grande did
include the whole southern frontier. But the gen.
tleman must remember after we got to New Bruins
wick, we had another frontier extending along be-
tween the United States and Canada away to Lake
SuperioT--the country on the other side Of which
frontier was occupied by foreign power. And il
that northern frontier included with the northeast
coast and the distance Of both compared with the
distance from the northern boundary Of Maryla TO
the Rio Grande, we found that the former was
much greater than the latter. And hence il mere
distance to be the crtsrion the appropriations
for the northern section Of the country should be
the larger.
Here the conversation dropped.
CONTESTED ELEcrIoN FROM KEW JERsET.
Mr.. DoBBlN rose, and gave notice that he
would, tomorrow, move to take up the report from