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epSSidt oIuetS lOT next week.
The Military Academy bill wa.
read third time and passed.
The bill granting alternate soc
lions of land in Michigan in aid ofthe
canal round the Falls of St. Marv's
connecting Lakes Michigan and Su
perlor, was taken up.
The bill was discussed by Messrs.
Bright, Davis, of Miss, Davis ofMass.
Underwood, Smith, Felch. Cass and
others.
The bill was ordered to be en-
crossed for : third reading.
On motto. of Mr.. Badger. il was
ordered tfat when The Senate adj
Jcurn, 1t do adjourn to Monday.
The Senate, OH motion of Mr.
Hamlin, went into executive session.
and when the doors were opened the
Senate adjourned.
In the House, the morn,no hour
having expired, Mr.. p. King, Of New
York, moved that the House proceed
to the consideration of the business
on the Speakers table. 1t was car
rled in the affirmative, and
The Texas boundary bill and the
proposed amendments were taken
up.
Mr.. Clarke, Of New York who
was entitled to the floor, replied to
the remarks of Mr.. Brooks, of ves-
terday. He said that with him and
his constituents the Milmot proyiso.
or more properly the groviso of 81,
was sentiment or an abiding prin,
cipie. lie alluded to the abandon
ment OF the proviso by Mr.. Brooks.
and SAID that the gentleman in the
New York Convention introduced
resolutions strongly enforcinp the
WiImot Proviso, and that # sbo"IJ ,1J
be forever applied to our territories:
and that now he had abandoned il
because, as he alleges, it was merely
used then for the purpose of ar. ST.
ing the progress Of the American a,,nos
in Mexico. no
Why, said Mr.. Clarke. tbe Mop;-
can war had terminated six monfhs
before the resolutions were penned
and introduced INTO that conyention
Mr' Clarke then examined into the
claim OF Texas, TO show that She had
no right to the territory claimed bv
her and in dispute between her and
New MeN'co. He, for one. should
vote against paying her a dollar fnr
iand that did not belong to her.
m Mr' oorman defended the hight Of
5a peNas TO all The territory east of the
NO Orande, comprehending Santa
lie and all the inhabited portion Of
New Mexico, or nearly so. Hr
viewed the junction of the extremists
OF the North and South-the junction
OF the ultra slavery men and the free
sou men against this bill as porten-
I'VE OF great evil to the country. He
advocated the passage fthe bill, and
maintained ir! that it could not be pass
ed INT were not for the New Yorl
representatives, who were so acting
as as TO place the responsibility of using
OF t' not IN certain contingency, the
!mrllltary power of the country against
ne warned them that their CON
duct was leading this country TO a
cNil war. Before CONCLUDING, how
ever should civil war come. which
ne prayed God TO avert, he womId l'b, ba
lound where the flag ofhis country
was found. He concluded bv de-
= ilounclng the Wilmot proviso asbav-
ing been brought forth by ingenuity.
ana that it had had an iniuuitons
race,
Mr.. Daniel obtained the floor, but
yielded to a motion thatsthe House
adjourn, and itaccordingly adjourned
In the Senate, on Tuesday, 1th
lnst;' the bill to suppress to slave
trade III the District of Columbia
was taken up.
Mr. Clay explained it, and urged
its passage.
MIR. Focte offered" his amendment
authorizing the authorities of the
District of Columbia to pass laws en-
the subject of the slave trade and the
abduction.of slaves.
Mr.. Pearce submitted an amend
ment in two branches -one making
1T a penitentiary offence to entice or
induce slave torun away; and the
other conterring upon the levy court
and corporations of the District pow
er to prohibit immigration Of free
negroes.
Mr.. Pearce exclaimed that for the
offences contemplated by the first
branch of his amendment the law of