The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-01-23
CONGRESS- DURING THE WEEK.

Congress proceeds slowly with its business
Wednesday, in the Senate, after the presenta-
ton of memorials by Messrs Clay and Hale, and
the proceedings in relation to them, of which we
have spoken in another column, the Senate re-
sumed the consideration Of the bill to oede the
public lands to the States in which they lie on
condition that they shall severally convey said
lands to actual settlers.
| Mr.. Walker closed his remarks in support Of it,
and Mr. Benton then moved to amend, by insert
ing the substance of the bill for graduating and
aoceerating the sale Of public lands latey intro
duced by him. The bill was postponed till
Wednesday following, Mr. Seward having the
floor.
Thursday and Friday, the days were chiefly &C.
cupied in the Senate by Truman Smith, who de-
livered long speech in support Of the French
Spoliation bill The Senate adjourned over till
Monday.
The House was engaged w ednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, on Postage Reform Friday, the Cheap
Postage bill was taken out of Committee Of the
Whole ON the state Of the Union and the House
proceeded to vote upon the amendments A mo-
ton to lay the bill on the table failed-yeas o.
nays 80 The amendments were all separately
agreed to, the third reading Of the bill was or
dered, the previous question was seconded and
the yeas and nays were ordered on the passage of
the billiard 1t was then psssed-yeas 1870, nays
75-as follows:
YRAs-Messrs Alexander, Allen, Andrews,
Ashmun, Bennett, Bingham, Bokce, Booth, Bow
lin, Breck, Briggs, Brisbin Brooks, Buell. Bur-
rows, Butler, Cable, Calvin, Campbell, Casey,
Chandler, Clarke, Cleveland, Cole, Conger, Cor
win, Crowell, Danner, Deberry, Dickey, Dim
mick, Do,y, Duncan, Durkee, A. Evans, N, Evans,
Fitch, Fowler, Freddy GERRY, Giddings Gil
bort, Gilmore, Goodenow, Gott, Gould, Grinnell,
Holloway, Hammond, Hampton, Harlan, Hay,
Raymond, Henry, IIilliard, Holmes, Howard,
Howe, Hunter, William T. Jackson, Julian, Kerr,
James G. King, John A. King, Preston King
La sere, Letter, Litle6eld, ii. Mann, Job Mann,
Marshall, Matteson, Mcdonald, Mcdowell, Nc
Gauphey, McKiesock, McLsnshan, r. M. Nc
Lane. Mclean, Meacham, John X. Miller, DAN
lei +. Miller, Moore, Moreheed, Morris, Morri-
son. Morton, Nelson, Ogle, Odds, Otis, Peaslee,
Peck. PheniI, Pitman, Potter, Putnam, Reed,
Reynolds, Risley, Robbins, Rockwell, Root, Rose,
Rumsey, Sackett, Sswtellc, Schenck, Schermer-
horn, Schoolcrsft, Sylvester, SPslding, Sprsgue,
Stanly, 4. L. stanton, otetson, iayior, James
Thompson, Thurman, Tuck, Underhill, Van
DYKE, Vinton, Waldo Wentworth, White, Whit
tlesey. Wilmot, Wright, and Young-l3o.
Nsys-Messrs. Albertson, Aston, Ashe, Az
erett, Bay, Bayiy, Bcale, Bocock Bovdon, Bowie,
BOYD, William J. Brown, Burt, Z. Darlington
Cabeii, G. A. Caldwell, Joseph p. Caldwell, Cart
ter. Clingman, Williamson X. w Cobb, Colcock,
Daniel, Disney, Duer, Durham Edmundsop,
Ewing. Featherston, Fuller, German, Green,
Hall, Hamilton, HARRISON, lsham @. Harris,
sampson w. Harris Thomas L. Harris iioag-
land Holiday, Houston, Inge, Joseph w: Jack
son. Andrew johnson, James l.. Johnson, Robert
w. johnson, Jones, Kaufman, McMulIen, Nc
Queen, Melville, Meade, MIllson Morse, Orr,
Outlsw. Parker, Penn, Phelps, Powell, Richard
SOU Robinson, Ross, Savage, Seldom, X. ii. Stan
ton, Sweetser, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, John
Il. Thompson, Toombs, Venable, Wallace, Wat
fins, Wsllborn, and Williams--7s.
Sixty Of the seventy five nays, and about twenty
Of the one hundred and thirty yeas, were from
the slsveholdisg States With one or two er-
csptiors, the opposition To the bill, from the free
States, came from lIupker Democrats.
The provisions Of the bill are the following