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DOINGs IN CONGRESS.

In TIE HOUSE, on Saturday, after we went
to press, Mr.. Aiken reported, from the Com
mittee On Commerce, bill to change the name
of the American built brig Hallowell, to that
of James Rose, and to grant her new regis
ter passed. -r
The House then went into Committee OF
the whole House on the private calendar, (Mr
Stanton, of KY, in the chair wherein the bill
for the extension of the patent of Samuel Colt
for the improvement in FIRE arms, for seven
years from Feb. Is, 1857, was discussed by
Messrs. Pratt, Thurston, Stevens of Michigan,
McMullen, Bliss and Stanton of Tenn, for it !;
and Mess Clingman and Cutting against it.
After the Committee rose, Mr.. Letcher, by
consent, then offered the following resolution
Res2lued, That a committee Of seven members be
appointed to inquire whether money has ben offer.
I'd to MEMBERS or 0 her illegal or Improper means
used to induce members to al in ,ecurir the pas
defeat of the bill to extend Colts patent for
seven years; and also whe, her money has been
Led to members or other illegal improper
means used, Their directly indirectly, to secure
the passage defeat of any bill through Congress
AMI that said committee shall have power to send
for persons aud papers, with authority to examine
wi theses on oath,
Mr.. Jones of Louisiana, moved to lay the
resolution on the table which motion was
disagreed to.
1uc I0SOlullUu WdS tu0u dU0pSeU.
Whereupon the Speaker appointed Messrs
Letcher, Thurston, Clingman, Eliot of Massa-
chusetts, Eddy, Cutting, and Zollicofer as said
committee.
The House then adjourned
PROCEEDINGS OF TO-DAY.
In THE SENATE, to-day, Mr.. Walker moved
to take up the HON estead bill.
But this motion was not agreed to- The
Pacific telegraph bill having been set at a
special order
So this bill was reported by Mr.. Shields
from the Military Affairs Committee, and was
advocated by Mr.. Chase and opposed by Messrs
Bayard and Evans, ere we went to press.
House. -Immed lately after the reading Of
the journal some twenty members cried ou'
"Mr. Speaker! !" amid much merriment al
the earnestness of all of them. But the Speaker
proceeded to lay before the House Treasury
Department communication, with reference to
the Custom House at San Francisco referred
to the Committee of Ways and Means on mo-
ton of Mr.. Latham.
Mr.. Clingman, on the ground that he had ex-
pressed an opinion relative to the matters to
be Investigated by the special committee or
dered on Saturday last, asked that he be ex-
cused from serving on the said committee
Excused.
The first business in order being the pending
motion to suspend the rules to consider Joint
resolution to regulate and increase the pay of
certain employees blouse messengers princi.
pally) In the legislative branch of the Govern
ment, on which the yeas and nays being order
ed
The Clerk commenced to call the yeas and
nays on the motion to suspend the rules, when
he arrived at the name of Mr. Jones' of Ten
nessee, that gentleman raised a point of order
that the resolution being acted on was not YER
balm the resolution ordered by the committee
to be reported to the House.
This motion led to a long conversatio nal
discussion, in which many members partici
pated
The Speaker then ordered the intsrpolated
words to be stricken out, when the voting
yeas 1O7, nays47 -
IT was then moved to suspend the rule by
which this resolution was required to 60 to the
Committee Of the Whole before being acted
upon in the House; agreed to-ayes 1Oi.
noes A.