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THE ARMY BILL PASSED WITHOUT
THE PR0VISO.
CONGRESS ADJOURNED SINE DIE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 80.


House.--Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, obtained
unanimous consent to report by direction of the
Committee on Ways and Meaus, a bill making
appropriations for the army. He said it wa.
the old army bill with the following proviso
that no part of the military force of the U. s
for the support of which appropriations are made
by this act. shall be employed in aid of the en-.
forcement of any enactment heretofore passed
in the bodies claiming to BE- the Territorial
Legislatures Of Kansas.
Moving call OF the House, motion agreed
to--l89 members answered to their names. -
The doors were then closed to hear excuses
from absentees. The bill then passed as ori-
gnally reported by vote OF 90 against TO-
Probably SO 10 90-ED.)
A message was then received from the SEN
ate r4turning the army bill with an amendment
striking out the proviso. The House under The
operation of the previous question then concur,
red in the provisO. by yeas lO1, nays 98.
Mr.. Whitney asked, but did not obtain leave
to introduce bill TO repeal certain enactments
Of the Kansas Legislature. and TO define and
secure the rights of the people in that terrific
ry.
A message was here received from The
President that he had signed She Army bill.
Mr.. Grow offered a resolution that the Pres.
ident be respectfully requested to direct the
District attorney for the Territory of Kansas
to apply to the proper Court for leave to en-
ter nolle prosequi in all the indictments
now pending for tre 'son or tnv other political
offence alleged to have been committed in that
Territory. The question OF this resolution
was defeated by calling the yeas and nays
on a motion to adjourn until a time concur
rently fixed for the termination of the session
at half past 3 o'clock when the Speaker de-
clared .he House adjourned sine die.
Senate.--On motion OF Mr. Clay a resolu-
ton was adopted, requiring the Secretary Of
the Interior to report next session the amount
required to pay ths allowances proposed prov!-
ding for the settlement Of the claims OF the Off.
GERS OF the Revolutionary Army, and of the
widows and children of those who died in the
service, Mr., Houston said, although he had
taken but very little par: in the discussion
which had been INDUCED in, in the Senate re-
Gently, he had not been an inattentive or un-
concerned listener. He had seen 10 years of
service in the Senate, and 80 years ago was in
the Public Councils ofthe Country, but during
the whole time of his service he had not seen
a crisis like the present, portending such evils
tothe peace and even threatening the perpetuity
ofthe Republic.
He wished it was in his power to cast oil up
onthe troubled waters, and should be glad to
see senator's cooperating in different work
than exasperating the irritable of the North,
and producing more alienation than now exists.
1t is evident to everybody that the tunes are
sadly out of joint, and there must be son oc-
casion for it-thers must be some latent dis.
ease that requires remedy, and thus the frst
step in seeking to produce better state Of
things, and give peace and tranquility to the
country, would be to go back 10 the first princi-