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XxxVIth CONGREss-lst SESSION
W.sH,Nsroy. January 10.

WASHINGTON, January ls.
SENATE.-Mr. Douglass resolution in
structng the judiciary to report bill for the
better suppression of invasion, &C., was spc'
cially assigned. for 1880 P. NJ, on Monday
next.
A debate of some length took place at this
point, whether the Senate had right TO
transact any business until the House or
ganizes. The Senate finally, by q vote of 45
to Z, overruled point Of order to that effect,
and referred to private bill on which Il q
debate had sprung up, to the Committee on
Private Land Claims.
Fifty-fve hundred extra copies Of the
Treasury Report were ordered to be printed
Mr.. King offered resolution proposing
Select Committee to investigate whether any
portion of the public printing appropriation
had been applied to the support Of newspapers
especially the Constitution, and Pennsytpanton
and Argus, and as to the contract, said tc
have been made by Mr., Bowman, by which
he was to receive 500, 900 per year; also
whether any member of the government wa
privy to it, and also what reduction can b.
-ic = L,vn ,nritr assAo r!hs': Adjourned iii
Monday. "
EoUsE,-Mt. Hindman made a speech
accusing the Republicans Of the respopsibilit,
OF the non-organizaton Of the House. /
they had put in nomination one who had no
indorsed the circulation of a book counseJin
rapine, insurrection and bloodshed, ther,
would have been no prolonged opposition |,
his election, or an allusion to the white slave
of the Northern factories.
debate ensued between him and M.
Gooch, of Massachusetts,, without elicitipg an
points of interest.
Mr.. Hindman said John Brown was too
OF the Republicans, and no Republican couI
skulk tho responsibility. Public opin;o,
would gibbet them as effsotually as the hen,
that strangled John Brown was already arour
their necks. If Mr.. Hickman could msrcl
his Northsrners to the South, the NortberneT
would be welcomed to hospitable graves.
The black mantle Of Republicanism covore
both Sherman and Helper. 1t wat an insu
TO the South to insist on Mr.. Sherman f
Speaker. The Democrats should unite on oi. .,
OF their own party, and vote for him to Il
end Of the contest, whether 1t ended to-morro
or the 4tb of March, 1851.
After some proceedings of no particular iu
terest. Mr.. Leake caused an article from b.
New York Courier and Enquirer to be read, al
denied that he had ever said on this floor tn
the election OF Mr.. Sherman was Just cause f.,
the dissolution Of the Union. He thought il
the initiatory step, eud If it were followed hy
the election of Mr.. Seward for President, i
would be oasus belH. He denied the truth o
the Courier's assertion that they wanted "a
reduce the six millions Of whites at the soui
to slavery.
Mr.. Pottle referred to tho recent GarriSon
Convention at Utica and Its resolutions. thu,
the New York Herald was a safe medium fl
communicating Abolition utteranoes to De
South. He advised the Abolitionists 10 patron
ize the Herald. He regretted that these prc
csedings should have been scattered over Ii O
country.
Mr.. Colfax brought out the fact, which wes
acknowledged BY several Southern Democrat,
that they have signed paper pledging them
selves to resist, by all parliamentary stratagsn,
vote on the plurality rule. House then
adjourned.