The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-13

The Senate reassembled at G o'clock MIR.
FITCH, from the Committee on Printing reported in
favor ot printing the usual number of majority and
minority reports of the Select Committee on Print
ing. Agreed to.-A majority of the same com
mittee reported the House bill establishing gov
ernment printing -Otice.-Mr. DAVIS, from the
minority OF the committee, reported substitute
for the bill in relation to public printing.
thousand extra copies of the Mechanical part of
the Patent Office Report were ordered to be printed
"A substitute for the House bill for the sale of
the Military Asylum at Parrodsburg, Ken
tuGEky, was passed The Civil Appropriation
bill was resumed.--The amendment modify
ing the contract with Messrs. Gales and Seat6n
for the publication of American State pa
pers was considered at -engtb Mr.. SLIDELL
cOntended that if the amendment was adopted
gratuity of S66,000 would be given them
Mr.. FITCH defended the amendment as being Just
and denied that there was such an excess 1t pro-
tected the interest of the Government. After a
very lengthy debate, the amendment was agreed
to.-The amendment apprOpriating $40 900 Tor
the distribution of seeds and cuttings by the Pat
ent Office was stricken out, but afterwards re-
stored.-ln the debate which took place Mr..
lNERSON showed that the Agricultural Bureau
had abused the appropriations. by paying the funds
out as mere sinecures, and buying seeds in New
0rk and Pennsylvania, and distributing them in
other sections at an immense expense to the Gov
eTnment, when they could be bought in anv State,
In any town in the count v.-Mr BROWN de-
nounced the thing as humbug, and doubted if the
Patent Office sent anv valuable seeds through
out the country.-Mr. WILSON intimated that
the Agricultural Bureau was about to investigate
the cattle disease.-Mr. BROWN hoped that the
nation would not turn COW doctors.-Mr. NAL
LoRl said the Agricultural reports were made up
cut OF material plagiarized from books that ought
TO To De IN the library of every agricuturalist.-
The bill was considered until after 10 o. CLOCK when
the Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES..
Inc House passed the Senate joint resolutions pro-
vlaine as I"ioWs Authorizing vessel connected
with the Coast Survey to proceed beyond the limits
OF the United States, for purposes connected with
the observation of the eclipse of the sun on the 18Th
of July; to supply Switzerland and the Naval
Academy each with copy Of the results of Wilkes
exploring expeditions: to supply the Cherokee and
ChlcEasaw nations with such copies of laws and
journals furnished the organized territories.
Mr. GROW, from the Joint C mmittee of
Conference on the disagreeing amendments to the
Post-olhce Deficiency bill, reported that they
unable to agree. he moved that the House recede
from its disagreement to the first amendment of
the Senate, and agree to the Senate's amendment
with an amendment providing that the SER
vice between Charleston and Key West shall be
performed in the same time as was prescribed in
the contract with the Isabel land that the Isabel
shall be paid for the service actually performed at
the rate prescribed in the contract The amend
ment restores all the service discontinued or cur
tailed since the 4th of March, 1859 eXcept on
the route from NeOsho to Albuquerque and from
Kansas city to Stockton, and parts of route 8 O76
west OF FL Passo leaving tie discretion of the Post
master General the same as under the existing law
to discontinue or cur tail servce.-After some
conversation the amendment of Mr.. GROW was
agreed to-yeaS l23, nays 53.-Mr. VALLAN-
DlGHAM made an unsuccessful effort to call up
the Dill heretofore reported by him, to amend the
law for arming and equipping the militia by appro-
priatng $500, 900 annually for that purpose =
Mr.. GURLEY from the Committee on Printing
reported resolution, that in addition to the
usual number, there be printed for the use of the
PatentofHce 10 900 copies OF the Mechanical portion
office repDrt. fO tha II