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xXXVIITM CONGRESS-Extra Session.
WAsHINGroN, July 16, 1861.
SENATE.
Mr.. SUMNER presented petition for the
abolition of slavery, and remunerating such
owners as will be impoverished.
Mr. PoMEkoY introduced a bill for the reiiei
of M. o. Roberts, in payment for the steamer
Star of the West, lost in government service.
Referred to the committee on claims.
Mr.. TRUMBULL reported a bill in relation to
the district attorneys in the several districts.
Referred.
Mr.. MCDoUGALL offered a resolution in re-.
gard to the Pacific Railroad being made a mil
itary road, ard moved to refer the subject to a
select committee of five.
Mr.. LATHAM said he had prepared a bill on
the subject, which he should offer to morrow,
to go to the same committee. The motion
was agreed to.
The house bill for the relief of the widows
and orphans of those lost in the last war was
passed.
Mr.. HALE reported bill for an assistant
secretary Of the navy, and for the better or
ganization OF the marine corps. Laid over.
The naval appropriation bill was then taken
up, and Mr.. Grimes offered an amendment
that no patented article be used on board the
United States vessels, or in the navy yard,
until submitted to a proper board, and duly
recommended; Withdrawn.
Mr.. THOMPSON offered an amendment
making an appropriation to finish Stevens
battery. 1t was discussed at some length
when the hour for special order arrived and
the resolution approving the acts of the presi.
dent was taken up.
Mr.. BREcKINRIDGE proceeded, and spoke
at some length in opposition to the resolution
closing with the hope that after the frenzy of
the hour had passed, divine IrOvidence would
save out OF the wreck of the Union the price
less principles OF liberty and self government
Mr.. LANE said he sanctioned all the presi-
dent had done, and the people sanctioned it,
anu lie sanctioned all that is TO be done when
our victorious columns shall sweep treason
from old Virginia. The president has sus
pended the writ of habeas corpus and he only
regretted that the corpus OF Baltimore treason
had not been suspended. If MIR. Breckenridge
had been elected president would he have
refused to defend the capital against a threat
ening armed rebellion ? He believed not and
he then alluded to the seizure of Geographic
dispatches, which procedure had been charac-
terized by Breckenridge as an usurpation of
power, and he thought they might implicate
certain senators on this floor He had read TO-
day in paper that certain senator telegraph
ed that the "Lincon's congress" would not be
allowed to meet here ON the 4th.
Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE replied, that the state
ment that he (Breckinridge) had telegraphed
JEFF. Davis, or written him, that Kentucky
would furnish him 1000 armed men, was like
other charges, totally false; and he had been
informed by the governor of Kentucky that
the charge with respect to him was equally
false
Mr.. LANE then defended the suppression of
certain traltorous newspapers, the disarming
of people in rebellion, and other acts which
M
Ausion had been made to the compromise of
the last session, but he would only say that
none was made, because traitors occupied the
vacant seats. All we now ask is the Kentucky
remedy for treason, hemp.
The subject was then postponed to Thurs
day, and the naval appropriation bill was
taken up. The amendment relative to the
Stevens battery was disagreed to, and the bill
was passed After an executive session, ad-
journed.
HOUSE.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE, from the committee on
commerce, reported a bill to make the block.
ade more etfectual, and put stop to piracy.
1t was in accordance with the views of the
secretary OF the treasury and navy, and Com.
Paulding asked its immediate consideration
The bill authorizes during the present insur-
rection, the secretary of war TO hire purchase
or contract for the vessels necessary to a tenn
porary increase Of the navy, and to arm them
efficiently ; the temporary appointments to be
made of acting lieutenants, acting paymasters
acting surgeons, masters, and masters mates,
and the rates of pay for these officers, and
those heretofore designated, are by this bill lie.
galized and approved. Three millions are APP
propriated for carrying the act into effect.
Mr.. BURNETT wanted it referred to the COM
mittee Of the whole on the state of the Union
On motion Of Mr. WAsHBURN it was refer
red 10 the committee on naval affairs.
The house committee considered the bill to
increase the efficiency of the volunteer forces,
and Mr. BLAIR of Missouri explained its pro
visions, whereupon Mr.. Burnett made an
hours speech, indicating the seeded states
and condemning the warlike acts OF the adj
mnstration.
Mr., HOLMAN spoke for crushing out treason
and to the effect that the Union must aud shall
be preserved, and then the bill to increase the
efficiency OF the volunteer forces passed.
Adjourned.