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CONGRESSIONAL.
CON6h ESSlONAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.

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SENATE. -i
Mr.. King presented q petition pro-
testing against the action Of the advi-
sorry board Of the Navy. Also presented
petitions in favor of general bankrupt
act. Ig
BIr. Field presented o petition asking
for bounty for sick and wounded soldiers.
Mr.. Fessenden, from the committee on
finance, reported back the bill concerning
the Judgment in the suits brought by the
United States with the Recommendation
that the amendment Of the above be disa-
greed to. The recommendation Of the
committee was adopted. He presented
letter from Mr.. Pierce of Maryland, asking
to be excused from further service on the
committee on finance. The Vice President
appointed Mr.. Rice of Minnesota to fill the
vacancy.
Mr.. Wilson, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported back the bill to
abolish the grade Of medical officers in the
service Of the United States, with the re-
commendation that it do not pass.
Mr.. Lane of Kansas, introduced bill
to provide for the extention of the Indian
titles in Kansas, and to provide for the re-
moval of the Indians. Referred. ~.
Mr. Collamer offered a resolution re-
questing the President, if not inconsist-
ent with the public interest," to transmit
to the Senate the report and accompany
ing document Of Hon. ReVerdy johnson,
as Commissioner Of the United States dur
ing last summer, at New Orleans. Adopt
ed. --4
Mr.. Colamer presented the credentials
Of Hon. Salmon Foote, reelected Senator
from Vermont.
Mr.. Davis offered resolution that Of
ter it had become manifest that an insur-
rection against the United States was
about to break out in several States,
James Buchanan, then President from
sympathy with the conspirators and their
reasonable projects, failed to take the
necessary and proper modes to prevent it,
therefore, he should receive the censnre
and condemnation of the Senate, and Of
the American people. Laid over.
Mr.. Field offered resolution instruct
ing the Committee on Foreign Relations to
enquire whether some method cannot be
devised to manifest the sympathy of Con-
gress with the suffering Lancashire opera
tives. Ordered to be printed. b..
Mr.. Wright offered q resolution that the
inquire into the expediency Of providing
by act of Congress that any loyal citizen
Of the United States who has suffered dam
age from the troops Of the States engaged
in the rebellion, may set off such damages
against any claim or demand against him
in any action at law by any such rebel
ious States, or the agent or trustees of
such States, or in any case where such
claims or demand is for the use or benefit
Of such States. Adopted. -l
Mr.. Fessenden offered the following
Resolved, That the proclamation OF the
President, of the date September 22d, 1852,
is warranted by the Constitution that the
policy of emancipation, as indicated there
in, is well adapted to hasten the restora-
ton Of peace, is well chosen as war meas
ure, and is an exercise of power with pro-
per regard to the rights Of citizens and The
perpetuity Of o free Government.
Mr.. Holman moved to lay the resolution
on the table; disagreed TO by 33 against
80. The resolution was then adopted 78
against 81. '--..
Mr.. Stevens from the committee of Ways
and Means, reported an army appropria-
ton bill for the year ending June, 1864,
which has been made the special order for
Thursday. .......
Resolution in relation to certain citizens
of Delaware was taken up. Mr.. Davis
proceeded to speak at length in favor of
the resolution, arguing that the President
had no authority, under the Constitution,
to make any such arrests. The President
had no right to suspend a law or define its
execution. After some argument, Davis
admitted that the President was ex-
cusable in arresting Gov. Moorehead, of
KY. Itwas even commendable It would
not have been inexcusable to have arrest
ed the leaders of the Hartford Convention,
or Buchanan to have arrested Phillips,
CheeVer, and those miserable misereants.
He denied that slavery was the cause of
the war. 1t was because the New England
and other States had abolished slavery and
commenced crusade against the States
which held on to it. He thought the peo-
pie would arise and reconstruct this
Union, and leave Massachusetts out in the
cold and frozen regions. If the war had
been carried on according to the principles
of the Crittenden Compromise, it would
have been finished long ago.
The Senate then went into Executive
session, and at its conclusion, adjourned.