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WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE Speaker
announced the appointment of Mr.. Hart, of
New York, as a member of the Committee
on the District of Columbia, in place Of Mr..
Davis, resigned.
The Speaker also announced the special
committee on Mr.. Blaines resolution rela-
tive to reimbursing the loyal States for mon
ey appropriated to put down the rebellion,
as follows: Baine, of Maine, Hooper, of
Massachusetts,, Loan, of Missousi, BOyce, of
Pennsylvania, Darling, ofNew York, Plants
of Ohio, Smith of Kentucky, and Terry of
Michigan.
The following is the committee to inquire
into the condition of the late so-called Con-
federate States Mr.. Stevens, of Penn
sylvania; Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont Mr.. Grider, of
Kentucky Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio; Mr..
Conklin, of New York Mr.. Boutwell,, of
Massachusetts,; Mr.. Blow, of Missouri, and
Mr.. Rogers, of New Jersey.
WASHBURNE, of Illinois, introduced a
resolution providing for an adjournment
over the holidays. This was, after debate,
amended, fixing the time from the goth Of
December to the 9th of January. The reso-
luton as amended passed.
STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
bill appropriating $4,000 for repairing and
furnishing the Presidents house, and bill
for the payment of invalid and other pen
sions, which were passed.
HENDERSON, of Oregon, offered a reso-
luton declaring that treason against the
United States Government is crime that
ought to be punished, which was passed
unanimously.
Mr.. STEPHENS also reported bill max
ing appropriations for the support of the
West Point Academy. Referred to a Com
mittee of the Whole and made a special
order of the day for January 18th.
Mr.. DAVIS, of New York, Introduced
bill. which was referred to the Committee
on Roads and Canals, providing that the
bridge at Albany shall be highway for
the purposes authorized by the New York
Legislature and may be used as postal
route of the United States.
Mr.. LAFLIN, of New York, from the
Committee on Printing, reported a resolu-
ton that twenty thousand extra copies of
General Grants report, without covers,
be printed for the use of the headquarters of
the armies of the United States.
Mr.. WASHBURNE suggested that it
should be fifty thousand, as the report was
so long that few papers outside of New York
Mr.. LAFLIN replied that the Committee
were anxious to give full circulation to the
report, but they could not neglect their
duty, and thOughtlt high time to enter on the
work of retrenchment. DESTROYS as they
were TO compliment the author, they
could not transcend their ideas Of ecOno-
my. The Report would be ten cents per
copy with covers and seven cents without
covers. A million and a halfof dollars viii
be demanded for public printing, and it is
time retrenchment should begin.
Mr. WRIGHT introduced bill, which
was referred to the Committee on Commerce,
euIogizing the Secretary of the Treasury,
and also authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to purchase a site for a Custom
House and ware house at Jersey City, and
making an appropriation for the erection of
the buildings.
Mr. CLARK, of Kansas, introduced bill,
which was referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs, to equalize the bounty TO
soldiers by providing for uniform bounty
of 500 per year, computing for the whole
period of servive, and counting the whole
term of enlistment. In cases of honorable
discharge by reason of disability incurred
in the service, or because their services
were no longer required, all bounties to be
deducted from the regular allowance. In
case of death the money to go: First to the
widow; second, to the children: third, to
the father, if loyal and a resident of the
United States fourth, to the mother; nth,
TO the brothers and sisters
Mr. DONNELLY IN rJdI c the following,
which was agreed to:
WHEREAS: Republican institutions can
find permanent safety only upon the basis
of universal intelligence of the people, and,
WHEREAS, The great disasters which have
afflicted the nation and drenehed one-half
of its territory in blood, are tracable in
great degree TO the absence Of common
schools and liberal education among the
people of the rebellious States, therefore
Resolved, That the Joint Committee on
Reconstruction be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of establishing in this
Capitol a National Bureau of Education,
whose duty it shall be to enforce education,
without regard to race or color, upon the
population of all such States as shall fall
below a standard to be established by Con-
gress, and to inquire whether such bureau
should not be made an essential and para
mount portion of the system Of recon-
struetion.
Mr.. SLOAN, of Wisconsin, asked leave to
introduce the following:
Resolved, That the Committee on Roads
and Canals be directed to inquire whether
persons visiting the national capital fE0n