ported a bill (No. 175) to continue the national road from the Mississippi river to Jefferson city in the State of Missouri; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Chambers, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of the heirs and legal representatives of William Graham, deceased, accompanied by a bill (No. 176) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Washington, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported a bill, (No. 177) to amend the charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Jarvis, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made a report on the memorial of Mordecai Booth, accompanied by a bill (No. 178) for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States schooner Wild Cat; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Jarvis, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Lieutenant Charles H. Duryee; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Storer,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the consideration of the petition of sundry widows of revolutionary soldiers, now residing in the county of Orange, in the State of New York, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

Mr. Storer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of Leonard Bleeker and Spiery Wyatt; which reports were ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Storer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the petition of Davis Hunt, accompanied by a bill (No. 179) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Storer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the petition of William York, accompanied by a bill (No. 180) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Storer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the petition of Relief Harris, accompanied by a bill (No. 181) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill (No. 182) to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, accompanied by a report in writing; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of the heirs of John Braidfoote, deceased ; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Kinnard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the case of Jesse Potts; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Kinnard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a report on the petition of Henrietta Barnes, representative of Lathrop Allen, accompanied by a bill (No. 183) for the relief of the legal representatives of said Allen; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Beaumont, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Robert Pollard, administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Chambers, of Kentucky, from the Committee of Claims, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of George Bartol, administrator of Mary Sears, deceased, and of Augustus Sackett; which reports were ordered to le on the table.

Mr. Martin. from the Committee on the Judiciary, made a report on the memorial of Henry Gibson, accompanied by a bill (No. 184) making further compensation to the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

On motion of Mr. Fry.

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the case of Lemuel Tobey, and that the sane do lie on the table.

Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Colonel Christopher Clarke; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business, reported a bill (No. 185) to extend the time of issuing certificates of scrip on military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business, reported a bill (No. 186) to continue in force for a limited time, an act a thorizing certain soldiers of the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof; which bill was read the first and second time, and the further consideration was postponed undil Tuesday the 26th instant.

Mr Huntsman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made unfavorable reports on the petition of the heirs of Charles Stewart, and on the petition of the heirs of George Fead; which reports were ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following resolution; which was read and agreed to by the House, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Manufactures be instructed to inquire what plates ordered by the House of Representatives, in the publication of Dr. Mease's Silk Manual, are now not in use, and upon what terms the said plates may be used by the biographer of Samuel Slater; and to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the sale of said plates.

Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following resolution; which was read and laid on the table one day under the rule, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this House a statement of the length and cost of the several portions of the

national road west of the Ohio river which have been completed; also the length and cost, so far as any expense has been incurred upon the same, of such other portions of the said road as have been located, opened, and graduated, or in part constructed, distinguishing respectively in such statement, the cost of the location, opening, graduation, bridges, masonry and stone covering of the various parts of the said road; that he add to the statement an estimate of the probable cost of the residue of the said road as far as the river Mississippi; and, also, of the relative expense of graduating and covering with stone such parts of the said road as may not have been definitively located and graduated, with reference to the future use of the same as an ordinary Mcadamized road, and a rail way; and that he inform the House by what regulations the economy of the public expenditure on the said road is now secured; and, especially, whether the said road is constructed by public contracts or otherwise; and if by contracts, how the execution of these contracts is suspended.

Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the committee appointed on the message of the President of the United States, of the 17th of December ultimo, and which was laid before the House on the 21st, communicating information in relation to a bequest made by James Smithson, late of London, in the kingdon of Great Britain, deceased, to the United States, for the purpose of establishing a seminary of learning, reported, (by leave,) a bill (No. 187) to authorize the President of the United States to assert and prosecute with effect the right of the United States to the bequest of James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, accompanied by a report in writing; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

A motion was made by Mr. Chapin, that five thousand additional copies be printed of the message of the President, and the papers which accompanied the same, in relation to the bequest of James Smithson, together with the report and bill this day submitted by Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the committee to which the same was referred; which motion was laid on the table one day under the rule.

Mr. Judson, from the select committee appointed on the memorial of citizens of the town of Coventry, in the county of Tolland, in the State of Connecticut, praying that a monument may be erected to the memory of Captain Nathan Hale, made a report thereon, accompanied by a joint resolution authorizing the erection of said monument; which resolution was read the first time.

A motion was made by Mr. Pearce, of Rhode Island, that 5,000 additional copies of the said report and resolution be printed; which motion was laid on the table one day under the rule.

Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following resolution, which was read and agreed to by the House, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be constructed, by the same establishment in which the standard weights and measures for the custom-houses are now making, for each State and Territory of the Union, a complete set of standard weights and measures, equal to those now constructing for the custom-houses, and upon the same principles and modes of adjustment.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Jarvis on the 6th instant, in relation to slavery within the District of Columbia, as modified on the 13th instant.

The question recurred on the amendment moved thereto by Mr. Wise on the 6th instant.

And after debate,

The House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1836.

Mr. Briggs, from the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did yesterday present to the President of the United States an enrolled bill, (No. 10,) entitled "An act to authorize the allowance of certain charges in the accounts of the American Consul at London."

On motion of Mr. Mann, of New-York, the rule being suspended for the purpose,

The House proceeded to the consideration of the motion made by Mr. Chapin, yesterday, that five thousand extra copies of the report submitted by the select committee, together with the message of the President of the United States, correspondence, and will, relating to the bequest of James Smithson, of London, to the United States, to found at Washington an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, be printed for the use of the House.

And on the question, that the House do agree to the said motion,
It passed in the affirmative.

Mr. Lay, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the petition of James Taylor, of Massachusetts, accompanied by a bill (No. 185) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Lay, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the case of John Dal, accompanied by a bill (No. 189) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Philo C. Fuller, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Nathaniel Platt, accompanied by a bill (No. 190) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Davis, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Scioto Evans, accompanied by a bill (No. 191) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Pinckney, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill, (No. 192.) making an appropriation for a marine hospital in or near Wilmington, in the State of North Carolina; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Banks, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the case of the sureties of Nicholas Kern, accompanied by a bill (No. 193) for the relief of the said sureties; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to morrow.

Mr. Thomson, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported. a bill (No. 194) for the relief of Doctors J. E. B. Findley and A. E. Deas;.

which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow.

Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a report on the petition of Lieutenant John McDowell, accompanied by a bill (No. 195) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow

Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the case of David L. Johnson, heir of Captain James Johnson; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Chapin,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the case of the heirs of John Gordon, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, made reports in the cases of William Walker, Abraham Woodall, and Jane Brown, on behalf of the heirs of Samuel Brown; accompanied by a bill (No. 196) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Casey,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of James McClane, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Turrill, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of the heirs of William Vawter; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Uzziel Holt; which report was read and laid on the table.

Mr. Sutherland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill (No. 197) for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom, and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the State of Maine; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Martin, from the Committee on the Judiciary, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Harvey; which was read and laid on the table.

Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of James McPherson, and James Callan; which reports were laid upon the table.

The House resumed the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Jarvis, on the 6th instant, in relation to slavery in the District of Columbia, as modified on the 13th. The question recurred on the amendment, moved by Mr. Wise, on the 6th; when

Mr. Wise modified his said amendment, so as not to strike ont any portion of the resolution moved by Mr. Jarvis, but to add thereto the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That there is no power of legislation granted by the constitution to the Congress of the United States, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; and that any attempt by Congress to legislate upon the subject of the abolition of slavery, will be not only unauthorized, but manifestly dangerous to the Union of these States.