Mr. Orsamus B. Matteson, of New York; Mr. Nathan T. Stratton, of New Jersey; Mr. Edward Dickinson, of Massachusetts; Mr. George Bliss, of Ohio; Mr. Samuel Clark, of Michigan; and Mr. Francis M. Bristow, of Kentucky.

Committee of Ways and Means.--Mr. George S. Houston, of Alabama; Mr. George W. Jones, of Tennessee; Mr. Harry Hibbard, of New Hampshire; Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; Mr. John S. Phelps, of Missouri; Mr. William Appleton, of Massachusetts; Mr. John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky; Mr. Solomon G. Haven, of New York; and Mr. John Robbins, jr., of Pennsylvania.

Committee of Claims.-Mr. Alfred P. Edgerton, of Ohio; Mr. John Letcher, of Virginia; Mr. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio; Mr. Carlton B. Curtis, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Daniel Mace, of Indiana; Mr. John G. Miller, of Missouri; Mr. Thomas Ruffin, of North Carolina; Mr. Charles Ready, of Tennessee; and Mr. William W. Boyce, of South Carolina.

Committee on Commerce.-Mr. Thos. J. D. Fuller, of Maine; Mr. John S. Millson, of Virginia; Mr. John Wentworth, of Illinois; Mr. Tappan Wentworth, of Massachusetts; Mr. William Aiken, of South Carolina; Mr. Aaron Harlan, of Ohio; Mr. George W. Morrison, of New Hampshire; Mr. William Dunbar, of Louisiana; and Mr. Reuben E. Fenton, of New York.

Committee on Public Lands.-Mr. David T. Disney, of Ohio; Mr. W. R. W. Cobb, of Alabama; Mr. Henry Bennett, of New York; Mr. Bernhart Henn, of Iowa; Mr. Milton S. Latham, of California; Mr. Isaac E. Hiester, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Hestor L. Stevens, of Michigan; Mr. Samuel Caruthers, of Missouri; and Mr. Edward A. Warren, of Arkansas.

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.-Mr. Edson B. Olds, of Ohio; Mr. Paulus Powell, of Virginia; Mr. C. W. Upham, of Massachusetts; Mr. D. T. Jones, of New York; Mr. W. P. Harris, of Mississippi; Mr. Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Jesse O. Norton, of Illinois; Mr. J. A. McDougall, of California; and Mr. Joshua Vansant, of Maryland.

Committee for the District of Columbia.-Mr. William T. Hamilton, of Maryland; Mr. William O. Goode, of Virginia; Mr. Richard Yates, of Illinois; Mr. John G. Davis, of Indiana; Mr. David A. Noble, of Michigan; Mr. John Dick, of Pennsylvania; Mr. William S. Barry, of Mississippi; Mr. William Cullom, of Tennessee; and Mr. John J. Taylor, of New York.

Committee on the Judiciary.-Mr. Frederick P. Stanton, of Tennessee; Mr. John S. Caskie, of Virginia; Mr. James Meacham, of Vermont ; Mr. Origen S. Seymour, of Connecticut; Mr. Samuel W. Parker, of Indiana; Mr. Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania; Mr. John Kerr, of North Carolina; Mr. Francis B. Cutting, of New York; and Mr. Henry May, of Maryland.

Committee on Revolutionary Claims.-Mr. R. W. Peckham, of New York; Mr. Augustus Drum, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Moses B. Corwin, of Ohio; Mr. John M. Elliott, of Kentucky; Mr. Jacob Shower, of Maryland; Mr. Sion H. Rogers, of North Carolina; Mr. James C.

Allen, of Illinois; Mr. Samuel L. Crocker, of Massachusetts; and Mr. Norman Eddy, of Indiana.

Committee on Public Expenditures.-Mr. William H. Kurtz, of Pennsylvania; Mr. George Hastings, of New York; Mr. Alexander C. M. Pennington, of New Jersey; Mr. Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina; Mr. James C. Allen, of Illinois; Mr. Robert M. Bugg, of Tennessee; Mr. David Stuart, of Michigan; Mr. John Z. Goodrich, of Massachusetts; and Mr. Alexander De Witt, of Massachusetts.

Committee on Private Land Claims.-Mr. Junius Hillyer, of Georgia; Mr. James H. Lane, of Indiana; Mr. James Abercrombie, of Alabama; Mr. P. H. Bell, of Texas; Mr. Samuel A. Smith, of Tennessee; Mr. Roland Jones, of Louisiana; Mr. Charles Hughes, of New York; Mr. Matthias H. Nichols, of Ohio; and Mr. Theodoric R. Westbrook, of New York.

Committee on Manufactures.-Mr. John McNair, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Thomas Davis, of Rhode Island; Mr. John R. Franklin, of Maryland; Mr. Hiram Walbridge, of New York; Mr. George W. Kittredge, of New Hampshire; Mr. Samuel Mayall, of Maine; Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, of Illinois; Mr. James F. Dowdell, of Alabama; and Mr. Caleb Lyon, of New York.

Committee on Agriculture.-Mr. John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Fayette McMullen, of Virginia; Mr. Willis Allen, of Illinois; Mr. R. C. Puryear, of North Carolina; Mr. W. D. Lindsley, of Ohio; Mr. Samuel Clark, of Michigan; Mr. William Murray, of New York; Mr. John P. Cook, of Iowa; and Mr. Samuel Lilly, of New Jersey.

Committee on Indian Affairs.-Mr. James L. Orr, of South Carolina; Mr. Ben C. Eastman, of Wisconsin; Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Edward Ball, of Ohio; Mr. Augustus E. Maxwell, of Florida; Mr. Daniel B. Wright, of Mississippi; Mr. Alfred B. Greenwood, of Arkansas; Mr. Benjamin Pringle, of New York; and Mr. Milton S. Latham, of California.

Committee on Military Affairs.—Mr. William H. Bissell, of Illinois; Mr. Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri; Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, of Virginia; Mr. Thomas M. Howe, of Pennsylvania; Mr. William R. Smith, of Alabama; Mr. Nathaniel P. Banks, jr., of Massachusetts; Mr. J. A. McDougall, of California; Mr. Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee; and Mr. Theodore G. Hunt, of Louisiana.

Committee on the Militia.-Mr. Elijah W. Chastain, of Georgia; Mr. Jared V. Peck, of New York; Mr. William Everhart, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Zedekiah Kidwell, of Virginia; Mr. William R. Sapp, of Ohio; Mr. Samuel P. Benson, of Maine; Mr. John B. Macy, of Wisconsin; Mr. Edward Wade, of Ohio; and Mr. James Maurice, of New York.

Committee on Naval Affairs.-Mr. Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia; Mr. Moses Macdonald, of Maine; Mr. George W. Chase, of New York; Mr. William S. Ashe, of North Carolina; Mr. T. B. Florence, of Pennsylvania; Mr. F. K. Zollicoffer, of Tennessee; Mr. Charles Skelton, of New Jersey; Mr. A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia; and Mr. Augustus R. Sollers, of Maryland.

Committee on Foreign Affairs.-Mr. Thomas H. Bayly, of Virginia; Mr. Sampson W. Harris, of Alabama; Mr. Joseph R. Chandler, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Colin M. Ingersoll, of Connecticut; Mr. Thomas L.

Clingman, of North Carolina; Mr. Wilson Shannon, of Ohio; Mr. William Preston, of Kentucky; Mr. John Perkins, jr., of Louisiana; and Mr. John J. Taylor, of New York.

Committee on the Territories.-Mr. William A. Richardson, of Illinois; Mr. John McQueen, of South Carolina; Mr. John L. Taylor, of Ohio; Mr. D. J. Bailey, of Georgia; Mr. G. W. Smyth, of Texas; Mr. E. Wilder Farley, of Maine; Mr. William H. English, of Indiana; Mr. Philip Phillips, of Alabama; and Mr. A. W. Lamb, of Missouri.

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.-Mr. William M. Churchwell, of Tennessee; Mr. Henry A. Edmundson, of Virginia; Mr. Israel Washburn, jr., of Maine; Mr. Peter Rowe, of New York; Mr. Ner Middleswarth, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Andrew Ellison, of Ohio; Mr. James J. Lindley, of Missouri; Mr. Smith Miller, of Indiana; and Thomas T. Flagler, of New York.

Committee on Invalid Pensions.-Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana; Mr. Christian M. Straub, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Russell Sage, of New York; Mr. George Vail, of New Jersey; Mr. James S. Chrisman, of Kentucky; Mr. Andrew Stuart, of Ohio; Mr. W. B. W. Dent, of Georgia; Mr. J. Wiley Edmands, of Massachusetts; and Mr. William M. Tweed, of New York.

Committee on Roads and Canals.-Mr. Cyrus L. Dunham, of Indiana'; Mr. George Read Riddle, of Delaware; Mr. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio; Mr. J. T. Pratt, of Connecticut; Mr. William A. Walker, of New York; Mr. David Ritchie, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Henry M. Shaw, of North Carolina; Mr. Leander M. Cox, of Kentucky; and Mr. William Barksdale, of Mississippi.

Committee on Patents.-Mr. Benjamin B. Thurston, of Rhode Island; Mr. Samuel A. Bridges, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Andrew Tracy, of Vermont; Mr. Bishop Perkins, of New York; and Mr. Clement S. Hill, of Kentucky.

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.-Mr. Burton Craige, of North Carolina; Mr. Nathan Belcher, of Connecticut; Mr. John L. Taylor, of Ohio; Mr. Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Carolina; and Mr. Ebenezer M. Chamberlain, of Indiana.

Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.-Mr. W. R. W. Cobb, of Alabama; Mr. John McNair, of Pennsylvania; Mr. John McCulloch, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Andrew Stuart, of Ohio; and Mr. Alvah Sabin, of Vermont.

Committee on Accounts.-Mr. Carlton B. Curtis, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Andrew Oliver, of New York; Mr. Edwin B. Morgan, of New York; Mr. Thomas Ritchey, of Ohio; and Mr. Otho R. Singleton, of Mississippi.

Committee on Mileage.-Mr. Andrew J. Harlan, of Indiana; Mr. William H. Witte, of Pennsylvania; Mr. David A. Reese, of Georgia; Mr. Harvey H. Johnson, of Ohio; and Mr. James Knox, of Illinois.

Committee on Engraving.-Mr. George Read Riddle, of Delaware; Mr. Mike Walsh, of New York; and Mr. George A. Simmons, of New York.

Committee on the Library.-Mr. Joseph R. Chandler, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri; and Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, of Virginia.

Joint Committee on Printing.-Mr. William Murray, of New York; Mr. Richard H. Stanton, of Kentucky; and Mr. Samuel L. Russell, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Enrolled Bills.-Mr. Frederick W. Green, of Ohio; and Mr. Alexander De Witt, of Massachusetts.

The following committees were appointed at the last session, under the rule, for the present Congress, viz:

Committee on Expenditures in the State Department.-Mr. Daniel Wells, jr., of Wisconsin; Mr. George Vail, of New Jersey; Mr. Samuel L. Crocker, of Massachusetts; Mr. Samuel A. Smith, of Tennessee; and Mr. Thomas T. Flagler, of New York.

Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department.-Mr. David Stuart, of Michigan; Mr. Thomas W. Cumming, of New York; Mr. Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri; Mr. Michael C. Trout, of Pennsylvania; and Mr. Edward Wade, of Ohio.

Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.-Mr. George W. Kittredge, of New Hampshire; Mr. John Wheeler, of New York; Mr. Ner Middleswarth, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Davis Carpenter, of New York; and Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, of Illinois.

Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department.-Mr. Fayette McMullen, of Virginia; Mr. Thomas Ritchey, of Ohio; Mr. C. W. Upham, of Massachusetts; Mr. James F. Dowdell, of Alabama; and Mr. A. C. M. Pennington, of New Jersey.

Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.-Mr. Samuel Lilly, of New Jersey; Mr. Smith Miller, of Indiana; Mr. Samuel P. Benson, of Maine; Mr. James L. Seward, of Georgia; and Mr. James Abercrombie, of Alabama.

Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings.-Mr. Henry A. Edmundson, of Virginia; Mr. Mike Walsh, of New York; Mr. Alvah Sabin, of Vermont; Mr. Michael C. Trout, of Pennsylvania; and Mr. Thomas W. Cumming, of New York.

On motion of Mr. Houston, the vote by which it was referred to the Committee on Printing to inquire into the expediency of printing extra copies of the veto message on the river and harbor bill was reconsidered, and Mr. Houston withdrew the motion to refer.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances; which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Bernhisel, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of refunding to the Territory of Utah the expenses incurred by said Territory in suppressing Indian hostilities in the year 1853, and that said committee report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. Letcher, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the committee raised by the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 10th day of July last, be continued, and charged with the same powers and duties as at the last session of Congress.

Mr. Letcher moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Mr. Latham, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 547) to continue in force for a limited time the provisions of the act of Congress of March 3, 1851, and the second section of its supplement of January 18, 1854, so as to enable the Board of Land Commissioners in California to close their adjudications of private land titles in that State, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. George W. Smyth, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 54S) supplementary to an act entitled "An act proposing to the State of Texas the establishment of her northern and western boundaries, the relinquishment by the State of all territory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial government for New Mexico," approved September 9, 1850; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Phillips, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 549) making a further appropriation for completing the improvement of Mobile bay; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. Etheridge, by unanimous consent, gave notice of his intention to submit an amendment to the homestead bill, (H. R. 37;) which was ordered to be printed.

Mr. English, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands inquire into the expediency of providing by law that no patent shall issue for land entered under the act of the last session "to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators," except upon satisfactory proof that said land has been in the actual possession and cultivation of the person applying for such patent for the period of three years, beginning within sixty days from the date of entry, or that such person has been in the actual possession and cultivation of an adjoining farm or plantation for the same period.

Mr. Cobb, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 550) to amend an act approved 4th of August, 1854, entitled "An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual cultivators and settlers;" which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Chandler, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 551) making appropriation for completing the shelter, or harbor, at Reedy island, in the river Delaware; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Commerce.

The Speaker then resumed the call of the States for resolutions;
When,

Mr. Rogers submitted the following resolution; which lies over one day under the rule, viz:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested, if not inconsistent with the public interest, to communicate, at his earliest