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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SE-NATK. The Senate resumed the cou.-iJcra- tion of the resolution, as amended by j the House, for the appointment of a commissioner to San Domingo, the question being upon Sumner's mi tion to amend the House amendment, by adding therete, ' and the commissioners commission-ers shall inquire especially into the al leged pendeucy of civil war m San Domingo, Do-mingo, and the state of the territory oocup ed by the oppo.-iug parties;" also as to the rodou-.between the existing ex-isting government of San Domingo and the neighboring republic of Hayti: and the pendency of any claim, tciii-torial tciii-torial or pecuniary, by tlie latter upon the former; and whether any war now exists or is menauced between these two governments. Saulobury u.Q .-ed,as a further amendment, amend-ment, to add. "aud. providing i'urtner, that Benjamin V. Curtis, .Miiiard Fillmore Fill-more and Gen. V. T. Sherman be the commissioners.'' HOISE. Wilson, ot'Ohio, from the committee on agriculture, reported a bill to procure pro-cure and disseminate information as to the extent of cereal crops in other countries, requiring such information to be furnished by the V. S. consuls: passed. Wilson also reponed a hill to prevent pre-vent cruelty to animals, while in transit tran-sit by railroad or other means of transportation, trans-portation, forbidding them to be con-tined con-tined in railroad ears longer than twenty-eight consecuiive hours, without unloading to give the cattle rest, water and feed, for at least five consecutive hours; except prevented by contingen-c.es. contingen-c.es. He explained that, the bill did not apply to steamboats, where arrangements ar-rangements were made to feed and water cattle. Eldredge thought the bill repugnant, repug-nant, and, after some discus-ion, on a vote by the tellers, there were only lo4 members voting, which lacked fourteen of a quorum. In a second vote by the tellers, the vote was sti'l less, many members being attracted to the ociiaie chamber by the Dominican debate. The motion to adjourn was then made, and, pending tlie vote on it by yeas and nays, the Speaker laid before the House a telegram from Governor Geary, announcing the death of John Covode, |