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Show CO AURCKIO A L . HOUSE. The Hiue mot at 11 o'clock, a m.. Keljcy, of New York, from the committee com-mittee of conference on the consu ar and diplomatic aTrpr-awm bib. made a report whicU was agreed to 1'he House then went into committee .vr the who!e on tho "-my appropriation appropria-tion biil: ponding which, the question being on the amendment o"crei yr-s terday by Jonc.-. of Kentucky, in rf-!a tion to tne national c.-uiuury. which after discu-sin was r-j-oud, tad the bill was laid a.-i li, to be reported te- the hou-e. ' , . Tic committee next took up tea lia reported by the committee cn foreign 4 affairs, authorizing the President to co-operate with the government - of Great Britain in the appointment of a joint comojttee, in ac:oriance with. ihe plans and estimates of Briradier General Humphreys, of the corps of ! engineers, for determining ihe boun-bary boun-bary line between the United States and the British possessions, between the Lake of the Woods and the Rocky Mountains, and an appropriation oi $Kl,iXJ annually for the expense of the work. |