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Show pemdcrallc tneiiabcrs orvtho, Senate Jerstbod, to;.bo bqsily engaged In "Xplotform, respecting slavery In rilories, .,. - . ie House, Mr, Morrill, 6f Vt:, inj dijbiUtopnnUh.andpVeve.nttiio i ef polygamy in the.Territorics of ted States, and other daces, and svjeg nnd annulling certain nets of ;shitivq Awcnjbly ol the Territory i J . which wus read a first and ii c and referred to tl.o.;CoinmitteB Judiciary. " '- - ?Iark, or Missouri: I nsk that that 'eferrwl to tbe Committee on Ter- ea?t?T,18;'motio, come too lo bill has beca referred, and to 't. committee;, Cl1 ' -?AUoar.omes too ?ne J.H has. been referred Stevens; of Pennsylvania, also the following, resolution; which consfileredr and agreed to k 'ed That the CommitUe on the V he instructed to Inquirp into the fl otiprohibiting polygamy in ru,.and ,60 , to, modlfy-tlie laws'of to-make the future' commission offend poualjn that Territory. amdman orArkvjiptroduced'lhe 'retoiaUo;' which was read, fd. and agreed to: "Resolved, Committee on Public Landrf be d to inquire into the expediency a( redncfeg o twetttnr4 cetijl'pcr acre, a'favorfef actH'al settlers, ihc'pn'co of Ue hijjir'theUnSirtcsX d sJc ovpr, tc?r years. Mn,Grow, or Pa., Intraccdfa blH for the adasteaiou. of Kama.jts4ie Union, aad refcrrcdLte, the Cowratk-o on Terri-tories,", Terri-tories,", . . Mi. drow atsb presented: a illf to 4 enra bdmeateada, to acttMl aettlera apou tlie paWip domain which, was rcodja first al.cceid time, aid referred o ilii Com-mi"i;AgricHltnro. Com-mi"i;AgricHltnro. 3r''Ht,0 oI N. Mexico, iujroduccd a bill to organize the Territory of NcVadai which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Tcrri-loriea.. Tcrri-loriea.. ', -4 Mr. Clark, of. Missouri, also Introdaced a bill for the relief of the survivors-of the SafeletteCat-of massacre, on the 24th of Jhly, for the loss of proportysus-tained proportysus-tained by1- them' at tho time, find, for the payment; tr certain persons ?6t the expenses'1 ex-penses'1 Incurred by thehj in sending those who were iurVirorsr to; their homes iu Mjssonrij: "which was read a first and aecwid tiradj and reTcrrcd to tho Chh-raiUee Chh-raiUee ou Indian Affairs. Mr.Pryor of Va.oircred the following re-solutidnf re-solutidnf Whlcli wiis rdad, considered, and ngh.ed to: 'Resolved, That the President Presi-dent bo requested to commnnicnto4o tho House, if not Incompatible with 'the pub-i lie. interests, any correspondence that mny have occurred between the Department of State and the Government of Great Britain, Bri-tain, touching the occupation of the island is-land of San Juan, - Tho House1 committee on Territories have under consideration tho subject of Territorial ' Governments for Nevada, Pikc'a Peak and Dacotah. Bills, it is said, Will be reported in these cases presently pre-sently in the last named. The committee Contemplate nothing further for Arizona at present, than a surveyor-general and judicial district. , Ou the 20th, tho Senate concurred with the House .in Appropriating' $10,000 for the expense of inaugurating the Washington Washing-ton Statue, s -The.Jf, Y Wribunc, say a, Senatpr'Polk having returned, there is Jipw a majority On the Committee of Foreign Rotations favorable to reporting the Mexican Treaty, but as the prospect of a ratification is discouraging, no movement will probably be, made until the arrival, of Senor Oeampo,-who is oxpectcd iu about three weeks, with the fullest discretion to. accept whatever modifications may promiso its success. t i $6 Pnblice Printer had been elected at latest dates ..' Mr. Sherman introduced rf bill, which vas. adopted, instructing the, & OCom-niitteq OCom-niitteq to inquire into -thecX)cdiency of reporting "a' !bill, for "thoVditision of . the territbrml jurisdfctipntpf tho UlSinto postal dUtricts oiqt less'thah one State eilch; seboiui, the. Jetting of the entire postal ' service; inclndlng tho deliyeryof mail matter in such districts,' to tho loy-, est 'rcsponsiblo blddert over post .routes; thirdly, 1110' reorganTzatjon of tnb."P2 ,0, p.e'partmcnt1 and" mall scrvico to confortn to tl)e forfgoiugjprqpositlofi; fourtl,,thd abolition of tho frauking privileged . ' |