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On motion of Mr. MALLARY, the ordered to lie for consideration.

Mr. VAN RENSSELAER, of New York, select committee, to whom was referred an inqui into the expediency of establishing a police for the Capitol, &c., reported the following joint resolution:

flour comes in only that it may go out; and it | vate nature.
would be easy to adopt regulations such as all
foreign Governments have done, who encourage
the transit of goods, to prevent breaking bulk.
But, the gentleman asks, shall we give a rival fa-
cilities to get cheaper to a market where we go
ourselves? I answer, yes; if he will pay you for
his more than makes up the difference. This
very consideration of transit toll from Canada was
holden up and largely insisted on, when the great
canal in New York was proposed. And it must
not be forgotten, that the toll on the canal was not
all the Canada flour paid us. It paid the mer-
chant on the lines something; it pays the mer-
hant at Albany something; the merchant at
New York something; and, finally, it employs
our navigation, and pays something to our tars.

The question being loudly called for from all quarters, it was taken, accordingly, on the motion of Mr. P. P. BARBOUR, to strike out the hundred and eighty-second line of the bill, "on wheat twenty-five cents per bushel," and decided in the negative-ayes 71, noes 113.

And then the Committee rose.

SATURDAY, February 28.

Mr. WEBSTER, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill, "further to amend the Judicial system of the United States."

[This bill proposes an important change in the organization of the Courts of the United States, the main features of which are as follows: The sessions of the Supreme Court to be held, hereafter, on the 4th Monday of January, instead of February in each year-the State of Kentucky is

Resolved, &c., That the police regulations of the Corporation of the City of Washington be construed to extend to the public grounds, so far as relates to the preservation of the public order.

2. That no spirituous liquors be retailed any where in the Capitol, or on the public grounds near the same, with or without licence."

3. That the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives be charged with the preservation of the floor and walls of all the apartments of the Capitol, not under the care of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, under the direction of the Speaker of the House of Repre

sentatives.

4. That the Marshal of the District of Columbia be empowered and directed to employ a deputy, during the session of Congress, to preserve order in the pas sages and apartments within the Capitol, and on the public grounds surrounding the same, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress.

The resolution was twice read and ordered to lie on the table.

OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS.

Mr. HENRY, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Board of Engineers, on the navigation of the Mississippi, made a re

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you cut off their flour from the use of our canal, you keep it at home for all that portion of the year that the St. Lawrence is closed with ice, while our canal is open. The British warehousing system did not apply to this case. Gentlemen did not seem to be aware of the advantage of the home consumption. The city of New York alone Jid not consume less than 800,000 barrels of flour annually. If Canada flour comes to New York for consumption, so much American is excluded. No matter, says the gentleman from Massachusetts, because so much more American goes abroad. Very true, if there was a market ready abroad to receive it; but this is not the case, and therefore it is a dead loss to the American farmer. Such was the fertility of the Canadian peninsula, between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and so cheap were the lands sold by the British Government, that the settler there could afford to undersell the farmer of the United States, whose land costs him ten times as much.

Mr. WEBSTER rejoined, and said that the great difficulty, if there were any, lay in telling what would be the effect of the duty if laid. Would it prevent the consumption of foreign wheat in New York? Formerly, the price was the same on both sides of the lines. Now, on account of the increased facility of getting to a market, the price is raised on this side. All that is sought by the Canadian wheat grower is to use this facility: his flour comes in only that it may go out; and it would be easy to adopt regulations such as all foreign Governments have done, who encourage the transit of goods, to prevent breaking bulk. But, the gentleman asks, shall we give a rival facilities to get cheaper to a market where we go ourselves? I answer, yes; if he will pay you for his more than makes up the difference. This very consideration of transit toll from Canada was holden up and largely insisted on, when the great canal in New York was proposed. And it must not be forgotten, that the toll on the canal was not all the Canada flour paid us. It paid the merchant on the lines something; it pays the merhant at Albany something; the merchant at New York something; and, finally, it employs our navigation, and pays something to our tars.

The question being loudly called for from all quarters, it was taken, accordingly, on the motion of Mr. P. P. BARBOUR, to strike out the hundred and eighty-second line of the bill, "on wheat twenty-five cents per bushel," and decided in the negative-ayes 71, noes 113.

And then the Committee rose.

SATURDAY, February 28.

Mr. WEBSTER, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill, "further to amend the Judicial system of the United States."

[This bill proposes an important change in the organization of the Courts of the United States, the main features of which are as follows: The sessions of the Supreme Court to be held, hereafter, on the 4th Monday of January, instead of February in each year the State of Kentucky is

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to be divided into two districts, to be called the Eastern and the Western-the State of Ohio also to be divided into two Districts in like mannerthe two Districts of Kentucky, hereafter to constitute the seventh Circuit-the two Districts of Ohio, and the District of Indiana, the Eighth Circuit-the District of Illinois and the District of Missouri, the Ninth Circuit-the two Districts of Tennessee and District of Alabama, the Tenth Circuit-the two Districts of Louisiana and the District of Mississippi, the Eleventh Circuit-that a Circuit Judge of the United States shall be appointed for each District, to constitute with the District Judge in each, a Circuit Court, &c.the compensations of the Judges are left blank, as also are the changes proposed by the bill, of the compensations of some of the existing District Judges.]

The bill was twice read and committed.

Mr. W. from the same committee, reported a bill to amend an act, entitled 'An act to amend an act for the establishment of a Territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes;" which was read twice and committed.

Mr. RICH, of Vermont, from a select committee, to whom was referred a proposition to amend the rules of the House, reported the same with an amendment, the principal effect of which would be to devote Friday and Saturday in each week to the consideration of bills and reports of a private nature.

On motion of Mr. MALLARY, the report was ordered to lie for consideration.

Mr. VAN RENSSELAER, of New York, from a select committee, to whom was referred an inquiry into the expediency of establishing a police for the Capitol, &c., reported the following joint resolution:

Resolved, &c., That the police regulations of the Corporation of the City of Washington be construed to extend to the public grounds, so far as relates to the preservation of the public order.

2. That no spirituous liquors be retailed any where in the Capitol, or on the public grounds near the same, with or without licence."

3. That the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives be charged with the preservation of the floor and walls of all the apartments of the Capitol, not under the care of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, under the direction of the Speaker of the House of Repre

sentatives.

4. That the Marshal of the District of Columbia be empowered and directed to employ a deputy, during the session of Congress, to preserve order in the passages and apartments within the Capitol, and on the public grounds surrounding the same, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress.

The resolution was twice read and ordered to lie on the table.

OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS. Mr. HENRY, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Board of Engineers, on the navigation of the Mississippi, made a re

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