Litchfield Enquirer

The Pension Bill passed the Senate of the United States on Saturday the 19th inst. by a vote of 24 to 19—all the members present from New-England voting in the affirmative. We were under the impression that the bill which has now passed the Senate was the same, or with some slight amendments, which had previously passed the other house; but from the following paragraph from the National Intelligencer of the 21st inst. it appears otherwise. What course will be taken between the houses remains to be seen: Nothing has yet been done:

"The bill to explain and extend somewhat the Revolutionary Pension system, passed its third reading in the Senate on Saturday, and was sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence. We doubt whether it is generally comprehended by the Public how this matter stands between the two Houses. Bills upon the subject were reported early in the season, in both Houses, differing in their details, but having the same general object, the bill of the House occupying a wider ground than that of the Senate. Each House has taken up and passed its own bill; and the bill of each House is depending in the other. The House passed its bill the first; but the Senate, objecting to the extent of it, preferred its own bill. The bill which has now passed the Senate is substantially the same as that which passed the House of Representatives by a large majority at the last session, but at too late a day for the Senate to act upon it. If the two Houses should disagree now upon the relative merit of the details of the two bills, it may happen that, though bills have passed both Houses, neither will become a law."