The Rhode Island Republican

CONGRESS

Monday, Feb. 14.-In the Senate numerous memorials were presented for the repeal of the law of last Session, relative to the removal of the south-western Indians. Two on the subject from Massachusetts, by Mr Webster- one from Pittsburg, signed by upwards of 700 inhabitants, by Mr. Marks--one by Mr. Barnard, from Luzerne, Pennsylvania-and one from friends of the Administration at Hartwick, New York.

Mr. Barnard presented a petition from Philadelphia, praying a modification of the tariff law of 1828, in respect of duty on imported flax, and as it respected manufactures made from the same.

Mr. Woodbury, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill for a drawback of duty on imported foreign Iron.

The debate on Mr. Grundy's resolution relative to the Post Office Inquiry was not resumed; and it has, for the present, terminated. --On the resolution being again taken up for consideration, Mr. Holmes stated that they had come to a conclusion on both sides, that the subject matter had undergone sufficient discussion, and that he was, therefore, induced to move that the resolution be laid on the table, with the understanding that the sense of the Senate be taken on its merits on the following day (to-morrow) at 1 o'clock. This was agreed to; after which the Senate went into consideration of Executive business, and then adjourned.

The House of Representatives were exclusively occupied in the consideration of petitions, Mr. Edward Everett having succeeded in bringing on the discussion of which he gave notice on the preceding Monday, on the petition of the inhabitants of Berkshire, enforcing the necessity of preserving the sanctity of our treaties with the Indians. Great opposition was made to the taking up of the subject, and- an attempt was made to prevent it by a demand of the question of consideration--which after some discussion on a point of order, was agreed to--the vote being, ayes 101, noes 93. The House therefore agreed to go into the discussion of the question.

Mr. Everett then spoke in defence of his motion, which is to refer the petition to the Committee on Indian Affairs, with instructions to report a bill making further provision for executing the laws of the United States on the subject of intercourse with the Indian tribes, and also for a faithful observance of the treaties between the United States and said tribes Mr. Everett spoke at length. The House adjourned before he had concluded

Tuesday, Feb. 15.--In the Senate, various memorials were presented against the removal of the Southern Indians. The credentials of the election of the Hon. Gideon Tomlinson as a Senator from the State of Connecticut, for six years from the 3d of March next, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Willey, whose term then expires, were presented by Mr. Foot.

Mr. Clayton introduced a bill to compensate the officers and soldiers at Fort Delaware for the losses and injuries they sustained by the late calamity at the Fort.

The sense of the Senate was taken on Mr. Grundy's resolution, as modified by the amendment of Mr. Livingston, which goes to declare that the Special Committee on Inquiry into the Post Office Department are not authorized to inquire into the causes why the Postmaster General dismissed his Deputies; and the resolution was carried by a vote of 24 to 21.

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Buchanan reported a bill from the Committee on the Judiciary, to remove the Circuit and District Courts of the United States from Lexington, New Hampshire, to Concord, in the same State.

Mr. Verplanck, from the Special Committee appointed on the subject, reported a bill to establish an Assay Office of the United States Mint in North Carolina and Georgia.

The bill for the relief of Susan Decatur was taken up, on the motion of Mr. Doddridge, for the re-consideration of the former vote on the subject, and on the question of engrossment for a third reading, it was rejected by a vote of 99 to 90.

Wednesday, Feb. 16.-In the Senate, memorials against the removal of the Southern Indians were presented by Mr. Robbins of Rhode Island, Mr. Sprague of Maine and Mr. Barnard of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill relative to the organization of the Militia in the District of Columbia.

The bill for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen was read a third time and passed.

The bill to authorize the extension and construction of a lateral branch of the Ohio and Baltimore Rail Road through the District of Columbia was, together with sundry other bills from the House of Representatives, forwarded through the preliminary stages, and referred for revision.

Several private and local bills were considered as in Committee of the whole, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading; after which the Senate adjourned.

The House of Representatives was engaged in legislation- on the Military Pension Bill, and the claims of individuals for pensions. The length of the debate on the Post Office resolution in the Senate, and the press of their matter, prevents our publication of the report of the proceedings.