The Alexandria Herald

FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

CONGRESS.

PROCEEDINGS OF MONDAY, DEC. 21.

IN SENATE.

The President laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting the annual report of the commissioners of the Revenue, respecting direct tax and internal duties.

The resolutions submitted on Friday by Mr. Wilson and by Mr. King were taken up and agreed to.

Mr. Daggett submitted a motion to instruct the committee on pensions to enquire into the expediency of so amending the act of the last session granting pensions to the soldiers, &c. of the revolutionary army, as that lieutenants of marines acting under a warrant, shall be considered as entitled to the same pension as those acting under commission.

The bill to enable the people of Alabama to form a constitution, &c. was read the second time.

The President laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting statements of the sales of the public lands.

The bill to give effect to the laws of the Union, in the State of Illinois, was read the third time, passed and sent to the other house.

The Senate went into the consideration of Executive business; after which the Senate adjourned.

Mr. Strong, of Mass. appeared and took his seat.

Mr. Campbell, from a select committee, reported a bill to provide for taking the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States: which was twice read and committed.

Mr. Robertson, from the select committee appointed on that subject, reported a bill establishing a separate territorial government for the southern part of the territory of Missouri: which was twice read and committed.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. from the military committee, reported a bill concerning the Military Establishment of the United States. This bill proposes a modification of part of the Staff of the Army, without reducing it.

The bill was twice read and committed.

The bill from the Senate to extend the laws of the United States within the state of Illinois, was twice read and committed.

The verbal amendment made by the Senate to the bill granting a pension to Major Gen. John Stark, was agreed to.

The resolution for a temporary adjournment of Congress, offered on Friday last by Mr. Poindexter, was, on motion of Mr. Taylor, immediately postponed.

The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Holmes in the chair, on the bill making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year 1819.

The bill was then reported to the house, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

After spending a short time in committee of the whole, on a claim, the committee obtained leave to sit again thereon—and the house adjourned.