The Native American

CONGRESS.

The joint resolution, offered by Mr. Webster as a substitute for Mr. Clay's, repealing the Treasury Order, known as the Specie Circular, passed the Senate on Tuesday last, by a vote of yeas 34, nays 9; and on Wednesday it passed the House of Representatives by a vote of yeas 154, nays 29. It is in the following form:

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c. That it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to make, or to continue in force, any general order which shall create any difference between the different branches of revenue, as to the money or medium of payment in which debts or dues accruing to the United States may be paid."

The bill to extend the charters of the District banks passed the House, as it was reported from the Senate, in the following form, by a vote of—yeas 131, nays 45.

Be it enacted, &c. That the charters of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Georgetown, the Bank of the Metropolis, Patriotic Bank of Washington, and Bank of Washington, in the city of Washington, and the Farmers' Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomac, in the town of Alexandria, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the fourth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty: Provided, The said banks, each for itself, shall conform to the following conditions:

First. To cease receiving or paying out all paper currency of less denomination than five dollars, on or before the day of the promulgation of this act.

Second. To redeem all their notes of the denomination of five dollars in gold or silver, from and after the first day of August, in the present year.

Third. To resume specie payments in full, on or before the first day of January, 1839, or sooner, if the principal banks of Baltimore and Richmond should sooner resume specie payments in full.

The House has since been warmly engaged in discussing the Cherokee question, which yesterday led to a very unpleasant scene between two of the Tennessee Representation, which we sincerely regret.