Daily National Intelligencer

CONGRESS.

IN SENATE--FRIDAY, JAN. 24.

Mr. Roberts reported a bill establishing the salaries of the Messengers in the Executive Departments.

Mr. Chase reported a bill to provide for the punishment of crimes and offences committed within the Indian boundaries.

Mr. Morrow reported a bill for the division of certain quarter sections in future sales of the public lands.

These bills were severally read and passed to a second reading.

The bill to provide for the prompt settlement of the public accounts, was discussed, amended, reported by the committee of the whole to the Senate, and then postponed to Friday.

The bill from the other House to amend the Claims' Law, was taken up, considered, and postponed to Wednesday.

The Senate adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

Mr. McKee, of Kentucky, moved the following resolutions of enquiry:

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and, if any, what offices, created during the war, have become useless by the return of peace.

Resolved. That the said committee be instructed to enquire into the expediency of abolishing all useless and unnecessary offices.

Resolved. That the said committee be instructed to enquire into the expediency of disqualifying any person from holding two offices at the same time.

Resolved. That the said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of equalizing the pay and emoluments of the officers and persons employed in the civil, military and naval departments of the Government.

The resolutions were agreed to without a division, and a committee of five ordered to be appointed accordingly.

On motion of Mr. Langdon,

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be required to lay before this House a statement of the annual expenditures at the Military Academy at West Point, from its commencement to this time: also, the number of Students who have annually entered, or completed their education in said Academy: and also what number of persons therein educated, are now retained in the Army of the United States, and the offices in which they severally serve.

The House then proceeded to the order of the day on the bill further to prevent the fitting out, in the ports of the United States, of expeditions against nations in amity with the United States. In committee of the whole, Mr. Jackson in the chair.

There arose on this question a debate of more real importance, certainly, than any that has taken place at the present session: the result of which was, the reporting of the bill to the House, without essential amendment.

The House adjourned, without acting further on the bill, a little before sun-down. [Sketch of the debate hereafter.]