Constitutional Whig

From the National Journal of yesterday.

In the Senate yesterday, only about half an hour was spent in legislative business. The Senate then closed their doors, and went into executive business.

In the House of Representatives, Mr. J. Q. Adams, from the committee on manufactures, reported a resolution calling for information as to the value of manufactures and for the views of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of the adjustment of the tariff after the payment of the public debt. It was suggested by Mr. McDuffie, that a resolution, covering nearly the same ground, prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury, had already been submitted by the committee of Ways and Means; to which Mr. Adams replied that this resolution was necessary for the committee on Manufactures to perform their duties, and that it had resulted from a conference between him, in the situation in which the House had thought proper to place him, and the Secretary of the Treasury.

Mr. McDuffie, considering that the resolution of the committee of Ways and Means ought to have precedence of the other, moved to lay the present resolution on the table, but withdrew the motion.

Mr. Condict moved to strike out the words "after the payment of the public debt," which was agreed to. Mr. Carson moved to amend by striking out the words relating to the adjustment of the public debt, and to amend by substituting words requiring the suggestion of the Secretary as to the reduction of the public debt, so as to make the amount of duties not exceeding the amount required for revenue. The amendment was withdrawn, and the resolution was agreed to. The resolution of the committee of Ways and Means, on the same subject, offered on Monday last, was taken up and agreed to.—The committee on the Post Office and Post Roads were discharged from the further consideration of the petition of the Clerks of the General Post office, praying for an increase of salaries, and it was laid on the table. The House was then occupied in the consideration of a bill, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise a claim of the United States upon the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, which was finally postponed till Tuesday. The House then resumed, in committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, the consideration of the apportionment bill.