HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
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After debate, the bill to pay the mileage and
per diem Of members was passed.


L was contended, in the course of the de-
bale. that the appropriation should be made in
the General Appropriation bill, now before the
Senate, that th epeople would not have a fave
rable opinion of such contradislinction, pro-
viding Tor the pay OF members now, and for
other officers OF the Government hereafter; and
that they would be obnoxious 10 censure.--
However, some OF these gentlemen did not
repudiate the old axiom, sIhat preservation is
the first law Of nature" as well as oil Con !,
gressmen.


Nearly all the amendments Of the Senate to
the Army bill were concurred 10. aa


The Navy Pension bill was passed, without
debate, and makes the following Appropriation,
viz


TO pay invalid pensions, thirty two ,hous-
and three hundred and thirty five dollars and
forty five cents.


10 pay the pensions Of widows Of officers,
seamen, aud marines, twelve thousand dollars.
These appropriations are Tor the year ending
the Both July, l847.
| Mr. Sims Of s. &. moved the vote by which
the bill providing for free bridge over the Po-
tomac was laid on lhe table The motion will
lie over tor the present.
| The resolution from The Senate, 10 regulate
the price OF public printing, was taken up; and
after Mr. Davis Of Kentucky made speech,
the committee ruse a fEts8i
| And The House adjourned