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Messrs. Petut and Schenck ssverally asked
to be allowed clerk for the Select Commit
tees on the subject Of the alleged Webster i'm
proprieties, but the request was refused.
Mr.. Petit asked to be excused from serving
as chairman, and


Mr.. Holmes, of S. c., moved to discharge
the committee.


But the House did not acqulesce.


Mr. Douglass, from the Committee on Ter
rltorles, made an Intellectual effort to Introduce
a bill providing for the admission OF Wiscon-
SIN into the Union as State.


The remainder OF the day was devoted to
the consideration of private business.