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Ihe journal OF yesterday was read and approved.


VOLUNTEERS.


Mr. WICK asked leave to offer the following
resolutions; which read for information:


R.soired That the Committee on Military Affairs be in
sucted inquire into the expediency of granting land
the officers and pryaes of the volunteer forces raised
der laws passed at the present sessions
may enlist between the LIST OF June and the st
of November in the present year.


Mr. @. w. JONES said there was very certainly
not a quorum present


Several voices. "Oh! never mind; lie, the resolu-


MT. JONES We are sworn to support the con-
sttuton. That instrument requires that a quorum
shall be present for the transaction Of business Ii
is different thing in committee.


Mr.. HOPKINS moved that the House resolve
itself into Committee of the Whole on the state of
the Union.


Mr.. WICK hoped the motion would not be press
ed until the resolution had been disposed of.


After brief conversation, the resolution was re-
ceived and adopted.


The motion of Mr.. HOPKINS having then been
agreed to, the House resolved itself into Committee
Of the Whole on the state Of the Union, (Mr CopB,
OF Georgia, in the chair,) and resumed the consid.
GRAFTON OF the bill to reduce the duty on imports,
and for other purposes.


Mr.. DIXON was entitled to the floor, and spoke
during the hour in favor Of the protective policy,
and of the tariff Of lS42


Mr.. BRINKEREI0FF addressed the committee.
Tin remarks which will appear hereafer,) not, he
said, IN formal or prepared speech, but in "plain
talk" 10 tell gentlemen his friends Of the democratic
party what they could do and what they would do,
what they could not do and what they would not do.
Although not authorized 10 speak for the democratic
delegation from Ohio, he presumed he might say
that all Of them like him. would NOT vote for the bill
reported from the Committee Of Ways and Means,