HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
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About three hours Of the time of the House
We're taken up to-day, in discussing . bill
providing that the public printing, after the
present Congress, should be given outby con
tract 10 the lowest bidder. The resolution was
passei--yeas l25, nays rs.


A message was received, stating that the
President had signed the bill to pay the vol
unteers and oIher troops called out for the pros,
ecution of the war.


The bill making appropriations for the army
came back from the Senate, and a committee
OF conference was appointed ON the disagreeing
amendments. a4fa7 3Gfta


The House, in Committee, took up the bllsl
to separate the duties of the Secretary Of State
from the Patent Office and confer them on the
Attorney General, and increase his salary from
$500 10 $600O Heis ,i8f"


After debate, the Committee rose, and the
House adjourned s, .4 s,ge