HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

 .March l7.-Mr. WSckiife submitted
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Ju0rCh ll.-Air. V3cftiUe submitted resolution directing the committee on private land claims, to inquire into the conduct of the Commissioner of inc Ge- neral Land office, touching an official request made to that officer by the com mittee on the public lands. The reso- lution was amended, by directing the inquiry to be made by the committee on the judiciary, and agreed to.

 .1iarch 2l.-The House resumed the consideration of the amendments pro- posed by the committee on the public lands to the bill from the Senate, enti- tied "An act supplementary to the se- veral laws for the sale Of the public lands.'

 Mir. Wiekli iqe moved farther to amend the bill by adding to the psoviso a clause, the effect of which was to allow

 settler sssso ssso tad tad iniproved;s t little spot to purchase the quarter section he oc- eupied, without including land that he did not want.

 The question was about to be taken, when Mir. Huat moved to amend the amendment by inserting the word ssquar- ter.n so as to allow only one quarter quarter section tol be entered by the same individual.

 The amendment was opposed by Messrs. Duncan and Wfkl!0e, and ad- Socated at considerable length by the mover, who thought that if the object waste accommodate suchpooremigrant: as were not able to buy eighty acres Q land, his amendment would meet the case, while it prevented speculation and an abuse of the law. Mir. H. con sluded hy moving to postpone the far