& giving the name7 -.
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giving the namea ~.


-a3 Is the person alluded to member OF TINS
House,


Mr. Davis replied


81 deny the right of this House to ask, and there
fore decline to answer, the question: wnetneI am
oT am not. the author of the Spy in Washington,
or the extract from the letter referred 10 In tn
terroqatory but, at the same time, resPecuuhy
state that know the author, and know the mem
Der to whom the Spy alludes, and am prepared 10
name him here or elsewhere" :,


"That sir" said the witness, "is my answer.


To the second interrogatory the witness answer
ed ''I do"


To the third. 'Is the person alluded to is a mem
Der of the House of Representatives The an
swer was, aHe is not.n


The Chair then said, the witness, under the Or
der of the House, is therefore discharged from fur
ther examination and there IS an end OF this pro-
ceeding. He will, therefore, retire from the bar


Mr.. Owens moved that the House adjourn.


Mr. Wise hoped that the gentleman would with
draw that motion to enable him to move commu-
nication of this examination to the Senate. lCneS
Of "no, no' from all parts of the hall.


Mr. Graves asked for the yeas and nays on the
motion to adjourn; but they were refused, and the
motion prevailing,


The House adjourned.


Feb. IA great number of petitions were pre-
sented in favor of abolition in the District and &
gainst the admission of Texas. Mr.. Adams alone
presented three hundred and fifty of them, signed
by nearly thirty five thousand names. These were
presented in classes, to save time. The best way
is to measure them-hand them in by the "barrell D
Mr.. Mckay presented petitions from the inhabi-
tants of the town of Wilmington, for mail route
from Weldon, on the Roanoke, to Halifax, thence
to or near Enfield, Waynesboro, South Washing
ton, to Wilmington, and thence to Charleston s.
Carolina. Several petitions were presented from
Wisconsin Territory, and from Alabama, praying
for the right of preemption to settlers on the pub
lie lands.


Feb. 15.-The House was chiefly occupied in
discussing an 'Act to amend Act entitled an
Act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust
the claims reservations of lands under the 18th
article of the treaty with the Cherokees. The or
ders of the day were not taken up, owing to the
absence of some members, who attended on the
debates Of the Senate.