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WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPT. 8. is4i.
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WAsHiNsToN.-Om latest dates to the Isl inst On the Slst u in Senate, the bill to pay the eX- penses of President Harison's funeral rerl a third time and passed.

 Mr. Henderson from P. O. Committee, reported a bill appropriating S4s7 657 for the payment of mail contractors, with amendment proposing that 3D. OOe of it should he allotted to the purchase of new hooks and the appointment of thirteen new clerks. Mir. II. was for immediate consideration. Mir. Call houn asked for days delay consider the bill-re- fused. Mir. Levier opposed the appointment of thir- teen new clerks-he said there already ftty-two ia Mir. Whittelsy's bureau. MT. Benton said the reason thirteen new clerks were wanted was that tried and competent democratic clerks had been turned out and the green-horns not able 10 get through the business-next year there would be another demand. The Postmaster had been so busy in turning and utng Postmasters in (at the rate of l3O per week. that he had time to attend to the finances of his department The amendment was agreed to- Mir. Benton (says letter wrer) moved to amend the bill by adding clause to take the franking privilege from members of Congress. Al present member of Congress has the privilege of iankng the whole year round; member forty days before he takes his seat, and ex-member nine months af- ter his time expires. This is extremely burden some to the department, and the great abuse of the privilege during the last summer by the Whg Exc cuti,e Committee of Congress, has aided considera- by in getting the department into its present embar rassments. John c. Clark, of the committee, has boasted that he repeatedly franked ten thousand packages in a day, consisting of Ogle's speeches, Botts' Hooe case, Poinsett's standing army, Sc. Mir. Bedton's amendment voted down by strict party vote, after animated discussion The ques- lion then takenon ordering the bill to be engross- e1, and carried-ayes p, noes l5.

 The House has finished all the 'leef'' business for which it was assenbled-so says Mir. Fillmore hundred members to their feet at the annunca tion. The adjournment will take place in week, it is said