CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.



Correspondence ofthe New-Yoik Trlbuns.


WAsHiNGroN, Saturday, March I6
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The SENATE was not IN session to-day.


In the House, the report of Mr.. SIMoNs ot Ct.
from the Select Committee for the investigation
Of alleged abuses in the contracts for engraving
and lithographng Cor the House for the 25lh and
26th CONGRESSES came up-the resolution with
which it concludes providing for the appointment
ola Standing Committee OF three upon engray
ina to whom shall be referred all propositions Tor
engraving, lithograpmg, &c.--previous to the
work being ordered by the House.


This subject gave rise to debate o an hour or
an hour and a hall-the rules having been sus-
pended at the close Of the morning hOtr Tor the
disposition of the matter-ln which MIR. SIMoNs
deprecated the Iooseness and abuses which had
heretofore existed in the contracts for engraving
and pointed out several instances IN which several
hundreds of dollars more had been paid than their
execution could have been obtained Tor. Mt.
ADAMS called for the names Of the individuals I'M
picated but Mr.. S. declined to give them, say
ing, if the Committee was appointed and 1t was
then the pleasure of the House, they would report
them The resolutions ordering d Standing Com
m,tee on Engraving, was finally adopted


MIR ADAMS moved suspension OF the rules Tor
the reception of a resolution, 10 which Objection
had been made, calling for information from The
President as to the circumstances OF the Oorr IN
s,lrrcction in Rhode Island, the measures taken
by him to quell it, nc. Refused Yeas 10,
Nays g..


After debate, two or three private bills were
passed one was reconsdered and rejected and
the House--or the mere skeleton of the House
not discovering in the satisfaction Of the many
long. deferred claims Of the worthy and INDECENT
soldiers, seamen and others, sufficient Importance
to deserve their attention. adjourned at about hall
past two O'Clock, unembarrassed even by the ac
custoIncd calls for the Yeas and Nays OF MeSsrs.
CAVE JOHNSON, WENTWORTH, HALE, and others,
who boast so loudly of their patriotic demonstra.
tons in that way upon ordinary occasions OF dull
and useless debate. ARGUS.