 From the ~. r. American. CONGREsSS.
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 MT. Hendricks offered a. resolution for en- quiring into the expediency cfrelinguishina.. in full property to the nesc states all the pablic lands lying ,cithin those states, which he sup- ported at some length, proceeding upon the ground that the constitution did not authorl ise the general government to hold lands, ex- cept sDr specified purposes, arsenals, dock yards &c. and insisting, that though in the act. admitting these states to the Union, cx- press reservation is made to the United States of the property insthese lands, there was no right to make such reservation, and that the new states. though acquieseing in it at the time, are not bound by it. The resolution was read, but no order was taken upon it. .

 A discussion then arose on the bill for a. polishing imprisonment for debt, Mr. Taze- well took part against, and Messrs. Berrein, Van Buren, Kane and Macon for the bill, which was made the order of the day for FIi-