{"character_count": 4725, "word_count": 827, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9404000043869019], "ccnet_perplexity": [2083.199951171875], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}


 |. Foremost among them, and on the i very stiFffacc of thsagssis tise aheiiiioa ques- ton. This comes up in the presentation of petitions respecting slavery and the slave trade in the District; secondly. in bills, re- ported or to be reported, for the regulation of the mail, and tue exclusion from 1t of inccndiary publications, so called and, lastly. on the report to be made by the com mittee raised under Mr. pinckney's reso- laton.

 ! ?. Next is the lost forifcation bill, dis eussed ii tho tho Senate e=. !MIF Renton's reso- latons, and in the House upon thai of Dir. Adams. The debate in the Senate Is at an end, but that ia the House is not. It waits it's turn, to be renewed when other i business shall give 1t place.

 Both of these subjects are political and partisan, more or less, in their bearings, and in the views taken of lhem by many of those seho have engaged in the debate.

 3. Thirdly the appropriation bill. which will open to discussion all the policy of the Government, and all the interests of the country foreign and domestic. Very large appropriations, for the contingent possibili- fly of war, were contemplated by the ad- ninisiraion few weeks ago; but all such ideas are now abandoned. and Congress will be divided upon this subject into two sections, not distributed precisely according i to party lines, one side desiring liberal peace appropriations for the Navy and for Notifications, and the other advocating rigorous and jealous eurtallment of all such expenditures.

 4. The Patronage bill. This has pass e; d tic ;;lliis Senate, sseaa. and is nam n the House. waing 10 be committed. The tendency of this bill is to diminish the power exeHed by the Executive through the means of ap- pointments to offices of profit under the Government of the United States. It will draw into discussion all the measures and principles of the present Administration.

 5. The Post Office bill, already reported in tie House, which provided for a com plete reorganization of the Post Office i Department, and is a measure of great public impoftance

 l 6. MT. Clay's bill for distributing the pro- eee1s of the pubic lands ratably among the States, which has heretofore passed both Hoases, and been vetoed by the President, and is now once again under consideration ii ii senate.

 T. The Ohio and Michigan Boundary, which Is subject upon which the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well us inc Territory ef Michigan. are extremely sensitive. and upon which there will be pro- longed and very earnest debate.

 s. and 9. The admission of Michigan and Arkansas into the Union. How much question these two subjects will occasion, I know not. They are, it Is evident, things of great consequence to the whole country. if both enter the Union together, they will maintain, as it is, the equal balance of the slaYeholding and non-slayeho.diag States in the Senate.

 10. Various plans are in contemplation for extending the Pension system, especial I Iy one 10 embrace within it the widows of officers of the Revolutionary Army, and an- other to give pensions 10 soldiers in the West who served in the Indian wars consequent on the Revolution.

 II. The Custem-House Regulation bil This subject Is now in tho hands of the i Committee on Commerce Of the House. They contemplate a thorough revision of ihe whole system of compensation 10 the officers of the customs, providing fixed sal aries in the place of fees and perquses. ] l2. The Judiciary bill, which has pass l ed the Senate now fer the second tine, but has nol been acted upon in the House.

 l3. Claims for French Spoliations prior to 1900. Between two and three hundred memorials on this subject have been refer- Ired in the House to the Committee Of i Foreign Affairs, who have the subject under consideration. What the issue will be l cannot say.

 II. and l5. The Land Office and Patent i Office. These branches of the public ser vice require to be revised and extended. and will receive more or less attention from the present Congress, with a view to im- provements in their organization. I Bm enough. might augment this list by the specification of many other things of local orltemporary interest, or of minor inn portance, which are in the hands of com ] mlttces, or Tn the course of discussion, in one or the other branch of Congress. But ] l think you will be satisfied that, in what j have now suggested to you, there IS ample matter fur session of six or seven months, which will roll away, doubt, not leaving many things undone and many overdone And if 10 the subjects already mentioned. public or private, national or local, you add the ever-present question of the Presiden- ] cy. colorino all the proceedings of Congress