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the District Court of Alabama, which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 The Senate conctifi5si +; i thc :h!.c resolution of the House of Representatives concerning the election of Chaplains. and

 The Senate adjourned to Monday.

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

 The House took up the resolution hereto- fore offered by Mir. BocKnE, for the appoint ment of certain officers of the House; when OvERTEN CARR, was appointed Doorkeeper; and .Ioi;s " ausrEn elected Assistant Doorkeeper

 On motion of Mr. BEARBSLY the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union on the Pre- sident's Message, MT. ]. c. ADAMS ill the Chair; When the several parts thereof were referred to the proper committees.

 The following resolution, offered yester- day by Mir. J. e. ADAMS, was taken up and agreed to;

 Resotped, That the Secretary of War be directed to report to the House statement of the names of all the pensioners for servi- ces during the Revolutionary War, pension ed under the act of Congress, of 10th March, 1918, whose names were struck off the list by virtue of the act of 1st May, 1920, speci- flying those restored to pensions by the act of 1st March, 1923, or since again pensoned under m act of 10th May, 1928, the act of June, 1S32, or any other act of Congress, subsequent to that of lst of May, 1920.

 On motion of Mr. CAMBRELENG, the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Trea- sury and the Estimates of the Treasury, were referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

 The House then adjourned till tomorrow.

 IN SENATE.

 MONDAY, DECEMBER 2l, 1885.

 JOHN M. NILES, Senator from Con- nectieut appointed to fill tbe place of the late NATHAN SMITH, appeared and took his seat,

 Mr. ToMLINsON presented the credcn- tials of JOHN M. NILES, appointed by the Executive of Connecticut to fill the vacancy occasoned by the death ofthe Hon. NATHAN SMITH.

 Mr. NILES was then sworn.

 A Message was received from the Pres- dent Of tic United States, submitting to the consideration ofCongress bequest made in London for an Institution in this country which, on motion of MT. WEBSTER, was laid on the table.

 Various petitions were presented by Mr. MekEAN, Mir. BUCHANAN, Mir. SWIFT MT. SHEPLEY, MT. EWING, Mir. NAU- DAfN, MT. WEBSTER, Mir. BLACK, Mir. TETON, Mr. LEIGH, IMPORTER, and appropriately referred.

 MT. WEBSTER offered the following res- olutlon, and moved its consideration at this time, which was agreed to:

 Resoiped, That the Committee on finance be instructed to inquire what measures should be adopted by Congress inconseqaence of the destruction of merchandise and other proper ty by the late fire in New York.

 The resolution was adopted.

 MT. PORTER presented various resolu- tions of the Legislature of the State of Louis jana, on the subject of grants of lands, and commercial Instructions, which were refer red to the appropriate committees.

 Mir. EWING, pursuant to notice, rose to ask leave introduce a bill to define and set tle the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio.

 Leave being granted, Mr. EwIse intro- duced the bill, which was read and ordered to second reading.

 Mir. EWING moved the second reading of the bill, which was objected to by Mir. MOR- RIS.

 Mir MORRIS then offered the following resolution:

 Resoiued by Me Senate and House of Representatives. of the United States m Con- gress assembled, That the assent of the Congress of the United States is hereby fully declared and given to the latter clause of the sixth section of the seventh article of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, which is in the following words to wit: ''Ihe north ern boundary of this State shall be establish ed by and extend to a direct line running from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to the most northerly Cape of the Miami Bay after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid thence northeast to tbe Territorial Line, and by said Territorial Line to the Pennsylvania Line D

 Aud t IS .f,,qher resoiced, That any Sta&e or States that may be formed of the Ierrto- " of the United States, lying east of the Mis- sissippi river, which Congress may hereafter deem proper to admit into the Union, shall be bounded on the south by the States of H. linois, Indiana, and Ohio, us the law may re- qure.

 Mir LINN, pursuant to notice, asked and obtained leave to introduce Q bill for the re- moval of Instructions in the river Nj issouri which was read twice, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

 On motion of Mir. LINN, the bill introduc- ed by him last week to fix the boundary of Missouri, was read second time and refer red.

 Mir. RUGGLES offered the following re- solution, which lies over for consideration:

 Resoired, That the Committee on Com merce be instructed to inquire into the ex- pediency of making appropriations to con struct harbors it the mouths of the St Joseph's, Kalamasoo, and Gallien rivers ef Lake Michigan, and for removing the bar at