CONGRESS
On Tuesday 24th, in the Senate, Senator Sumner (Mass.) introduced a bill to secure wages to seamen in case of wreck. Senator Brown (Miss.), a bill to provide for the public printing. Senator Rice (Minnesota) moved that a bill be framed for the organization of the Territory of Dacotah, which was laid over. Senator King’s (N. Y.) resolution relative to paying for the public printing was adopted. Senator Iverson (Ga.) offered a joint resolution relative to the pay of retired and decrepit officers of the Navy, which was adopted. The President sent in the information called for relative to the Perugia affair. Senator Douglas’s (Ill.) resolution was then taken up, and Senators Toombs (Ga.), Foster (Conn.), Mallory (Fa.), and Benjamin (La.) spoke on it, when the resolution was postponed ; an Executive session was had, and the Senate adjourned.—In the House, a personal matter was brought tip and discussed, relative to the Douglas Democracy of Illinois, by Messrs. Welernand (Ill.), Farnsworth (In.), and Logan when Mr. Corwin (Ohio) resumed his remarks commenced yesterday, and speaking four hours, the House adjourned without a vote for Speaker.
Harper’s Weekly, February 4, 1860