XXXVIMS CLOSE OE YESTERDAY' El PROOKEDENGS 'BRICATE.-31r. Anthony (B. r.) moved the print: 'trig of live thousand copies of the report of tae Committee on the Conduct of the War in reference 20 the late Florida expedition. Adopted. The bill to carry into effect the treaty between the 'United States and Great Britain for the final set tlement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies, was taken la and passed. Mr. Chandler (PYlich.) introduced a bill in addi tion to the several acts concerning the commercial Intercourse between the loyal and insurrectionary states, and to provide for the collection of aban 4doned property, which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to designate places where abandoned property may be sold. In addition to those autho rized by the act, it charges the agents with the lease of abandoned lands for twelve months, and the employment and general welfare of all persons formerly held as slaves within the military lines. The property is to be regarded as abandoned where the owner is absent and engaged in the rebel ser dee. The surplus proceeds, after deducting ex penses, under the regulations of the Secretary, to be paid into the treasury. The prohibitions and provisions of the act of July, 1860, are extended to commercial intercourse whatever within the Military lines. Any portion of a loyal State over run by the rebel raids. or in - immediate danger from them, is 'placed under the restrictions of the , ame act.l The present Mode of distributing fines and for feitures tomformers and collectors is to be changed _bp all award of the.conrt decreeing condemnation. Dlo - property taken on the inland waters shall be subject to maritime prize. It authorizes the ap pointment of agents to purchase the products of the insurrectionary districts at a price not greater than he market value, or three-fourth of the value at New York, the proceeds to be paid Into the Trea sury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized 20 arrange the details of the management of such .roperty. The bill was referred to the Committee cm Commerce. Mr. Morgan (N. Y.) presented the following oint resolution of the Legislature of New York: Rewired, That the Senators and Representatives Congress from this State be, and tney are hereby • quested to make all necessary exertions to secure egislative recognition by Congress of the right of 11 volunteers in the two years' regiments from •is State, who, after a service of over one year ere mustered out and honorably. discharged with eir regiments, or subsequently thereto, from the -ervice ofthe United States, to receive the bounty •f one hundred dollars provided and promised by • icieral order of the War Department of May 4th. 861, and subsequently by act of Congress of July '2, 1861. Kr. Harding (Oregon) from the Committee on • üblic Lands, reported a bill granting to the rail oad and telegraph line from Emporia, via Conn -11 Grove, to a point on the Pacific lirancb road ear Fort Riley, alternate sections of land, for ten ections, on each side of•the road. It also autho 'zes a change in the route, via Lawrence and allarns.a. Valley, to run from Lawrence to Eta . oria. The consideration of the Naval Appropriation 'ill for the year ending June 30th, 1e65, was re timed. An smendment from the NaVal Committee aking an appropriation of fifteen thousand dol ars for a cemetery for the navy and marine orps, near Philadelphia, was adopted. The amendment of Mr. Grimes providing that e Naval Academy shall be returned and'estab -shed at the academy grounds, in Annapolis, on •r before the Academic year in Sep ember, 1565, hich had been adopted in Committee of the " hole, came up for a separate vote. Mr. Anthony moved, as a substitute for the mendment, that the Secretary of the Navy ap , pint a Board of five naval officers he examine and eport upon the most - suitable place for the Naval cademy. After considerable debate, the substi nte was rejected, and the amendment of Mr. rimes was adopted—yeas 35, nays 10. Mr. Powell renewed. his amendment of Toes ay, repealing the fishing bounties. Mr. Harris said he had voted for the amend ,. ent, but on the assurances of the gentleman from hio, Mr. Sherman, that he would propose it as an mendment to the Revenue bill, he should now ote against it. Mr. Powell, on the assurances that had been • ade, withdrew his amendment, as he did not ish to embarrass the friends of the Navy Appro. •nation bill. The bill was then passed. Mr. Hale (N. H.), from the Naval Committee, eported the House bill fixing date of the loss of e brig Bainbridge, and for the relief of the offi ers, seamen and marines of the same. Passed. The joint resolution of thanks to Admiral Porter • passed. Mr. Hale presented the House joint resolution •ncerning officers in the navy, which was passed ter an amendment. The amendment authorizes nly the appointment by the Secretary of ihe Navy f temporary lieutenant. commanders on the same • oting as others of the grade. Mr Hale reported the House bill amending the ct of July 16, 1E62, equalizing the grade of line 'ricers in the Navy. After an amendment, pro- Wing that no officer higher than a Commodore ould be retired; the bill passed. Mr. Wade reported from the committee of con rence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses n the bill enabling the people of Montana to form Territorial Government. The report was dopted. The bill to chaster a Masonic Hall Association • the District of Columbia ts as passed. Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee, re ared a substitute for bill 106. It provides that it • all be uniawfulto make any contract for the pur 1, ase, or sale, or loan or delivery of any gold coin bullion, or of foreign exchange, at any time,sub quently to the making of the contract, or ior pay , ent of any sum fixed or contingent in default of slivery of the said coin, &c. It provides also that none - but bona fide owners • actual possession shall make a‘onti act for the :le of gold, and forbids any hangar or broker, or # er person, to make sale of gold coin, or bullion foreign exchange, or to make, contract for any ch purchase or sale at other than his ordinary lace of business. All contracts violative of the t are void. The penalties for a violation of the act are a fine notmore than ten thousand nor less than one onsand dollars, or imprisonment not less; than e months nor more than one year, or both, at e discretion of the Court. Th e Senate then went into Executive session, and ortly after adjourned. HOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Colfax said the gentleman from Ohio. Mr. endleton, asked on Tuesday where are we 1 He ould answer we are in the Capitol of the United fates, that Republic which still lives in spite of snspiracy and treason, of enemies open and co art, with or without arms in their bands, within d without our lines, and which, thanks to God d to our gallant soldiers in the field, will live as .ng as time shall last At such a time and place, ith the e4emy almost at the gates of our Capital; e gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Long, declares that country is dead and destroyed, and adVocates :cognition to pluck eleven States from our banner, receiN e in.that diplomatic gallery an envoy ex aordmary in the person of Mason or of Beaure d, representing here a government founded on r own soil, and the heights of Arlington to own with hostile batteries menacing our delib ations at this Capitol. The representative of the olumbus District, Mr. Cox, called his course ordinary. He had a parallel and a jastifica on. That same gentleman announced in the •me speech that his Democratic colleagues from hio had met in caucus to disavow the sentiments his colleague, Mr. Long, and farther than that, .at he Mr. Cox, was authorized so to declare. It as as extraordinary that thirteen gentlemen of e same political party should deem it to be their .ty to meet In caucus and authorize one of their tuber to publicly disavow the speech, as for him • offer the resolution. if that could be done for .e interest of a party, why should he (Mr. Col ) be criticised for asking the House to solemnly •pudiate the speech for the interests of the ntr y Mr. :Pendleton remarked he did not know there d been a caucus, and that his colleague, Mr. ox, had no authority to speak in his behalf. Mr. Cox remarked—l desire to say that as to the :netts of Ohio Democrats, although I was not pre •nt, eleven of my colleagues concurred in and .thorized the statement that they did not agree . at the sentiments ettr bided to my colleagae, r. Long, were the sentiments of the Democracy. Mr. Colfax, resuming, repeated he had brought .rward his resolution from an imperative coavic on ol duty and in accordance with his right as a •presentaiive. As the occupant of the Chair he as the servant of the House, but on the floor as a presentative from Indiana, he was the equal of others; no more, no less; and he would-not ye accepted the Speakership If he had to enter e Chit r tongue•tied and forbidden to speak for couLtry and his constituents. If his own other under the stringent oath required for the t of this Congress had made that speech, he . ould have pursned the same coarse toward him, .t that he loved him less, but his country more. In framing his resolution he had conferred with . member of this Rouse. He took the responsi lity alone. The only member to whom he did ate his purpose was the gentleman from New a.mpshire (Mr. /Rollins) a- few minutes only fore he requested him temporarily to occupy. the •air. But he did consult with one life-long end after he had mentioned here his purpose. s friend asked, Do you not know byoffering .la. resolution you will make yourselt a target of tack ?" He replied that he had counted the '' et and become a was willing, of fo att r theack sake of his country, target , e woul d have in eredithe resolai ion if the next mome H nt had dr. yen l into private life. Before he proceeded to analyze the speech of the •ntleman from Ohio be desired to refer to some ing that had been said on the opposite side. The •ntleman from Ohio (Mr. Cox), while pleased to eak highly of his fairness as the Speaker of the• case, said that be had descended from the chair the floor of the House. If so he had an illus. ions example in one 'whose shoe latchets he might .t be worthy to unloose, but who had filled the at the generosity of the House had given to him him of the lion heart and esele eye, defamed by rre whi .. !h- r g, but ht , !ovrd b , all now thif. tc pasted. to toe spirit land. Mr. Clay, during T svnioN: the war of 1812, came down from the 'chair, not once, but frequently. ' Mr. Mallory (Ky.) supposed the gentleman al luded to that period of 1812 when Mr. Clay de scended flora his position to reply to the remarks of Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, but Mr. Clay did not move a resolution of expulsion. K. Colfax said that in Congress, in 1812 and 1813, Mr. Clay cane down from the chair nine times to make speeches at one session, and six times during the next Mr. Mallory asked, did Mr. Clay ever move to censure or expel a member ? Mr. Colfax replied that Mr. Clay's speeches were on the side of his Country, and thatstatesman did not hesitate about the words he used, which were far more severe than any lie ever used here. Mr. Dawes called upon Mr. Mallory to state what language Josiah Quincy used to Justify Mr. Clay's speech. Mr. Mallory did not recollect the precise words, but he recollectec Mr. Quinsy denounced the war as being causeless and against the interests of Mas sachusetts, and one to which his constituents were opposed. Mr. Dawes said Josiah Quincy was one of the most venerated and distinguished statesmen of the land, and he knew Mr. Quincy was opposed to the war of 1812, but as a lover of his country, he had no equal at the time. • Mr. Mallory said the gentleman could not get Kentucky and Massachusetts into collision. Mr. Colfax, resuming, said if any one had re-. marked at the time that traitors should be per mitted to plant their Confederacy on our soil, he believed that Clay, with all his patriotic impetu osity, would have moved to expel the member from the floor. This was no gladiatorial arena, as called by Fernando Wood, as it was when men with weapons sought to suppress disunion in be half of freedom. That time has passed away. They were here as patriots and as representatives to discharge the duties committed to their charge. Mr. Colfax quoted some remarks attributed to Fernando Wood, when the latter said it was not true. Mr. Colfax said he took it from the New York Herald, and he supposed that was good authority. If the gentleman said his Bergen speech was in correctly reported, he would let it pass. His col league (Mr. Voorhees) had declared himself in favor of unlimited freedom of speech. If a man should rise here and advise the assassination of the President, would his colleague have advocated such freedom of Speech: . And yet the speech of the gentleman from Ohio had not only encouraged the assassination of the Republic, but also of the soldiers defending it. His colleague had quoted the inculcators of the Saviour. He (Mr. Colfax) had been taught to bow to them with respect, but he found the Saviour himself prohibited free speech when he prohibited profanity. His col league said something about the Helper book, and which had been dug up from the past. lllr. Rogers asked whether Mr. Giddings was censured, and under the previous question re garded it as a virtual expulsion and resigned. A widely circulated paper had compared Mr. Long o Chatham, and spoke of his resolution which he offered as a disgrace and outrage. He would re tort on no one, but he wanted no nobler epitaph on his tombstone than that he had done his duty to his country according to his conscience. (Great Applause.] He wanted the rules to be enforced, as gentlemen on the other side insisted, who did not like these responses. -He had sat here when the galleries had applauded for slavery, but had nothing but lowering brows and hisses for free dom,• then there was only a rnild r