6' ' ' sesslou. miss OF,TRBTERDAY'B PEChtEZDINGS . - Housir.--Tbc reading of the message being con cluded, Mr. Washburne (1.11.) lose and said: move that the message be laid on thelable ands printed. I suppose that on that Motion diacus- Sion is in order. The Speaker—A motion to lay on the table is undebateable. Mr. Washburne—l withdraw that part of the motion. I desire • to call the attention of the Rouse and of the country to tcportion of the Pre sident's Message on pages 11 and 12, in reference to the various plans proposed for the payment of the public debt. I consider the proposition re commended by the President as plain, undisguised repudiation, and for one, I wish to take the earliest opportunity to eater my emphatic pro test against it, anti to denounce It as s disgrace to the country and to the Chief Magistrate who has sent such a message.. Mr. Broomall (Pa.) asked Mr. Wathburne to yield to him to offer a resolution. Mr. Washbnrne yielded for that purpose. Mr. Wood,- made the point of order that the gentremart - fromAli rnTiso --(Mr."-Watibtirne)-had been using unparliamentary language. The 8 peaker asked Mr. _Wood what language he alluded to. Mr. Wood specified the _ltinguagewhere Mr. Waslibtrine spoke' of the mbssage as a disgrace to the country and the President. The Speaker ruled that this being a country of free Speech, the persons elected to represent the ~ people have the right to eritielse their public officers; provided it be in language not Inde 0, corpus or personally offensive, a right exercised in the President's message in reference to Con grew. Mr. Broomall asked leave tohave his resolution read, but yielded at the request of Mr. Sehenck, who said he desired to have read s portion of the President's message-on pages 11 and 12. the Th m e esi Cle a r ge: read the following paragraph from "Our national credit should be sacredly ob- served; but, in making provision for our credi tors we should riot forget what is due to-the masses of the people. 7t may be assumed that the holdersof our securities have already received upon their bonds a larger amount than their original investment, measured by a gold stan ditid.lllibifthiEstatetnent • of - facts it" would seem but just and equitable that the six per cent. intereatinow paid by the Government should be applied to the reduction of the :prin cipal in semi-annual instalinenti, which in six teen years and eight months would liqui date the entire national debt. Big percent. in gold would, at present rates, be equal to nine percent. in currency, and equivalent to the payment,of the debt lane and a half times in a fraction less than seventeen years. Thiß lu„con nection with all the other advantages derived from their investment, mould afford to the public creditors a fair and liberal compensation for the nee of their capital, and with this they should be satisfied. The lees* of the past admonish the lender that it is not Well to be over-anxious in exacting from the borrower rigid compliance with the letter of the bond.” Mr. Broomall said he could not yield further until his own resolution be read. He asked to have it read as a part of his re marks. Mr. Randall objected. yr.. Broomall insisted that he had a right to hayeit read as a part of his remarks. The Speaker , stated that objection having been made, it could not be read by the clerk, but that !di. Broomall could read it himself as a part of his remarks. Mr. Broomall took his position at thecierk's desk to read.his resolution. Mr. 'Randall made a point of order that his col league must speak from his own desk. The Speaker overruled the point, and Mr. Broomall read his resolution, as follows: Whereas, The President of the United States in nn his annul message to the Fortieth Congress, at its second session, says: [here follows the ex tract which had been read at the request of Mr. Schenck," and whereas, such a sentiment, if per mitted to go to the world without immediatoc protest, might be understood to be the Sentiment of 'the people of the United States, and of their Representatives in Congress. Therefore, Resolved, That all forms and degrees of repu diation of national indebtedness are odious to the American people, and that, under no eireumstan ceq, will their Representatives consent to offer the public creditor, AA full compensation— a less amount of money than that which the Govern-.. meat contracted to pay him. Mr. Spalding, in his seat, remarked that was all right. Mr. Schenck asked to be permitted to make a remark. Mr. Waahburne yielded for that purpose. . . Mr. Schenck said: I rise for a purpose on which these gentlemen will entirely concur with me. I have had that part of the message read with a view to state,. not because of any per sonal weight that may be given to what I may say by my position here as a Representative on the floor, but because it may be possible that having been honored by a place in this House as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, I ought to express my opinion decidedly on the sub ject, that I must look upon that part of the mes sage as the most gross, shameless, and infamous proposition to repudiate the debt of the country that I have over yet known to be put forward from any quarter, except it may possibly be in the columns of the paper of Brick Pomeroy, who, I believe, has spread before the public in full this morning,thie message, in advance of the other papers I laughter I showing possibly, a kin dred feeling on this point. There is another part of the message to which I wish to attract attention before any vote is taken. On the 25th page of it will be found a paragraph reflecting on the action of Congress in terms similar to those used by the Legislature of Oregon. It is only necessary for me to call the attention of the House to the fact that yesterday, when language came from that source, we stig matized it as scurrilous, indecorous and slanderous. I do not know of any license which the President off, thei'United States has to speak thus of public legislation which may not as well be accorded to the Legis lature of Oregon, and I therefore class them to gether in that reprobation which Congress has already passed on one of them. Now, I trust that there will be no nrinting of this message. Let it take its chance in the public prints. I trust it will be simply laid upon the table as not fit to be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union or any other committee of the House. Mr. Farnsworth—Teat is right. Mr. Schenck—l trust, also, that no gentleman will be deterred from voting against referring it to the Catabiltfee of`' the Whole on the state of the Union upon ? the supposition that it is neces sary in order to give jurisdiction to the several committees. of the House that its several parts should be referred to these committees. There is nothing in the message of which the standing committees of the House may not obtain i jurisdiction by the ordinary process of I reference of bills, petitions .and ...;resolutions. There is no necessity, therefore, of referring it to the Committee of the Whole ofi the State of the Union for the papal purpose of its distribution to the standing committees. There is no need of ', its being printed. It will go broadcast to the country, as all Presidents' messages do, for what it is worth. I desire that it may be simply laid on the table, and I hope that my friend from Illi nois, concurringivith me, will permit me to sub stitute that motion for his. • Mr. Washburne (111.)—I fully concur with the gentleman from Ohio as to there being no neces sity for referring the message to the Committee of the Whole of Ae state of the Union, but It is , necessary that the message be printed, in order to go among the official documents of the country. Mr. Schenck—lt will go upon the journal. Mr. Washburne—l will modify my motion so as to lay the message on the table, and print the usual number 01 copies. Mr. Blaine—No extras? Mr. Washburne—No extra copies. i Mr. Schenck—The mere reading of it takes it to the journal. The Speaker—lt does. ~., Mr. Schenck—And it will be printed in the ~„..,,, journal. k` The Speaker—lt does not, however, take it ' ' ' into the documents which go into the public 11- braries.- 1 / 4 -t . Mr. Maynard—lt goes into the Globe. • Mr. Washburne—l modify my motion so as • -,' to lay - the message on the table and have It f ,,,'; ' r printed. . if: Mr. Schofield—Would not the gentleman be Vi • satisfied- by having it sent to the "butter , c • , , shops?" I ~ , i ' mr Rigby—.l cannot agree with the gentleman 1 . ' fron;Oldo. I think that whatever comes from the president of the United States should be done , ' .• With an has been done heretofore. Let it be printed—let It go to the natic n,'atal let the peo ' ple n read it. Ido not think it our province to supprese anything. I agree with the gentlemen . --- ftywhat they sayalma - the - character at the mos- sage.' I have no hesitation on this point; but it seems to me that we are making 'too much of one who' IS so effectually dead: The hot election settled that question: Let the message go to the Pomle, and let them see what we have had to contend against for the.last three years. ' It wilt _ fujly confirm all that Congress said of him. ' The question being on the motion to lay on the table and print, • • I Mr. Ross. suggested an amendment to print 100,000 copies extra. • The Speaker decided the . amendment not in . Mr. Brooks rose to a point of order, remarking that that:was' the only way which he had to pay that be would bay something; if 'he could do. so In order, in reply to the remarks of 'gentlemen on the other side. The Speaker stated that that was not a point of order. , • • • The message Was laid on the table and ordered to be'printed—yeas 128, nays 88. • • • • The resolution indicated by Mr. Robinson yes terday, calling on the Presidentfor farther information and • correspondence ' refer ence to Fenian prisoners in Ireland, was offered. and adopted. The Senate: billremoving the' disabilitied of - FraudXlifeses,eldefjustice south- Caro lima, was taken np and passed. ...The_bill.for an _election in _Virginia _was, again taken - tip; am:lM. Bingham made an argument against the provosition to postpone the election 'day till May, and in favor of the time specified in the Mil, the 20th of January. He said that three of the States_which had consented to the Font.- teenth article of amendment, Ohio, New Jersey and Oregon. had withdrawn that consent,leiVing only twenty-sevenitates consenting to it,•which was not three-fonrths of thirty 7 :seVen, and leavin, the' question open ' to be challenged.' Se avowe d himself ready to vote for a law making it a felony for any Legislature to try, to 'pais an act de claring that any amendment to the COnstitution was repealed, Having referred incidentally to the portion of the Presicte.nt's message already called in question, Mr. Eldridge asked him if he was not sathdied that the construction given to it was' an unfair construction,. -He actuated that• the language Was somewhat - vague, but he • understood it to - Irefiti - a:Mtommendation to pay off the six per cent. Indebtedness and then apply that interest to the extinguishment of the debt itself. [Laugh ter:on the Republican side.'i He thought that that was what the President intended, and what was a fair const r ucti on billanguage. Mr. Binghath did not see that the gentleman from Wisconsin helped the matter at all. Mr. Boyer (Pa.) reniarked that notwithstand ing the Involved nature of the language used by. the President, be believed that which he alluded to was not the six per cent. interest on 'the Gov ernment bonds, but that premium which is paid to the national banks. Mr. Farnsworth inquired how the President could mean that when he proposed to pay off the entire debt in that way in sixteen years. At last the discussion was closed, and the ques tion wan taken on Washburne's amendment, fix ing the fourtlrThursday in May for the election. The amendment was agreed to, 79 to 60, and the time for the meeting of the Legislature was also fixed, on the motion of Mr. Washbnrne, for the first Tuesday in September. The bill as thus amended was passed without division. Mr. Washbnrne (Ill.) resigned his position us Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. The House, then, at a quarter before 4 o'clock, adjourned. The Ohio Steamboat Disaster. From the Lou Levine CourierJolunal, of Monday, Decem. A touching appeal was made by Miss Jones to a gentleman on board. As, the wood-work was becoming too heated to bear, and the flames wore forcing their way gradually into the cabin, she went to him, saying, "Oh! Mr.yon have —, talked to me this evening, yon have danced with me, you know who I am and where I come from, save me! Oh, save me!. Oh, save me!" He told her he had a wife to save, and could not -help her. Poor girl, she is beyond earthly help now. One gentleman and wife escaped in rather a romantic manner. Fastening life-preservers to both of their persons, he tied her right arm to his left,_then took a shutter, over which they placed both arms. "Now! one—two—three--jump !" he cried, when both jumped, and after a little mathenvering they arrived safely on shore, minus, however, iseveral articles of apparel needed to make them presentable. A lady on board the States relates that as she and her husband were moving toward the shore, in the water, she saw one of the life-boats filled with people who had escaped. Dut all et once the America begins backing toward shore, and mercilessly the rude rudder strikes the boat, crushing and upsetting it. None of those pas sengers were saved. After escaping one danger, only to meet death in another form. From the shore could be seen women with nothing but their robes de nuit to protect them, running about in the flames, screaming for help —mothers with their children in their arms, most of them babies, rushing about frantically. One mother, holding her baby in her arms, ran to the guards, but the water seemed to her only a chilly grave; then she jumped in the cabin again, then to the guards. The last that was seen of her she was standing up with her baby hugged closer to her, in her awful death, burning up. The scene at Warsaw beggars description. Re latives hunting for each other, the wounded screaming with pain; people, who at home were blessed with wealth, bemoaning their sad plight. The ladles generally had perforce to , to to bed while their linen was being dried. `-Clothing was brought by the open-handed and warm-hearted citizens of Warsaw, and everything was done to render them as comfortable as possible Under the circumstances. The, bridal parties on board lost everything but their sleeping apparel. Calicoes took the place of elegant vestments. Red worsted hoods or bonnets, or anything that would cover their feet and nakedness. Clothing was gone, elegant trousseaux, which had cost so much time and trouble in getting to ether , were lapped up in the hungry flames. Money was gone, and pen niless, neatly naked, three of the newly-married couples changed their warm beds for the icy water in the river, and half dead with fright, and two-thirds frozen, they only reached the friendly shore to be greeted by a piercing cold wind. Bat at last they were saved, and they fell into the hands of the good Samaritans. One couple, Jam married, have fulfilled their holy vow to love each other until death should them part: but death took them both—both together—frozen, drowned, dead, in their beautiful youth, with the kiss of their pure love frozen on their lips. A gentleman with his sister, a lovely and ac complished young lady, were passengers on the United States. At the first shoelethe gentleman was thrown from his bed clear on the floor. Has tily pulling on his pantaloons, he rushed to, the state-room of lie f sister,burst open the door,and, seizing her in his arms, carried her down on the main deck, where, procuring a door shatter, he threw it overboard and leaped after it, with hl t sister in his arms. Ho placed her securely on tha shutter, and was swimming behind, pushing it, with his precious load, toward the shore, when, to his horror, a big, burly and able-bodied mau swam up, pushed his sister off the board, and climbed upon it himself. The young girl sank with a scream, and if she came to the surface it waa so dark and the con fusion so great that he could not find her. Iliad• dened at the dastardly act, he made after the author, and seizing him by the throat a struggle to the death ensued. They . rose and sunk together, still struggling, and when last seen were grappling with each other. Whether either was saved or both went down together is not known. The aister sank beneath the waves and was lost, but she was terribly ayenged by her brother. Two_ ladles,_ whose. names. are unreported, placed on board the - States by Mr. Townsend Whelan, a banker of Philadelphia, were as suredly lost. They took passage for Now Orleans. Mr. Whelan came down yesterday in search of them, but could obtain no clue to their fate. Mr. keorge Zeigler, of Nashville, and wife, who escaped so miraculously, were married at Fremont, Ohio, on Sunday night preceding the disaster. At the ulace,near Florence,where the boats col lided, the river takes a bond, though there is over twenty feet of water, which allowed them plenty of room. Frank and J. N. Price, brothers, of this city, made their escape together, and had a moat thrilling adventure. When they left the boat it was almost entirely wrapped in liames,and neirly all who could had fled the dicks and were strug gling to evade the sheets of flame that overspread the water. By lucky chance the-brothers-reirehed on,e of The fenders aft the States, and slid down into the water, and alter much difficulty got ashore. __To - their coolness and courage much of the hfc-saving Is due, and their calm survey of the diro situation in great part insured the trans tension of intelligent accouuts.ol the disaster. THE Slate Department is informally advised that Chile has accepted the proposal for a Con vention at Washington to settle the difficulties between Spain and the South American republict). THE, DAILY MALICIOUS MISCHIEF.—The Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals offers-a reward of one hundred dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the persons who, a short time since, cut the tongue out of a horse,the mop . erty of Mr. Richelderfer, which was at livery at the stables of the - Continental Club. The owner has a.leo_offered a reward of fifty dollars. REAL ESTATE SALE.—James A. Freeman, auc tioneer, sold yesterday at noon, at the Exchange, the following : Oilcloth manufactory, with the machinery and outbuildings, Intersected by Second, Venango and Clinton streets and Erie av enue, Twenty-BRb Ward; lot containing 5 acres, being 494 feet on Second street.... $35,500 Three-story brick store and dwelling, No. 228 Pine street; lot 15 by SO feet. 3,500 Two-story brick dwelling, No. 1235 Locust street, with three-etory brick house in the rear, on Canby street ,•lot 22 by 110 feet... 6,800 Three-story brick dwelling, No. 1024 Wal- - 1 lace street; lot 68 by 79 feet f - 6OOO Three-story brick house, No. 1029 Lemon ' street; lot 18 by 50 feet Three-story brick dwelling, No. 614 South Ninth street; lot 2u by 114 feet.. _ ... 6,025 Store and dwelling, No. 1103 North Front st., with frame back building; lot 16j by 100 feet... .............. ........ ......... 2,500 Two-story stone dwelling, corner of Juniper and Locke st., Manayunk ; lot 50 by 154 ft. 2,700 Two-story brick stable, Rugan street. above Callowhill, Fourteenth Ward; Jot 60 by 58 feet. ...... .... 3,350 Frame house, on the Rolmesburgl road, Twenty-third Ward ;.lot containing 48 perche5.... ........ . ... 1,000 Store and dweling, No. 338 South Third et., above Pine; lot 14X by 40 ft ..... . 4,050 Three-story brick dwelling, No. 22 . 24 Lom bard street, with back buildings; lot 16 by 78 feet..... ..... 3,100 Three-story brick dwelling, cor. of * *Twen•ty third and Lombard eta, with back build ings; lot 20 by 78 ft. ....... ... 4,150 Building lot, Comae, et.., south of Mont gomery avenue, 16 by 46 ft ... . ......... 300 Two-story brick cottage, No. 1611 Federal st. ; lot 16 by 77 ft ..... ....* . • ....... ... 2,050 Two-story brick house, No. 937 Cantrell et., First Ward ; lot 14 by 57 ft; subject to $33 per annum........ .... .. ........... 5,950 Store and dwelling, northwest corner of Seventh and Green streets; lot 16X by 70 feet . ......... .......... 5,950 SALE OF RF.AL ESTATE AND STOCKS.-MCSSrB. Thomas & Sons sold, at the Exchange, on Tues day noon, the following stocks and real estate: Ground rent, $3O a year .......... .......... $5BO 00 (Ironed rent, $27 a year.. ............... 430 00 Three-story brick dwelling, No. 826 North Twentieth street,l6 feet front,7o feet deep, 5,050 00 Valuable wharfand large let, river Schuyl kill and Mill ...... . 6,250 00 odern four-story'brick residence, No. 531 York avenue, 31 fOt front, 142 feet deep.. 15,000 00 Three-story brick residence, No. 623 North Tenth street, 18% feet front... 7,200 00 Two-story frame dwelling. No. 526 Shlppen 5treet........ ........ ................ ..... 2,600 00 Lot, Morris street, east of eso op $4,100 U. S. five-twenties 1864, $107;. , 1...... 4,412 62 $2.500 Philadelphia City 6s, old, 9836....... 2,456 25 h elm - Mercantile Library, $l7 50.... ....... 22 60 23 she. Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank. ............... 2,829 00 12 sits. Commercial Bank, $5B 25 ..... 699 00 32 As. Spling Garden rneurance Co., $97... 2,104 00 20 she. Fourth National Bank, sloo3