HOUSE MESSAGES CONSIDERED.
The bills H. R. 119, [page 121,] H. R. 1, [described on page 175 of the BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS,] and H. R. 86, to amendsecs.8 and 11 of the justices' act of June 9, 1852, were severally passed the first reading.
The House resolution authorizing an ex-change of State documents with the Governor of Wisconsin, was laid on the table for the present, under the apprehension of some mistake in the wording of the resolution.
The House resolution making the Standing Swamp Land Committees of the two Houses a Committee of Conference to determine the best plan to be adopted for a full inquiry into the alledged frauds concerning swamp lands, &c., was concurred in by consent.
