Legislative

In the Sen ate, Feb. 24, Mr. Dentón ofi'ered a resol ut ion of insiruction to the judiciary committee to bring in a, bilí to sonmend ihe revied statuies thaf staysof execution on ju.dgments befóte, jualioes ofthepeace be a foljpvfs: Cor sums of $25 and undei three months ; all sums over $26 and un der $50, tú rnonths ; sums over $50 and under $75, six raonlhs; sums over 75 ajid under Sl,00y one. year; and on t sums.over S100,fifieen mouths; the time,, in each case, to be reponed fyom the coKomencwnftni of the suft. Mr. Lathroi moved to strike out the wordg " froru q commencement of the suit," and insert tho yords " frQm the rendition of the judgment." Mr. Dentón moved to nmend the .imendment so a.s tJ add two months to the rtay on each sum named above. Afier soma debate betweon Messrs. Dentón nn,d EWredge, The question being on tho amendment to theamendment,it was lost - -}'ens 5 nays 13. Mr. Alien tlicn moved ta gmend. the amendment so as to provide that forall sums under $50 the $tay sha)l be foi six months. Lost. The amendment of Mr. Lathropto insert the W-ords 'from the rendition of judg ment,' in lieu of the worda 'frem commencement of the suit,' was then ngteed to and the resolution passed. On the Housk, Feb. 25., amendments to the Constitution were discussed in Committee of the whole. Qn motion of tyr. Adamt qoble. Seuatomal distriets were adopted. M,r. Jrhain offered a substituie for the resolution he had previousiy ollered, that no actof Incorporaron shall be pass.ee! by the legislatnre except for purposes strictly municipnl, which was adopted. The committee rose and rapoited back to the Housp, an,d amendments concuTec in.Mr. H. VV. Taylar su,bm,iv.ed hia substitute which wa3 negatived, yeas 23, nays 34. Mr'. H. VV. Taylor ofiered an amendment providing ar biennia! insiead of annual ses-u'ons which was carried. Mr. Emunds oíTcred nn nmendment lijnt the Supervisors of each county shall district thcir county into single districts, which was lost. Mr. Noble moved a reconsideraron of t!ic vote, whioli vas carried. lio said i appeared to him inore proper for the su-, pervisors to district their own counties than the legislatura hut Hiere was a provisión thnt dishiots might be made without refercnce to county unes, Thnt he ihought would result in evil, though a more cqual dutributiou as farns etiumeratíon was concerned, and though fractions miglit be unrcpresented, yet ihought the evil would, be less tlum brenkin.g up of cou jty Hnes. Mr. C. H. Taylor moved to nmrnd so as to give to each org.inizol county at least one membr. Lost, veas 23t nays 36. Mr. Dritarn moved to amend by adding, the territQry nc,w em'jraeed in the counties oPHoughton, MarqattCjSchoolcrafl an,d Ontonagon sha!l be oniitled to at leost one represeivatiye. Lost. The quesiiun recurring on Mr. Edmund's proposition, Mr. Turner said he thought il would he beter to leavp the districting to the legisiV'ture ínstead of the supervisors. - Thcy might fail lo do it in a legal and proper manner, which -onld give riso to conicsts for seats in the legishiture, it wovild havp a grent tendeney to bring n great deal of trouble and political Rgitation into each county. The representativos would come here whh a fuil viev of the matter. It would take less time to do tho business here than the re, andif, would seem to have a moro binding effect. Toleave it to the supervisors woujd bc making it Hable to contingencies. l would save time and difficulty by having the districts fixed by thp legilature, Mr. Edmnds believed that the action of the Supervisors woq]d be more accrpiablo U tliepcoplc than the action of the legislaturc; each township would bc repreented at the boayd which would not be the case in the Legislature. Mr. Upton thought it would be likely to open a door for difiiculties and give rise to many qestiQns o.f contested seats. M. r. Qoodwin vaid the proposition Qf the committee was based on population, it had no regard to couuty lines, it left the State a broad field for districting, this would be contro,ílcd by county lines and then by township linfs, this would break up the symmelry as popular representation. The object was to get a representation dependent on population. ir. Hollister said peoplc were usually attached to their own counties the interests of two counties might be diíFerent, with a district composed of pavs of two countips, there would be strife to get the membor in theirowncqunty, in is practical resuhs i t would be found ohjectionable. Mr, H. was in favor of preserving county linesand in favor of having the districtingdonp by the board of Supervisors. After some furthor debate, the nmend ment was qdopted yeas 33, nays 22,In Senate, Feb. 26, the Sonate again took up the bilí to regúlate the construction of mili dams and rn 11 races, (Mr. Coe having been sent for) ond the bill was furtherdiscussed by Mr. Balch in its, favor% The-question was then taken and the bill was lost by a tie voie - yeas 10, nays 10, Mr. Foaton then moyedi a recons.id.eration of the vote, and the questioji being taken, it was lost, yeas 10, nays 10. Mr. ajch, on leavc, roported a joint resolutiooi revive to the reyisio.n of the judiciary lavvs of 1846, which was twice rend and ordered to be printed. [The rosolution suspends tlie judiciary system until 1848 and raises a commission to be selected by tlie Senata and House of Representativos in joint convention to revise the judiciary system.] Mr. Cook, on leavp, introdu,ced al bill to exemp.1 a, quanüy of land, a3 the hornettend, frofn forced sale in certain cases. - Rend tw,ice and ordered to be printed. Th nmendinens to the charter of the Michigan Insurance Unnk coming up Mr. Eldredge oflered an nmendment that tho bank be not allowed to pay out any notes of otlier banks except those of New York and New Englund. Mr. Dentón wa,s opposod to allowing them to pay out any notes except tbeir o,wn. it ii by pnying out other notes that bank get up an unwhoJesome c'rculation and enables ihem to keep out a circulation larger thnn is sae to the bank. If the s'.ate. stock system isto.be, the great panacea for all the avila o banking, Senators would do well to recollect thii in every bmk thus se-cure.il, which failed, a depreciation of the notes followed. The plan he wished adopted, would keep specie in the vaults and thus prevent SUSpnSÍO?. Mr. Inthrop said that the great f&uH had been that banks had been lied up so tiglu that the courts would not enforce the provisión, lt is notorious that the present charter of thp Insurance Bank prohibits the pnying out of notes of other banks vet the bank dnily did so; tr;d thus pnblic conveniencö over-rode the law. Mr. Dentón. Fraud aadcu.pid.ity pvor rode the law. The quesiion was taken on Mi D.enton's suustrtule and lost, }eas7, nays 14. Mr. Lnthrop then moved to amend the motion so ns allow the paying out of notes of banks in this slate similarly securod. Mr. Dentón opposed the motion. He looked upon it as the unitfng of nlj the insolvent banks of New York, New Englnfid. and Micliigan. N.o s-lyent bank wou)dask such an nmendment. Mr. McReynolds favored ihe amoudif-nt. He looked upon these things as restrictions. We were not legislaüng to créale a bank charter, but wero imposing reitrictions upon them. Mr'. 3tish. 1 go against u bank charters. Mr. McReynolds. I do nat. On thnt subject I axa soft. Mf. McR. tlien went into an argument in favor of thp amendment, DentQn sñid thqt last winter he endeavored to mako this bank give state stock securities, and he wasstill in favor of it, but at the same time he was not as wiliing ia throw ofl' nl! other guards and let them go f ree, as he might be, were he in bis politics a soft, as Mr. M.cR. a.v(nws himself to be. Four-ñfths of the losses in this staie were caused by other banks taking the notes of the insolvent ones, ns was the case with the River Kaisin and the Oakland Oounly Lanks, a!)Lj gvjn them a curreney wliicli the noie liolJers wouJJ not give ihem had nat boen fur the fact tlmt thoy wero aided in getiing out a circulation by other banks. The question was further debatod by Messrs. Dentón, Eldredgs and Bnlch. Thequeslian was then taken on tho amendment to tho amctidment, to allow the bank to receive and pay out the notes of other banks secured in like manner, and wa-i carried, yeas 13, nays 7. The amendment as nmen,ded was agrecd to, yeas 12, nays 8. Mr. Dentón ofiered nn nmondment rcquiring the b,ank to give state stock securities for the issuosof any bank whose notes they use for circulatton. In support of this, Mr, Dentón said that the bank could procure the notes of o;her Uanks for one per cent and use them instead oftheirown nates nnd thus evade and chent the law. They would issue no notes of thcir own, but would put in circulatjqn, lhse qf qtherstates and thus bring about the state of things Senators so deeply deprécate, that of filling up thechannölsof circuiation with notes óver which we have no control. The questian wa.s thpn taken and carried - yeas 12, nays 8. Amondments to the charter of the Farmers' and MpchanicV Dank were discussed. Mr. dentón moved tq nm,end the bill by striking ouï a portion, the eiTect of which, if carried, woujd be o make the directors Hable individual] for all the issu.es, inste.id of a limited liability. Carried. Mr. Fenton ofTered nn amendment providing that if the bank refuse for ten days lo redeen its note'k, (pravid,ed itreíuses to secure the bilí holders by.'-tate stock,) it shal! forfeit ita charter. Mr. Kibboe moved the indefinite posV ponemcnt of the bilí. Losl - 6 to 1,4. Mr. Balc.h moved toornend the nrnendment sa as to npakje bpüs rcdeemable &t both the.barji in Detroit a:id the braochAgreed to. Tlie nmendment of Mr. feoion, ns nmended, was agrepd, k. Mr. Dentón oêfered nn omendment ihnt a.fier ihe 5ih of November, 1848, the bank sholl not pu,t iflcirculation any notes unless registered nnd eouutersignod by the trexisurer. Agreed to. Mr. Dentón iheji ojTexed an nraond-. ment prohibiling thesaid Corporation iVom putting in circul.it,ion iba noJes ofany ojhec icoif ojation whntever. L' st - yens S, nays 12. On mution of Mr. Schwarz, the Senate took up the bill repealing the luw amendatory lo the koveral acts in rclation to licenses nnd lo rcpeal sections 27 to 29 inclusive, of chap. 41 of the rovised statutes. Tlie queaítion being on ordering the bilí to a third reading wm carried, veas 12 nays 7. The question hc'ng o he paaitge of the bill it was carrirdt eas 12-, n;iys Ö. In the House, Feb. 26, the day was mostly consunied in discussing omendtnentd t the constitiion-rrthe pay of members, bienninl sesiions, &c. The members found themselves at the end of lbo debate just where the.y begun. Wo have last sight of the War resolutions of late, altiiough in the forepart of tlie sssion they figured in every days proceedings. Tho following nojicc vf their end and of th&ir originatorr we find x the correspondence of the Oakland G.-izette : %1.Thgt War rcsoluiions," which have bsen pending over since ho seQond. da,y of the.i05sior., and cost the poople over fuur thousand dollars, hnve at last been disposed of by tho Se.na.te - swallovying the' antislavery nmendnipnts, (added in the House,) after refu,ng them some half dozen times. I presume the valiant author. Col. McReynoids. is now partioJIv reiicved, after sliowing Polk by the original resolutions how low he was willing to stoop to white-wash hini. As 1 intiniated to vou some time ago, Mc. is. after an appointment from hend-quarters and introduced thoso Iiead resulutions to show Polk that he was a doughface of the Simonoidcr. Thn foliowing is the programme of the eflorts - lst introducing the resolutions, and of mnking windy speeches fiir their passage - 2d giving a ; bird supper" to the members the second week pf the se3sion - 3d by mcans of tho supper spcm-.ing the ignature of the rnembers to a recomtnend al' hims&lf to the President fur a cornmission in the nrmy - 4th, forwnrding the pap1 to head qunrters, nnd 5th, wailing the result in anxious suspense. The fifth act he is now in, which wijl probably last some littlc time.