Mr. _Baldwin_.--I do not see what we are guarding against by striking out the words, unless gentlemen mean to go so far as to introduce a prohibitory clause, and declare that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be restrained from digesting or preparing plans for the improvement of the revenue. If there is any evil in having him attend to this branch of the business, I cannot see how to avoid it. Suppose the officer is a bad man, and there are others like him in this House, (for this must be what the gentlemen are afraid of;) and suppose he has prepared a scheme for peculation, which he hopes to get adopted by making dupes of the honest part; how are you to hinder it from being brought forward? Cannot his friends introduce it as their own, by making and seconding a motion for that purpose? Will you restrain him from having access to the members out of doors? And cannot he infuse his dangerous and specious arguments and information into them as well in the closet, as by a public and official communication? But, Mr. Chairman, can this House, or if it can, will it prevent any of their constituents from bringing before them plans for the relief of grievances or oppressions? Every individual of the community can bring business before us by petition, memorial, or remonstrance, provided it be done in a decent manner. How then do you propose to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury? I think the clause is very well as it stands, and shall therefore be against the amendment. Mr. PAGE'S motion for striking out the clause being put and negatived: The question on Mr. FITZSIMON'S motion to amend the bill, by striking out the word report, and inserting prepare, was taken and carried by a great majority. After which the House adjourned. FRIDAY, June 26. A number of the members attending the interesting conference which to-day took place with the Senate on the impost and tonnage bills, no business was done in this House. _Saturday_, June 27. _Revenue Bill._ Mr. _Boudinot_, from the managers on the part of this House in the conference with the Senate on the subject of the amendments to the Impost Bill, reported that the conference had agreed to pass the bill as amended by the Senate, with some additional amendments, viz: the duty on distilled spirits of Jamaica proof, to be reduced from fifteen cents to ten cents per gallon. The duty on all other spirits, to be reduced from twelve to eight cents per gallon. The duty on beer, ale, porter, or cider, imported in casks, from eight to five cents per gallon. The duty on beer imported in bottles, from twenty-five to twenty cents per gallon. The duty on coal, from three to two cents per bushel. MONDAY, July 13. _Western Lands._ The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Mr. BOUDINOT in the chair. Mr. SCOTT requested that the report of the committee on the Western Territory might be read, which was read accordingly, as follows: