Another member, to wit, WILLIAM HELMS, from New Jersey, appeared, produced his credentials, was qualified, and took his seat in the House. WEDNESDAY, January 11. _Virginia Yazoo Company._ On a motion made and seconded, “That the agent or agents of the Virginia Yazoo Company, ‘claimants of compensation under the late cession and convention between the State of Georgia and the United States, and the acts lately passed by Congress thereon, as purchasers of land in the Mississippi Territory, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, from the said State of Georgia,’ be heard in person, or by counsel, at the bar of the House, on Monday next:” The question was taken thereupon, and resolved in the affirmative--yeas 61, nays 49. On a motion made and seconded that the House do come to the following resolution: _Resolved_, That the South Carolina Yazoo Company be heard by their agent, on Monday next, at the bar of the House: And the said motion being twice read at the Clerk’s table, a motion was made and seconded to amend the same, by striking out all the words from the word “Resolved,” in the first line, to the end of the motion, and inserting, in lieu thereof, the following words: “That this House will, on Monday next, hear all the agents of the different companies claiming lands south of the State of Tennessee, who may choose to speak at the bar of this House.” And on the question that the House do agree to the said amendment, it passed in the negative. And the main question being taken that the House do agree to the said motion, as originally proposed, it was resolved in the affirmative--yeas 67, nays 46. FRIDAY, February 3. _Georgia Militia Claims._ The House went into Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of John M. Randolph and Randolph McGillis, which is unfavorable to the prayer of the petitioners. The petitioners claim their pay as militiamen, called out in the State of Georgia for the protection of that State against the Indians. They allege, that, being called out under the authority of the Government of the United States, the General Government is bound to compensate them and the other men called out for their services. The Committee of Claims report that the petitioners are to look for compensation to the State of Georgia, who, by the articles of cession recently concluded, had agreed to receive one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in full for all demands for military service. [This debate, though nominally on a private claim, retains a surviving interest from its historic details, its connection with the Georgia cession, its references to the Yazoo speculation, and its dependence upon the question of protection between the Federal Government and a State.]