June 23d, Mr. Davis addressed the Senate at length. Mr. Saulsbury moved to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the words of the Constitution concerning fugitives from service, with the addition: “And Congress shall pass all necessary and proper laws for the rendition of all such persons who shall so as aforesaid escape.” The motion was lost,--Yeas 9, Nays 29. Mr. Johnson moved to amend the bill so as to keep alive the Act of 1793, saying: “The amendment, as the Senate will see, makes this bill like the one that we passed after debate.” This motion was also lost,--Yeas 17, Nays 22. So the Senate reversed its former decision on that question. The bill was then passed by the vote, Yeas 27, Nays 12, and was approved by the President June 28th. Here was the end of all Fugitive Slave Acts, and another blow at Slavery. THE NATIONAL BANKS AND THE CURRENCY. SPEECHES IN THE SENATE, ON AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL PROVIDING A NATIONAL CURRENCY, APRIL 27 AND MAY 5, 1864. April 26th, the Senate having under consideration the bill to provide a National Currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof, the Committee on Finance reported an amendment to strike out this clause,-- “And nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the taxation by States of the capital stock of banks organized under this Act, the same as the property of other moneyed corporations, for State or municipal purposes; but no State shall impose any tax upon such associations, or their capital, circulation, dividends, or business, at a higher rate of taxation than shall be imposed by such State upon the same amount of moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State: _Provided_, That no State tax shall be imposed on any part of the capital stock of such association invested in the bonds of the United States, deposited as security for its circulation,”-- and insert instead thereof another clause, which, after providing for payments to the Treasurer of the United States “in lieu of all other taxes,” further declared,--