The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st ultimo, instructing them “to inquire into the expediency of repealing or modifying the twenty-fifth section of an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,’ passed the 24th September, 1789,” having made a report, accompanied by a bill to repeal the same, the minority of that committee, differing in opinion from their associates upon this important question, deem it to be their duty to submit to the House the following report: The Constitution of the United States has conferred upon Congress certain enumerated powers, and expressly authorizes that body “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying these powers into execution.” In the construction of this instrument, it has become an axiom, the truth of which cannot be controverted, that “the General Government, though limited as to its objects, is supreme with respect to those objects.” The Constitution has also conferred upon the President, “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur,” the power to make treaties. By the second section of the sixth article of this instrument it is declared, in emphatic language, that “this Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”