_Law of Retaliation._
Mr. OTIS called the order of the day on the bill vesting the power of
retaliation, in certain cases, in the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;
when
Mr. DENT moved to postpone the consideration of this bill until the next
session of Congress; which motion was negatived--35 to 32.
The House then went into a Committee of the Whole on this bill, and
after some discussion, and an amendment being introduced into the
preamble of the bill by Mr. DAYTON, (the Speaker,) to make it apply
generally to any acts of severity that may be committed by the French
Republic in pursuance of any violent decree, instead of applying
particularly to the decree declaring American citizens, found on board
vessels of their enemy, pirates, and liable to suffer death, the
committee rose, and the amendment was concurred in.