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ed that the public interest requires that such publications should be prevented for the future: Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire if any legislation is necessary to prevent hereafter the publication of such information in regard to army and navy movements, and the military defences, as may disclose to the enemy any facts which he may use to our injury. After some debate, in which Mr. Wigfall opposed the resolution and Messrs. Sparrow, Hill, and Burnett, advocated it, the resolution was adopted. The bill to amend the act to aid any State in communicating with and preparing records of its troops, was reported from the Military Committee, with a substitute, which was adopted, and the bill was passed. It allows the State officers engaged in preparing records of State troops to purchase rations and forage upon the same terms as officers of the provisional army. Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to provide for