REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS. By a resolution passed the Senate on Saturday, the Committee on Elections were instructed to report whether any member of their body were holding a seat here, who was at the time of his election holding an office of trust or profit under the authority of Congress, and to report such facts in the matter as had come to their knowledge. On examination of Senator A. Alien, we find he has been Post Master at Fairhaven; that after his nomination for the office which he now holds in this body, to wit, on the 1st day of September, he forwarded his resignation to the Post Office Department, and recommended at the same time the appointment of another person in his stead, and from that time to the present he has not acted as Post Master at said Fairhaven in any manner, nor has he in any way availed himself of the franking privilege, believing, (as he says,) that he had no more right to exercise that privilege than any other individual in said Fairhaven. The Post Office has been kept in the store of said Allen, and the business done by the person he recommended to the Department to succeed him in that office, as acting Post Master. And believing, as a majority of your Committee do, that the said Senator Allen has performed every duty on his part requisite for him to do, to be fully discharged from said office of Post Master at Fairhaven, and his giving up and relinquishing all clain or use to the franking privilege, and having given up, on the Ist September, all the books, papers and all things pertaining or relating to the Post Office at Fairhaven to the said successor, and not having since that time given any direction in any way to said office, he is, therefore, within the Constitution of Vermont, entitled to a quiet and unmolested seat in this body. CALVIN TOWNSLEY, for Committee. REPORT OF MINORITY OF COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS. To the Honorable Senate now in session: The undersigned, the minority of the Committee on Elections, to whom were referred two resolutions, one of which instructed your Committee to inquire whether there was any member of the Senate now holding an office of honor or profit under the authority of Congress, and the other directing said Committee to inquire whether any Senator now holding a seat was ineligible to that office at the time of his election, presents the following report:— That Alanson Allen, one of the returned Senators from the county of Rutland, was appointed Post Master for the town of Fairhaven, A. D. 1836, and that he has held the office ever since. In the winter of 1842 the said Allen received a letter from the Hon. Philo C. Fuller, requesting him to send his affidavit to the Post Office Department, stating that his bondsmen were responsible. This letter was answered by informing the Post Master General, that one of the said Allen's bondsmen had failed, and that if a new bond should be furnished, it would be executed and returned. After the said Allen's nomination and before his election a new bond was forwarded to him, which has not been signed. On the 1st day of September, 1842, the said Allen wrote and mailed his letter of resignation of the office of Post Master, directed to the Hon. P. C. Fuller, 2d Assistant P. M. General, which letter contained a request that Ira C. Allen, (the said Alanson Allen's nephew and partner,) should be appointed Post Master, to fill the supposed vacancy. On the 17th of Sept. last the said Alanson Allen received a letter from the said P. C. Fuller, requesting him to forward to the Post Office Department the aforesaid bond. Said letter did not acknowledge the receipt of the said Allen's letter of resignation. On the 22d day of Sept. the said Allen again wrote to the said Fuller, requesting to have his successor appointed as aforesaid. The bond aforesaid has not yet been executed, and the said Allen has not received an answer to either of his letters of resignation. The aforesaid Post Office is kept in the said Allen's store, and by his assistant, the said Ira C. Allen. Most of the way bills have been sent out in the name of Alanson Allen. The undersigned therefore recommends the adoption of the accompanying resolutions. All which is respectfully submitted. O. W. BUTLER. REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO REPUDIATION. To the Senate now in session: The select committee to whom were referred certain resolutions, passed by the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, relative to the repudiation of State debts, respectfully report: That the State of Vermont, being free from any public foreign debt, is not, consequently, required, by way of pledge, to make to other States or governments, any declaration of her views in relation to the sacredness of such debts; but being called upon by the resolutions above named to express her views upon the subject, she stands ready to disclaim all fellowship with the doctrine, that a State may or can refuse the payment of her just debts, whether foreign or domestic, and tben, under the shield of State sovereignty, escape the discredit ordinarily attached to the violation of moral obligations. The State of Vermont deems such obligations equally binding upon governments and individuals, and considers the doctrine, that a State may repudiate her debts, as nearly allied to the barbarous and unchristian doctrine, that "might makes right," a doctrine, indeed, too often carried out in practice, if not avowed; but which has, however, been professedly repudiated by the civilized world. Your committee, therefore, would recommend, as expressive of the sentiments of the people of this State relative to this subject, the adoption of the following resolutions. H. EATON, for committee. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, That this State has no sympathies with that legislation which_violates the pecuniary obligations of a State, and takes shelter under State sovereignty, to evade the force of those obligations. Resolved, That such a course is a violation of that good faith and high moral principle which should regulate the conduct alike of governments and individuals, and that it leaves upon the character of the government that resorts to it, a stain which nothing but a return to the path of honesty and rectitude, or an indefinite lapse of time, can wipe away. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the Executive of each of the several States. M REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO REDUCING POSTAGES AND ABRIDGING THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. The committee to whom were referred the documents communicated to the Senate by his Excellency the Governor, at the commencement of the session, from the Legislatures and the Executives of other States of the Union, having had under consideration the following resolutions adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New York, on the ninth of April last, and transmitted to the Governor of this State, to be laid before the Legislature thereof, to wit: "STATE OF NEW YORK. "Resolved, as the sense of this Legislature, That the franking privilege, tolerated by the post office law of the United States, is a monopoly unsuited to the spirit of the age, subject to enormous abuses, and an unreasonable burden to the few letter correspondents that bear the principal expense of the establishment, and ought to be abolished. "Resolved, That for the purpose of diminishing the burdens of correspondents, increasing the revenues of the post office establishment, and restoring the community, rich and poor, to an equal participation in its benefits, letter postage ought to be greatly reduced, and the disparity between the charge of letters and other matter carried in the mail, corrected. "Resolved, That our Representatives and Senators in Congress be respectfully requested to use their best endeavors to procure a reform in the post office laws, based on the above views. "Resolved, That the Executive of this State be respectfully requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolutions to the Senators and Representatives of this State in Congress, and also to the Executives of our sister States, with a view to their being laid before their legislative bodies.” Respectfully report the following resolutions, which they recommend for adoption: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, That they do concur in the said resolutions above recited; and that our Representatives and Senators in Congress be respectfully requested, to use their best endeavors to procure a reform in the post office laws, in conformity with the above views. Resolved, That the Executive of this State be respectfully requested to transmit copies of the foregoing report and resolutions to the Senators and Representatives of this State in Congress, and also to the Executives of our sister States, with the view to their being laid before their respective legislative bodies. P. STARR, for committee. INDEX. A Abbott, Richard F., petition of, 38, 96. Allen, A., motion that he be excused from attendance on Senate, 55, 66. resolutions from minority of Committee of Elections on his right to a seat, 56, 59, 64, 74, 92. 113. reports on his right to a seat, [Appendix 95, 96.] Amendment of resolution relative to act of 1841 in amendment of sec. 63, chap. 28, Revised Statutes, 10. motion to print Governor's message, 19. for the election of U. S. Senator for six years, 26. on extending jurisdiction of justices of the peace, 27. to bill S. 11, in addition to chap. 97 of the Revised Statutes, of motion to print report of Committee on Education, 36. to bill S. 44, relating to banks, 57, 60. to bill S. 29, in addition to chap. 44 of the Revised Statutes, 58, to bill S. 40, on boundary line between Bennington and Windham counties, 61. to bill H. 86, to amend sec. 11, chap. 16, of the Revised Statutes, 64. to bill H. 108, to amend sec. 6, chap. 83, of the Revised Statutes, 64, |