The Secretary read, as follows: Reuoloed,That whereas it devolves upon the Gen eerxaml tAnssgeimn btlhyeof FetdheisraSl tCatoentgorefislls.tbhye tvhaecaenleccietisonnoowf 2 U.S.Senators,and that this House, feeling the decp importance of the dutyso devolving upon them.desire thntthe most fit persons be selecte to fill such vacancies and believing that patriotism, honesty,and capacity are the only measuresbywhich Inch fitness can be trulyjudired: Thoroforo, Beilrennlom1T.hat any person whoniayorshall ofier hiinselfas it candidate for the sunragesof this House for the position of U.S. Senntor,must,prior to going into the election of U.S.Senators. file With the clerk of illlfl H0!l80 a plain and unequiv ocal answerto the followmir questions and also take nd subscribe the test oath prescribed for U.S. Senators and that sue oath and such ques otlfflnth“i sfiHlllollul be subscribed and sworn tobeforo the clerk 1. Have you ever taken an oath to support the constitution of the confederate States: if you have, miller what circumstances? 0. 2HMO You ever Eisned an petition or paper, requesting any convention, body, legislature or as— aeinbliiizeof citizens,to authorize or re nest them. to authorize them to transfer the State of Arkansas from the Federal Union, or to acknowledge th right of secessionfrom said Federal Union by said Arkansas, or to request said body, assemblage,convention, or legislature, to pass any outor resolution efseoeuicn; or if when paued. did you indorse such procedure;, ifig, under what circumstances? 0. 3. Have you everhold any elective or miiitary office in this State since the supposed act of secirsien of the Stptoof Arkansas; ifso, what was such olhocl o. 4. Have you ever aided or abetted,directly or in directly, the secessionof the State of Arkansas from the Federal Union? No run one. I do solemnly swear (or affirm)that I have never voluntarily hornonrnis against the U.S. since. have bei n acitizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance. counscl or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority, or pretended authorit, in hostility to the U.S.; that I have not yic deda voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the U.S.hul tile or ininiical thercto and I do further swciir (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and abilitv. I will support and de fcnd the Constitution of the U.S. against all enemies foreign and domestic: that I will bear true fiiithnnilulli giiince to the some; that I take this obs liirntion freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion: and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help meGod.WILLIAM 7 D. snow. Sworn and subscribed before me this 1st day of ay, " x iv. nouns. Clerk of the HoRep.