Mr. WILLEY. I do not rise, sir, to add anything to the remarks which I made the other day on the propriety of bringing the former county of Alexandria back into the DistCol. The discussion of this bill has only increased my conviction of the impropriety originally of transferring the section of the District south of the Potomac to the State of Virginia. That it ought to be 1!. art of the District, it seems to me is perectly obvious; but at the same time I hesi State as much about the propriety of passing this bill now as I did at 1st. It seems to me to be exclusively a question of law. It must result in that at last; and the passage of this bill under existing circumstances, if I am correct in my conception of what must be the ultimate result of the question, would only serve to complicate the diculties already existing and to entail mischief and misery upon the people of Alexandria and on that side of the river. If the law retroceding the county of Alexan dria to the State of Virginia be constitutional, it seems to me that it is utterly beyond our control. Virginia, by a solemn act of her legislature, agreed to accept the cession if made. the cession was made. Here, then, is a compact executed, complete, beyond our control, provided Congress had the constitutional power to pass that net. If, therefore, it was constitutional it is beyond our control, and any act that we may pass will only place ourselves in a false position, and, as I said just now, complicate the difficulties that are upon us. If the law of retrocession be unconstitutional, then our action is equally nu story; it is repealing a law which in point 0 fact does not exist; it is making that null and void which is null and void; and the only way in which that fact can he certainly and satisfactorily ascertained will be by a resort to the judiciary, that we may have the thing decided by a tribunal whose decisions shall be ultimate in the premises. If we pass this bill it will only drive the party on the other side into court. Why not, if necessary, pass a JtResolution directing the AttyGen of the U.S. to make a case by quo warranto or some other proceeding' But, sir, I rose principally to ask the attention of the honorable Senfrom Ohio to some of the provisions of this bill. I have nothing to add: to what I said the other day on the impropriety of passing the bill; but I respectfully suggest to the honorable Senfrom Ohio that before this bill passes. if it shall pass, it ought to be subjected to very critical and thorough revision. Allow me to direct his attention to the 1st section. It is there declared “that the act of Congress approved July 9, A. D. 1846, retrocedin to the State of Virginia that portion of th district ten miles square, as provided by the Constitution" I do not understand that; I do not understand that the Constitution ever provided that we should receive from Virginia ten miles square, but that seems to be the provision of this section “known as the DistCol.”