The PRESIDENT protempore. The reading of those sections will be disensed with uulgss some Senator desires that a l the bill be res. The Secretary proceeded to read the bill from the 10th section. The 10th section provides that barges curring passengers while in tow of a steamer she I be subject to the provisions of the acts for the preservation of the lives of passengers, so far as relates to lire buckets, axes, and life preservers. For a violation of this section the penalty is to be $100. By the 11th section steamers used as freight boats are to be subject to the same inspection and requirements as provided for ferry, tug, and canal boats, by an act relating to stenmboats, approved the 8th day ofJuuc, 1864, and to the provisions of this act. The 12th section provides that if any person connected, as amcmber or otherwise, with any association of steamboat pilots. engineers, masters, or owners, shall accept or attempt to exercise the functions of the office of steamboat inspector, it shallbe a misdemeanor, for which he shall forfeit his office, and shall be further subject to a penalty of $500. By the 13th section all vessels navigating the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and other waters of the U.S. are made subject to the navigation laws of the U.S.; and all vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and so navigatin, are also to be subject to all rules and reguations consistent therewith, established for the government of steam vessels in passing, as provided in the 29th section of an act relating to steam vesse, approved the 30th August, 1852. And every sea oing steam vessel now subject or hereby m 0 subject to the navigation laws of the U.S., and.to these rules and regulations, when under way, except upon the high seas, is to be under the control and direction of pilots licensed by the inspectors of steam Vessels; vessels of other countries and public vessels of the U.S. only. exccpted. The 14th section provides that all sea going steamers carrying passengers and those navigating the chain of northwestern lakes, shall have the life boats required by law, provided with suitable bout disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to be operative by one rson, by which they may be disengaged at p more from the tackles by which they are lowered into the water. By the 15th section it is provided that the provision for a foremost head light for steamships, in an not entitled “An act fixing certain rules and regulations for preventing collisions on the water, ” approved the 29th day of April, 1804, shall.not be construed to apply to other than ocean going steamers and steamers carrying sail. River steamers navi gatir‘ waters limving into the Gulf of Mexico are to carry the following lights, namely, one red light on the outboard side of the port smoke pipe, and one green light on the out board side of the starboard smoke pipe; these lights to show both forward and aft, and also abeum on their respective sides. All coasting steamers and those navigating bays, lakes, or other inland waters, other than ferry boats, and those above provided for, are to carry the red and green lig its, as prescribed for ocean going steamers; and, in addition thereto. a central range of 2 white lights; the after light being carried at an elevation of at least fiiieen feet above the light at the head of the vessel; the head light to be so constructed as to show a good light through 20 points of the compass, namely, from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on either side of the vessel; and the after light to show all around the horizon. The 16th section provides that the annual compensation paid to steamboat inspectors shall be hereafter as follows: to each local inspector for the districts of NewYork. NewOrleans, and SanFrancisco, $2,000; for the districts of phil adelphia, StLouis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburg, $1, 800; for the districts of Baltimore, Louis ville, Buffalo. Detroit, and the asst inspect ors at NewYork, $1, 600; for the districts of Boston, Chicago, Galena, Mobile, and Port land, in Oregon, $1, 200; for the districts of newLondon, Memphis, Wheeling, and Cleveland, $1,000; for the districts of Portland, in Maine, Norfolk. Charleston, Savannah, Galveston, Nashville, Oswego, and Burlington, $000; to the supervising inspector of the Pacific coast, $2, go0; to other supervising inspectors, $2,000 each. The 17th section provides for the appointment, under the direction of the SecyTreasury, of one clerk each in the local offices at NewYork and NewOrleans, and one clerk for the board of supervising in spectors, to be under the direction of the Secretary of the board: and the annual compensation allowed to these clerks is to be $1.000 each. And one additional inspectOr of boilers is to be appointed for the district of NewYork, who is to be allowed a compensation of $1,500 perannum. The 18th section repeols all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The ComCommerce reported the bill with several amendments. The 1st amendment was in section one, line 5. after the word “commerce, ” to insert the words “wrongfully or unreasonably;” and in line 7 after the word “license” to strike out. the words “for any reason that shall be deemed insufficient, or found to be untrue in fact. by any supervising inspector or board of local inspectors to whom complaints shall be made;” so that the section will read: That if anyengineeror pilot, liconsed in pursuance oflaw by any inspectoror boardof inspectors shall rteoatshoenahbinlydernnce of commerce wrongfully or unscl, refuseto serve as sue] on any steamves as authorisedby the terms of his license or shall fail to deliver to the applicant for such services.at the timcot' such refusal.it thesumcshull be demanded, a.statement in writing. signed by such engineer or pilot. of the reasons therefor or if any pilot shall refuse to admit into the pilot house with him any person or persons whom the captain or owners of any steamboatma desireto place there for the purpose of acfpurmg t 9 knowledge of piloting, his license shall be immediately revoked.