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Various members submit compromise propositions to be considered by the House. The House considers the report of the Committee of Thirty-Three. By resolution, the Special Committee of Five is granted leave to sit during sessions and report when necessary. The House recieves a message from the President on the condition of the country, containing resolutions from Virginia on a Peace Conference.
Resolved, That the members of this House from border slave States be respectfully requested to submit to this House an ultimatum proposition, embracing their views upon the questions now dividing the Union, and by which they are willing to stand, and pledge their respective States to stand, now and hereafter, as a final settlement of said questions.