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Show A POLITICAL TEXT-BOOK FOR 1860. aforesnh!, when Mr. Benton moved that they lie ou the table. Lost: Yens, 24 ; Nays, 28. .Mr. Denton next moved that they be so nmended n not to connect or mix up the adrui s"ion of California with any other question. Lo t: Yeas, 23; Nays, 28. . . Various modifications of the gencnc tdca were severally voted down, generally by lat·ge maj oritics. . . On motion of Mr. Foote, of Mtss., 1t was now Ordered That the re~olutlons submitted by Mr. Dell on \he 2 th February, together with the resolutions sutrmitted on the 29th of January, hy Mr. Clay, be referred to a select Committee of thirteen; P1·ovided, that the Senate docs not deem it necessary, and therefore declines, to . expre s In advance any opinion, or to give any instructiOn, either general or specific, for the guidance of the said Committee. Ap1·il 19.-The Senate proceeded to elect by b~illot such "'elect Committee, which wn.s com'] lOsed as foll ows: Mr. Ilenry Clay, of Ky., Chairman. MCS8rs. Dickinson, of N. Y. Cooper, of Pa. Phelps, of Vt. Downs, or La. Bell of 'l'enn. J(ing, or Ala. Cas~, or Mich. Mangum, of N. C. Webster, of Mass. .Mason, of Va. Berrien, of Ga. Drlght, of Ind. . May 8.-)fr. Clay, from said Committee, reported at length, the views nnd recommendn.t ion' of the report bciug substantially as follo w~ : 1. The admission of any new State or States formed out of Texas to be postponed until they shall hereafter prelent themselves to be received into the Union, when It will be the duty of Congre s ftlirly and faithfully to execute ) the compact with Texas, by admltUog such new State or States. 2. The admission forthwith of California into the Union, with the boundaries which she has proposed. 8. 'J'he esta.blislunent of Territorial Governments, without the Wilmot Pro vi ' 01 for New-1\lexlco and Utah, embracing all tho territory recently acquired by the United States rrom 1\!exico, uot contained in the boundarles of California. 4. 'l'he combination of these two last mentioned measures In the same bill ; :5. 'l'he establi::;hrnent of the western and northern boundaries or Texas, and the exclusion from her jurisdiction or all N ew-1\Iexico, with the grant to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent; and the section for that purpose to be incorporatetl in the bill admitting California and establishing Territor·h\1 GoYernments for Utah and Ncw-1\fexico. 6. More e!fectual enactments of law to secure the prompt deli \'Cry of peri!ons bound to service or labor in one State, Uthlcr the laws Lhereof, who escape into another State ; and, 1. Abstaining from abolishing Slavery; but under n heavy penalty, prohiuiting the slave-traue In th'e District <Jf Columbia. The Senate proceeded to debate from day to d01y the pro visions of the principal bill thus reported, commonly termed "the Omnibus." J une 28.- Mr, Soule, of Louisiana, moved that all south of 360 30' be cut off from California, and formed into a Territory entitled South California, and that said Territory "shall, when ready, able, and willing to become a State and deserving to be such, be admitted with or without Slavery, as the people thereof shall deslre, and make known through their Constitution." This was r rjcctcd: Yeas, 19 (all 8outnern); Nays, 36. J1tly 10.-Thc .di scus~ion was i?terrupted by the death of Prcs1dent Taylor. Mtllard Fillmore su_ccccdcd to the Presidency, and William R. Kmg, of Alabama, was chosen President of the Senate, p,·o tempore. July 15.- The bill was reported to the Senate nnd amended so as to substitute " that Congress shall make no law establishing or prohibiting" Slavery in the new 11crritorics, instead of "iu respect to'' it. Y cas, '27 ; Nn.ys, '25 . Mr. Seward moved to add at the cud of the a7th cction : Dut neither Slavery nor Involuntary servitude shall be allowed in either or the Territories of N ew·Mexico or Ulab, except on legal conviction for crime. Which was negatived; Yeas and Nays not taken. J uly 17.-Thc Senate resumed the consideration of the " Omnibus bill." Mr. Denton moved n change in the proposed boundary between Texas and New-Mexico. Rc· jcctcu : Yens, 18; Nays, 3G. Mr. Foote moved that the 34th parallel of north latitude be tho northern boundary of Texas throughout. Lost: Y cas, 20; Nays, 34. Jul,q 19.-Mr. King moved that the parallel of 350 30' be the southern boundary of tho State of California. Rejected : Y cas, 20; Nays, 37. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, moved 360 30'. Re. jectcd: Yens, 23; Nays, :32. July 23d.-Mr. Turney, of Tenn., moYcd that the people of Cttlifornia be enabled to form a new State Constitution. Lost: Y cas, 19; Nays, 33. Mr. J eff. Davis, of Mississippi, moved to add: And that all laws and usages exlstln ~ in said Territory, at the 1late of Its acquisition by the United States, which deny or ohstruct tho right of any citizen of the Unitetl States to remove to, and reside In, said 'l'crrltory, with any species or property legally held In nny of the States of this Union, be, and arc hereby declared to be, null and void. 1'his wa4 rrjcctcd: Y cas, 22 ; Nays, 33. Yea.~-For Davis's amendment: Messrs. Atchison, Mo. Kln ~, Ala. Dnmwell, S. C. l\l ;tnt.;lun. Y 0. Ddl, 1'enn. l\1 a:mu, '1 a. Berrien, Oa. Morton, Fla. Jlutler, S. 0. Pratt, Md. Clemens, Ala. Husk, 'J'exa.s. Davis, Miss. Sebastian, Ark. Dawson, Ga. Soule, La. Downs, Ln. 'l'urney, Tenn. Houston, Texas. Underwood, Ky. lluntcr, Vn.. Yulee, Jo'la.-22. Nays-Against Davis's amendment : Messrs. Dndger, N. C. Foote, Miss. Daldwln, Conn. Greene R. L Denton, Mo. Hale, N. H. Bradbury, Me. HamlinJ Me. Dright, Ind. Jones, !own. Oass, 1\Jich. .Miller, N. J. Chase, Ohio. Norris, N. H. Clarke, It. I. Pearce, Md. Clay, Ky. Seward, N. Y. Cooper, Pa. Shields, Ill. Davis, Mass. ~mith, Conn. Dayton, N. J. ~pruance, DeL Dlcklnsonl N. Y. Sturgeon, Pa. Dodge, W sc. Upham, Vt. Dodge, Iowa. Wales, Del. Felch, Mich. Walker, Wise. Whitcomb, lnd.-33. Aug. 10.-Tho California bill was now taken up. Mr. Yulee, of Fla., moved a substitute, remanding California to a tel'l'ito1·ial condition, and limiting her southern boundary. Rejected: Yeas, 12 (all Southern); Nays, :35. Mr. Foote moved n. liko project, cutting ofY so much of California as lies south of 36 deg. 30 min., and erecting it into the TetTitory of ... Colorado. Rejected: Yeas, 13 (ultra Southern); Nays, 29. Aug. 12.-Still another proposition to limi& TIIE CO)fPROlUSlr-KANSAS-NERRASKA.. 7t California southwardly, by the line of 36 deg. , l\lessrs. llClldwln, Conn., Ewlng, Ohio, 30 min., was made by Mr. Turney, and l'c.icctcd: CB~~L.Stoen ,0t.htloo., Hamlin. Me., Yea~, 20 (nll So utI lCI'Il ) ; JJ..t~.T ays, :30. . Aft cr d e- 1 Dad~,, 1\l ass,. , fU:epwhtaum!l,, VNt. .,Y ., fea.tiuO' Southern motions to adjo urn, postpone, I Dodge, Wis. . Winthrop, 1\Jass. and _Ill~ on ~he tn.bl ·, th<;, bill was <'ngro~ ed for , o all the bills o1·iginally included in Mr. a tlmd rea.dn1~ : Yca8, 3,) (all the cnatorR from Clays "On~11ibus" were passed-two of them in Free Stntc,, w1th B ·11, Be nton, Ilouston, Spru- the same bill-after the Senate had once voted ance, Wale and Underwood) ; Nays, 19 (all to sever them. from Sln.Yc States). .l\J r. Clay still ab~n t, en-deavoring to restore his failing health. Attg. 13.-Thc Califomia bill paRsed its third reading: Yea~, 3 1; Nays, 18 (H.Il Southern ). Aug. 14.-'l'hc cnate now took up the bill Ol'ganizing the Terri tol'ics of N cw Mexico and Utah (as it wns origiually reported, prior to its incl usion in Mr. Glay'H '1 Omuibns"). Mr. Chn e, of Ohio, moved to amend the bill by inse rting : Nor shall there be In said Territory either Slavery or Involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly conncted to have been personally guilty. lVhich was rC'jcctcd: Y cas, 20; Nays, 25. The bill was then reported complete, aud passed to be cngros ·eel. Att,rJ. 15.- Sn.id bill had its tl1ird reading, and wn.s finally passed: Y cas, 27 ; Nays, 10 . [The Senate proceeded to take up, con.c;idcr, mature, and pass the :Fugitive Slave bill and the bill excluding the Slave-Trade from' tire District of olumbia; but the history of these is but remotely connected with our theme J. We rctum to the House. ' Aug. 2 .-Tire Cali fornia bill was taken up read twice, and committed. ' The Texas bill corning up, lfr·. Inrrc, of Ala. objected to it, and a vote was tRken ~n its r <>j cction : Y cas, :3-1; Nays, 1 G8 ; so it was not rejected. Tn~: KANSAS-l'ir:nllASKA STllUGOI,F.. Out of the Louil'liana. Terri tory, since the ad· mission firt>t of Louisiana n.nd then of Missouri as Slave States, there had been formC'd the Tcrrito ric of Arkansas, Iowa, and Minnesota ; the tirst without, and the two others with, Congressional inhibition of Slavery. Arkar1~as, iu due cour 'c, became a Slave, Iowtt a.nd Minnc ota. Free States. The destiny of one tier of States, fronting upon, and we tward of~ the Mi sissippi, was thus settled. What should be the fate of the next tier? The region lying immediately westward of Mi ·souri, with much Territory uorth, as well UR a more clca.rly defined district south of it, was long si11cc dedicated to the uses of the Aborigines -uot merely those who bad originally inhabited it, but the tribes from time to tilllc removed fr·om the States castwar·d of the Mississippi. Very li ttle, if any, of it was legally open to settlement by Whites; and, with tuc exception of the few and small military and tr:tding po~ts thinly scattered o-ver its surface, it i~ probable that ca rcclv two hundred white fa.milics W6re located in the spacious wilderness hounded hy Missouri, Iowa, and .Minnesota. ou the ea~t, the British possessio us on the north, the ere t of the Rocky Monu ta.ius on the west, n.ud the settled portion of New-Mexico and the liuc of 360 ~)' on the south, at the time when Mr. Douglas first, at the session of 1852-3, submitted a !Jill organiziug the Territory of Ncbmska, uy which title t he region above bounded l1ad come to be vaguely indicated. 'fhis region was indisputably included withir. the scope of the exclusion of SlavCt'Y from all Federal Territory north of 360 30', to which tile South had assented by the tenus of the Mi~souri compact, in order thereby to secure the admission of Missouri as a Slave State. Nor was it once iutimatcd, during the long, earnest, and searching debate in the 8enatc on the Com· promise Measures of 1850, that tile adoption of those measures, whether together or ~eparc.ttely, would invoh·e or imply a repeal of the Mi souri Restric tion. 'Vc have seen on a former page how Mr. Clay's original suggestion of a Compromise, which was substantially that ul timately adopted, was received by the Southern Senators who spoke on its introduction, with hardly a qualification, as a vir·tual surrender of all that the South had ever claimed with respect to the new TcrritoricR. And, ft·om the beginning to the close of the long and able discussion which followed neither friend nor foe of the Compro· miscs, n~r of any of them, hinted ~h~t ono cm~ct of their adoption would bo the hftmg of the Missouri restriction from the Territory now covered by it. When the Compromises of 1850 were accepted in 1852 by the Naiional Couven· tion~ )f the two great parties, as a settlement of tlu Jistracting controversy therein contem· Mr. lloyd, of Ky., moved to amend it so as to create anci define t hereby the Territories of New-~fcxi co and Utah, to be slavcboldin~'~' or not as their people shall determine wllcu ~h ey shall come to form State governments. [In othc: WOt'ds_, to appcn? the bill organizing the Terntory of New lfcxtco to the Texas bill.] Sept, 7.-Thc Cal iforHia. bill now came up. Mr. Boyd moved his amendment already moved ~o the Texas bill. Mr. Vinton, of Ohio, declared tt out of order. The Speaker again ruled it in order. Mr. Vinton appealed, and the llousc overruled the Speaker: Yeas (to sustain) 87 · Nays, 115. ' ' Mr. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., moved to cut off from California all below 36° 30'. Rejected: Yeas, 76; Nays, 131. The bill wn.s uow ordered to a thir·d readino-: Y_cas, ~51; Nays, o7, and thcu passed: Ye~g, l oO; Nays, 6G (all Southern). Tbe S~nate bill organizing the Territory of Utah (wtthont restriction as to Slavery) was then taken up, and rushed throu crh the same da): : Yeas, 97 ; Nnys, 85. (The0 Nays were ~ltunly Northern Free Soil men ; but some tl?uthern men, for a difi'crcnt reason voted Wtth them]. ' Sept. 9.-The llouse having returned the ~~·xa~ Bo.undar! bill, with an amendment (Linn .oyc ), mclndmg the bill orcrani:r.in l'r the Terrtto!' y of New Mexico thcr«;'ein tl~o Senate ~occeded to consider and arrree' to the same · Ca.H, 31 ; Nays, 10, namely: 0 • |
