The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-03-07

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
House IF Representatives..
WEDNESDAY,, ffB. %


by Air. Holmes, signed by The members
from Maine. respectfully Urging Congress, ioi
the reasons therein stated. as speedily as pos
siLle, 10 decide the question OF The admission
OF the said District into the Union as sepa
rate. sovereign and independent siaie-yhcI
was read aud ordered to lie on The able.
NEW STATES BILL.
The House resumed The consideration o.
The ame ndmenis OF The Senate 10 the bill lor
iiie admission Of Maine into tie UDien. Mr..
Rhea spoke about an hour on the subject par.
ticularly on The inapplicabIiiy OF The ordi.
nance of 1887 TO The territory west of the Mis-
sisippi
The question on discgreeiag to he Senate,
amendments was divided. on motion OF AR
| TAYLOR, so as TO take first the sense of The
| House, substantially, on the question Of disa.
greeing 10 the union OF The Missouri t,iIl with
that OF Maine, and the. question was decided
by yeas and nays. as follows -
For .ngreemg 10 de union Of fte txo bills.
Messrs. Adams, Allen. Of Mass. Allen, of NY.
Beecher, Boden, Brush, Buffnm, Butler, of N. Fl.
Campbell, Case, Clagset, Cook. Crafts. Cush-
man, Darlington, Dennison. Dewitt, Dickinson,
Dowse, Eddy, Edwards, of Con. Edwards. of Pen.
Fay, Foger, Forrest, Fuller, Fullerton, Gross, OF
N. Y. Gross, Of Fen. Guyon. Haetley, Hall, OF
n. Y. Hazard, Hemphill, Hendricks, Heuicls,
EIibsham, Hill, Holmes, Hostetter, Kendall. Kim
sey, kinsley, Lathrop, Lincoln, Linn, Liver'nore,
Lyman, Maclay, MoLane, of Del, Mallary, Mar
chand, Mason, Mech, II. Moore, S Moore, Mo-
nell. Noseley, Murray, Nelson, of Va. Parker, of
Mass. Patterson, Phelps Philson, Pitcher, Plumor,
Rich, Richards, Richmond, Rogers, Ross, samp-
! son, Sergeant, silsbee, Sloan, Smith. Of n. J.
Southland, Stevens, Storrs, Street, Strong. Of VI.
Strong, of N. Y. Tau. Taylor, 'fomlinson, Temp.
kins, Tracy, Upham, Van Rensselaer,, Wallace,
Wendoyer, Whitman, Wood-93.
Against disagresmg 10 the union If the bills,
Messrs. Abbot, Alexander. Allen Of Tenn. An
derson, Archer, Of Md. Afche-. Of Va. Baldwin,
Ball, Barbour, Bsyley, Bloomfield, Breyard,
Brown, Bryan, Burton, Burwell. Butler, of Lou.
Cannon, Cobb, Cooke, Crawford. Culpepper,
Cuthbert, Davidson, Earle, Edwards of N. c.
| Erwin, Fisher, Floyd, Garnet, Harding, Hooks,
johnson, Jones, of Va. Jones, Of Tenn. Kent, Lit
tie, Lowndes, M'Coy, M Creary, M'Lean, Of
Ken. Meigs, Mercer, Metoalf, Neale, Newton,
Oyerstreet. Parker, Of Va. Pinekney. Rankin,
Reed, Rhea, Ringgold, Settle, Shaw, Siukn.,
| Slocumb Smith, Of Md. B. Smith, Of Va A.
smy,h, Of Va. Smith, Of N. {. Strother, Swearin.
gen. Terrell, Tnnble, Tucker, Of Va. Tucker,
Of 8. c. Tyler. Walker, OF n. L. Warfeld, Vii.
Hams, DIVA Williams, ofN. C.-72.
So the House disagreed 10 iha, smsDdme ut
, Of the Senate which proposed TO annex the
Missouri 10 The Name bill.
The question was then taken on disagreeing
TO he residue OF the amendments OF the Sen.
ate. (the details OF The Missouri billy with the
exception Of that which embraces what is Ia
mi,srly called the compromise amenament---
and decided also by yeas and nays, in the at
frmatiye, a. follows -
For agreeing iOe
Against II 90
The question was next taken on disagree
ing 10 The 9ib and last section Of the amend.
ments Of tie Senate, (belng hat which pro.
poses to exclude slavery from all the territory
ives, Of the Mississippi, aud north Of SO, SO.
north lati ude. excepting within the limits of
The propo,ed Stale Of Missouri and was de-
cided by yeas aud nays, 10 the affirm alive, as
follows -
For dssgreeing $50
Against IL 10
Thus The House rejected all The amend.
lnents Of the Sensie 10 the Maine bill.
MISSOURI BILL.
The House then again resolved itself into .
committee Of the whole, on lis own blll--iLe
proposed restriction being still under consider
alton DIR. Edwards, OF Conn, resumed the
argument Which he commenced on Monday,
in favor OF The restriction, and spoke about
hall On hour in continuation.
Mr. Jones, Of Tenn. neat took the floor. and
spoke some time sgaIust the iesliieiien. when
the committee rose. by ? close ,oie--and
about 3 O'Clock the House adjourned.
Tuesday, rED. 20.
4 message was received from the Senate.
.,,,,,,rtno flat ,ba Senate ,,,s;s, IN ,ha;x .