Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-03-07
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9.
SENATE.
MAINE AND MISSOURI BILL.

MAINE AND MISSOURI BILL.
The Senate proceeded to the consi.
Iteration of this bill when
Mr.. King, of N Y. wishing to offer to
the Senate his opinions on the Missouri
subject, moved to postpone the bill until
tomorrow; but a motion to postpone 1t
to Friday prevailed, and it was postponed
to that day accordingly.
The Senate took up the bill making
compensation for horses and other pro-
perry lost, captured, or destroyed,i in the
Seminole war; which was amended, on
the motion of Mr., Eaton, so as to extend
its provisions to rangers as well as
volunteers; and then the bill was post
poned to Tuesday next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES..
Mr.. Foot offered the following reso-
lutions for consideration
Resolved, by the Senate and House Of REPRE-
Sentatiues Of the United States Of .9n,erica, in
Congress assembled, That there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary seryitudc in any of the
territories of the United States, otherwise
than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted Pro-
yided, That this shall not be'ccnstrued to al
ter the condition or civil rights of any person
now held to service or labor in said territories
| Resolved, That it be, and is hereby, recon-
mended to the inhabitants of the several ter.
ritories of the United States, that, for the pur.
pose of etfectuay preventing the further ex-
tension of slavery, each territory, when au-
thorized by Congress to form I constitution
and state government, shall, by express pro-
vision in their constitution, prohibit inyolunta-
~ servitude, or slavery, otherwise than in the
punishment OF crimes.
Mr.. Herrick moved the adoption of a
resolution instructing the committee on
Roads I'd Canals to inquire into the ex-
pediency of providing by law for the APP
pointment of commissioners, to view,
survey, and mark road as a continual
ton of the national road, from Wheel
ing on to the seats of government oil
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and thence
to Saint Charles, in Missouri; and also
into the expectancy of providing by law
for the survey of the public lands
through which the said road may pass,
and authorize the appropriation of the
proceeds arising from the sale of each
unappropriated section, through which
it may pass, to the opening and i'm
proving of the same.
On the question whether the House
would now proceed to consider the mo-
ton, it was decided in the negative, and
the resolution Of course rejected.
Mr.. II. Nelson called for the con-
sidcration of the resolution offered by
him on Monday, in substance to suspend
all other business of the House, pending
the consideration of the question (now
under discussion) concerning the admis-
sion of Missouri into the Union with OF
without restriction-but the House re-
fused, by large majority, to consider
the resolution.
MISSOURI BILL.
The House then resumed, in commit
tee Of the whole, the consideration oil
this bill, and the restrictive amendment;
proposed thereto.
MIR. Sergeant, Of Pennsylvania, COM
menccd a speech in favor of the resric-
lton, ard spoke nearly three hours J;
when he gave way for motion for the
committee to riSe-which prevailed
and
The House adjourned.