Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-02-14
Eorss OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The crg:3ssrd bill IT, alter and cs-
tabiish certain post rnaas, MAS read
third timr, passed and sent to the Sc
pate f,r concurrence.
The engrosSe,i bill making apnro-
rriatinns for the support of thc riN'i
government for thu year 1891, was
read thigl time. passed, aud sent to
the Senate fnr concurrence.
MISSOURI.
Mr.. Clay, from select committee.
delivered the following report and a
mcnd;nent
The select committee ~ whom was refer
red the resolution from the senate declaring
the admission Of the state OF Missouri into
the Union, have, according to order, had
the same under consideration, and beg
leave 10 submit to the house the following
report;
: That they have entered upon the Cis-
charge of the duty assign them by the
house. with the most anxious desire to arrive
at a conclusion which would give general
satisfaction: That. in the prosecution of this
purpose, il seemed t. them TO be useful TO
ascertain, in the first place. by a full and
frank comparison OF opinions among them.
selves, whether any, and what. conditions
ought to be prescribed 10 the admission Of
Missouri into the Union: That, on making
this comparison, The opinion appeared to be
nearly unanimous in the committee, that no
other conditions ought now to lie required
than those which were specified in the act
Of the last session Of Congress, providing
for The admission OF Missouri into the Uni
on; and that. c"nsi icrlng all the Circum-
stances attending that act, The settlement
which IT made OF tie question of restriction
ought mol 10 be disturbed: That this opinion
limited their subsequent enquiry to the
consideration of the single question, whe-
ther the constitution which Missouri has
formed for herself contained any thing in it
which furnished valid objection to her in.
corporation in the Union? And on that ques-
ton, they thought that there VAS no other
provision in that constitution 10 which con-
gress could OF right take exception, bot that
which makes ii The duty of the Legislature
OF Missouri L. pass laws o proven; tree ne
groes and muIsttoes from going 10 and set
Ting in tie said state. In regard TO that
clause, the same diversity OF opnit exist
ed among the members OF the con mittee
which had Geen previously manifested in
the house; one portion believing il liable TO
an Interpretation repusnsnt to the coOstltu-
ton OF the United States; and the other
thinking it not exposed TO that objection, or
that. If il were, the exceptionable interpre-
"tation was superseded by the paramount au-
thority of the federal constitutions
With these conflicting opinions, the com
mittee thought it best that, without either
side abandoning its opinion, an endeayor
should he made 10 frame an amendment to
the se Mates resolution, which, compromi.-
ting neither, should contain an adequate Sc
curity against the violation Of the pryile-
ges and immunites OF citizens OF other
states in Missouri; and, majority Of the
committee thinking that such security could
not he sufficiently afforded without some
previous act to be done by the legislature
sf his.ouri, the amendment wa: finally a.