The St. Landry whig., 1845-01-02

granted to foreigners by any Federal or ptate
Court in violation of the provisions OF the law
of Congress, and that the committee have pow
er to send for persons and papers. Further, thai
the said committee be instructed to inquire into
the expediency ola law empowering the District
Court of the u. S. to cancel and declare null all
naturalization papers which may be found, upon
judicial investigation, to have been granted IN
violation of the naturalization laws.
Mr.. Benton offered the following resolution;
Rcsolued, That the Committee on Foreign
Relations be instructed TO inquire whether any
provisions are necessary in providing Tor the an.
~nexation Of Texas to protect the United states
from specializing operations IN Texas land or
scrip; and whether any persons employed by the
Government are connected with such sp9cula-
tons.
That the said Committee be Instructed to in
quire whether the Texas Treaty was commenced
Or agreed upon before The receipt of Lord Aher-
despatch of December 26, 1843, to Mr..
PHckenham, communicated to our Government
in February, 1914.
That it be instructed to obtain, if possible,
che private letter, from London, quoted in Mr..
Upshur's first despatch in the Texas negotiation,
and supposed by the President to have been car
ried away among private papers; and to ascer-
tain the name of the writer of said letter; and
that said Committee be authorized to send for
persons and papers to answer the foregoing in
quiries, and any others that may be Necessary to
promote the safe, speedy, peaceable and honor
able annexation of Texas to the United States.
Mr.. Washington Hunt, Of New York gave
notice of his intention to introduce a Joint reso-
luton SO to amend the constitution as to make it
demonstrations to elect a President for a second
term.
On the 18th, in the Senate, Mr.. Johnson, of
Louisiana, introduced a bill to extend the iuris-
diction of the courts in certain cases.
Mr.. Phelps, of VI. called up his resolution
calling for Information as to the debts of Texas,
and the amount of lands granted blythe Spanish,
Mexican and Texas Governments, in the Terri
tory of Texas, and it was adopted.
The bill for the payment OF the claim of the
heirs ofRobert Fulton, amounting to some $7O,-
900, was passed and sent to the House.
Mr.. Evans moved an Executive Session,
which was carried, and in Executive session, the
Senate confirmed the nominaaiep of Mr.. Van
Ness as Collector of the port Of New York.
The following i a bill providing for the an.
~nexation Of Texas to the United States, introdu-
ced in the Senate by Mr.. Benton, viz
Be enacted By The Senate and House of Re
presentatiuesoff the United States IF America III
Congress assembled. That the President ofthe
United States, be and hereby is authorized and
advised to open negotiations with Mexico and
Texas, for the ad justment of boundaries, and the
annexation o the ~lattcrto the United States, ON
the follwing basis, to wit
/. The boundary of the annexed territory to
be in the desert prairie west ofthe Nueces, and
along the highlands and mountain heights which
divide the waters of the Mississippi from the wa
tiers Of the Rio del Norte and to latitude forty
two degrees north.
II. TN people of Texas, by "a Legislative act.
or by an a lthentic act which shows the will o.
the majority, to express their assent to said an.
nexation.
Ill. A State, to be called SHE STATE of Teras,'
with boundaries fixed by herself, and an extern
not exceeding the largest State in the Union, be
admitted into the Union, by virtue ofthis act, OF
an equal footing with the original States.
~. The remainder of the annexed territory
to be held and disposed of by the United State,
as one of their territories, and to be called I'll,
Southern Territory.'
V. The existence of slavery to be forever pro.
hibited in the northern and northwestern part o
said territory, west of the 10th degree of longi
tude west from Greenwich. so as TO divide, AZ
equally as may be the whole of the annexed
country between slaveholding and non-slavchol
ding States.
vi. The assent of Mexico to be obtained By
treaty to such annexation and boundary, to be
dispensed with when the Congress of the Unitct
States may deem such assent 10 be unnecessary
VII. Other details of the annexation to be
adjusted by treaty, so far as the same may come
within the scope Of the t~reaty-making power.
The bill was read twice, and referred on mo.
ton olMr. Archer, TO the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.