Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-03-01

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Congress--Territ0r Business.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 10
4 Mr.. A. c. DoDcr called up the bill
making appropriations for certain improve.
mcnts in the Territory Of Iowa; which
after some explanations, was laid aside "a
be reported to the House.
/ Mr.. A. C.. DopGE next called ND the
bill No. 588, being bill supplemental ia
!, an act entitled An Act for laying of the
towns Of Fort Madison and Burlington, in
the county Of Des Moines and towns OF
Belleview, Dubuque, and Peru, in the
county Of Dubuque, Wisconsin, and for
other purposes, approved I'd July, 1886,
and the amendatory act thereto.
No amendment being proposed, the bill
was laid aside 10 be reported.
The bill for the payment of the Iowa
Militia. called into service in December,
1889, during the boundary quarrel between
Missouri and Iowa. was next called IN.
Mr.. JAMESON stated his views on the
bill, to which he forebore 10 press his for
mer objections, although (he was UNDER
stood to say he considered the Governor
Of the Territory had transcribed the pre-
per limits Of his authority in calling out the
militia, the compensation for whose SER
vices the bill proposed TO make. He vim
Dictated the right Of the position of Missouri
in this boundary controversy with Iowa.
The debate was continued BY others.
The bill was about being laid aside to be
reported, when
Mr.. RATHBuS offered an amendment
providing for the payment of the militia Of
Missouri, called out for similar service in
defence Of her constitutional limits. ~
Mr.. R. briefly stated, that the appropri-
alton proposed in his amendment was as
just as the bill itself; and equally Just, he
concluded, would be the payment of the
militia Of Michigan. Ohio, Sc, who had
performed similar service, and for which
their States had no idea of calling on the
general government for payment.
Mr.. WELLER objected to The amendment
as designed to defeat the bill, and advocated
the passage of the bill in its original form.
Mr.. RATnsuS rejoined, and opposed the
bill.
Mr.. WELLER appealed to gentlemen to
forego the debate on the question OF bonn-
dairy till it came up in a regular manner.
There was bill before the House for the
admission Of Iowa into the Union, which
would shortly come up, and then the whole
debate would have to be gone over again.
MIR. A. G. DoDcE replied 10 the remarks
of Mr.. JAMESON, defending the claim of
Iowa to the boundary line asked for BY her.
On motion by Mr.. CAVE Johnson, the
bill was laid aside to be reported to the
House.
Mr.. A. v. BRowS moved that the COM
mittee take up the bill providing for the
admission Of Florida and Iowa into the
Union on an equal footing with the other
States; and the bill was accordingly taken
up. and .-ad by the clerk al length. Ine
flrst section was read, and passed without
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To the second section an amendment was
offered BY Mr.. RELrE, defining the boun-
daries Of Iowa and Missouri. VII
Mr.. A. v. BRows said the Committee
on Territories had avoided this perplexinc /
question, and he trusted this committee
would not now enter upon it. OF the con-
.roversy between Missouri and Iowa, they
had heard much this morning; and he ap-
pr ehended it might embarrass the passage
of this bill if any other course were pur-
sued than that laid down by the Committee
On Territories, in provision of this bill.
which left the question Of boundary TO lie
settled hereafter, in mode pointed out.
The northern boundary of Missouri had to h
'e settled; and when it was defined, the
Committee on Territories proposed that It
'hould be the southern boundary If lows.
lie hoped, therefore, that this perplexing
question would be disposed.of as the Com
nittee on Territories designed it to be, and ,
bat it would not be brought into their dis
ussion on this occasion.
Mr.. RELrE spoke in support Of his
mendment.
Mr.. BRENeLE said Missouri was now ,
tate Of this Ution, and her northern boun-
cry had to be defined and settled By the /.
upreme Court Of the United States. In ,
lis respect, then, she was above and be- :
ond the action Of Congress. He therefore, i.
some length, opposed the amendment. :
MIR. DUNCAN moved the following amend !
tent to the amendments:
Strike out the second section after the
'ord ''that," in the first line, and insert. d
This admission Of the State Of Iowa is f
pom the express condition that the said .
tate shall consist Of, and have jurisdiction Z
yer, the territory included within the fol- s
wing boundaries, to wit: beginning in the Il
iddle OF the St. Peters river, at the iunc- s;
on Of the Wantonwon or Blue Earth riv- e,
;; with the said river st. Peters runni, al
ence due east to the boundary line OF the to
erritory Of Wisconsin, in the middle of c
e Mississippi river; thence down the
iddle Of the last named river with the ar
undary line Of the Territory of Wiscon- ii,
\ and State Of Illinois to the northeast hs
rner Of the State Of Missouri, in said m
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