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Mr.. Berrien opposed the amendmeI, and ap-

Mr. Derrlen oppOseu TIC aue"u'pet, ahu f'P
peaIed to Mr.. Davis, as a sou'hen man, to
withdraw the amendment-as fatal the puf.
pose which all contemplated.
Mr.. Davis said he had proposed th from his
own conviction Of right, and becaus he be.
leved it stood better chance than te bill be-
fore the Senate, as amended.
Mr.. Metcalfe was surprised that an southern
man, under the circumstances, shuld have
made such proposition. He woud,ot appeal
to the Senator from Mississippi 10 whjraw it.
but he would appeal to his soulhernricnds 10
reject it.
Mr.. Davis finally consented to wit draw his
amendment, and,
Mr.. Fitzgerald made flew remark expana.
tory of the reasons which would indue him 10
vote for the bill. He didso TO settlelhe ques.
tion. though he had little ope that s1ch would
be the result He had voed for the substitute
for the amendment Of the territorial committee,
bu, he must confess that hehad regrel,ed it af:
ter the proposition made h. the Senator from
Mississippi, and he regrelledhat he had with
drawn that proposition.
The vote was then taken othe passage Of
the bill, as amended, and it waHecied in the
affirmative 33 to 22, as follows.
Yeas-Messrs. Atchinson, Baosr, Bell, Ben.
ton, Berrien, Borland, Brcese, Light. Butler,
Cameron. Davis, of Mississippi, Dickinson,
Douglass, Downs, Fitzgerald, Foo'dIannegan,
Houston, Hunter, johnson, of Md.Johnson Of
Louisiana, King, Lewis, Mangum. 'iason, Met
colfe. Pearce, Sebastian, Spruans Sturgeon,
Turney, Underwood-33
Nays-Messrs. Alien, Alberto. Baldwin,
Bradbury, Calhoun, Clarke. Corwl. Davis. OF
Massachusetts, Dayton, Dix, Ddge, Felch,
Greene, Hamlin, Hale, Miller Mes, Phelps,
Upham, Walker, Webster, Westco-22.
And then the Senate, at quartr past ten
o'clock adjourned.
HOUSE OF Representatives.
NIGHT SESSION.
The House completed the consideration o
the ame ndments of the Senate to te general
appropriation bill, and concurred in altogether
by about thirty of the ninety nine. commit
tee of conference will of course, benecessay
unless the Senate reccde, which is OF proba
BILE.
The bill from the Senate, grantig to the
State Of Alabama, alternate sections othe pub
lie lands for the Florida and Alabama nil road
was taken up, and after consiterabledebate
without action, the House, al nearly hlf pas
10, adjourned.
SENATE, SATURDAY N1GnT. Angus 12.
The Senate was in session all night.
Various motions were made Immediately af
ter the recess, to get up the report of the Com
mtee of Conference, on the disagrecins votes
Of the two Houses on the army appropriation
bill, and tor that purpose to postpone the consid
Grafton of the ORGY territorial bill, vhicl
the presiding officer (alr. NIes) had declare,
to be frs, in order. From this decision of tn,
chair Mr.. Yulee finally appealed and the deci
sion was reversed, 16 to 39 The report o
the committee Of conference was according 81
taken up, and after debate was finally concurret
in.
The consideration of the Oregon bill wa
then resumcd-Mr. Johnson. OF Ca, havin!
the aoor-bu, he gave way to Mr.. Webster
who desi red to make few remarks before th
question was taken on the motion Of the Sena
nents.
Mir. Webster was inclined to say hut litllt
further on the question, or prolract the debale
The House had sent them bill, giving 60
vernment to Oregon, to no part Of which lht
Senate had objected. But the Senate had pro
posed an amendment, the succeeding portion o
which was the ordinance Of 1897, so tha, thu
amendment really had nothing whatever to d,
with Orcgon-no hearing whatever upon Ore
gon. 1t says the line of 36 30 shall be the
line TO the Pacific, and then it goes on to SAY
that the ordinance of 1887 shall be in force
in Oregon. This amendment has beer
attached by strong majority of The Senate
snmc 10 or l2-to which he did not object
they had right to do so. But he had votee
against the amendment. and he preferred the
easiest method to get rid of it, by receding from
the amendment. If others preferred commit
tee of conference that was all right also. 81
much for The parliamentary question.
And now, in regard to the question at issue
He was glad tha, it had been proposed to rrf.
the question to the great judicial tribunal of the
country. rs well as the tribunal of the people
But he desired 10 say a word on the particular
description of slavery mentioned in the ordi
nance OF l797-t was not the description o
slavery existing in Hungary. &C., but descrp
lion of slavery transferable from hand to hand
Slavery has existed in the several countries o
Europe, but he had never known that any sla
very, thus transferable, had existed any where
hut IN American States and Colonies, and per
haps in some Of the West India Islands.
This institution in America stands upon the
constitution, ad"pted in 1899, at the time Of the
adoption of which it had been desired that sa
very should not exist northwest of the Ohio
When this constitution was adopted, no person
looked to such thing as the acquisition OF ter
ritory out OF which to form new States. The
territory west Of the Ohio was lookcd upon n,
intended to he free, and nasmuch as SLAYER,
was limited, by these two considerations, it wa
agreed that it should continue where it did ther
exist, it was matter of State regulation. ove
which Congress had no control whatever.-
Therefore, these agi,alions, in regard to slave
ry, he considered entirely ont of Dlnce Tho,