The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-30

make speech himself make your motion'1 He
did not desire any debate this question: and he hoped
debate would upon it. In order 10 test the sense
OF members OF the House. he would move to lay the bill
on The table, and then comply with his promise to the
| call of the House
| lGreat excitement and confusionl
MT bAfLY asked the gentleman from Indiana TO
parts of the House There had been unfair remarks
made against this bill Loud cries of "order !"l
Mr. BAfLi greatly excited appealed to the the gentle
man from Indiana. [Renewed cries OF ''order"1
| Mr.. McLANE rose TO point of order.
The SPEAKER said the Chair would receive no sug-
gestion OF order until the House came TO order itself,
| and gentlemen took their seats.
! Order having been partially restored
Mr. McLANE stated his point OF order TO be, that 1t
was not competent for the gentleman from Indiana to
submit two motions at once-the motion to lay ON the
table, and the motion for call OF the House
The SPEAKER sustained the point OF order
Mr.. SMITH then moved a call Of the House alone,
The call ordered and the roll having been called
through, 200 members answered to their names
Mr.. ASHMUN moved to dispense with further pro
ceedngs in the call Agreed to.
/ Mr.. ASHA1UN inquired of the Chair whether the
gentleman from Georgia Mr.. STEPHENs] had not moved
to lay this bill on the table,
The CHAIR replied that the gentleman had made such
notion supposing at the time that he was entitled to
the floor; but another gentleman having stated that he
had renquished the floor the motion of the gentle
from Georgia had of course been pronounced to be
Mr. STEPHENS now said he admitted that important
considerations involved in the bill But he did not
OelieVe tnat IL WOuu Sette tne OF
ton could be settled at the present session lie desired,
therefore, TO apply the readest to the question by
moving to lay the bill on the table.
The yeas and nays were demanded and ordered upon
this questions and being taken resutedyeas 49, nays
| 81, as follows, to witt
| YEAS-Messrs Abbott Adams, Ashmun, Be'cher,
Bingham, Blanchard, Boydon B1ckner, Butler Candy 3,
zer. Darling. Dckey Dixon, Donnell Duer. Daniel Dun
Fe Eef Fassdey s ns kS Go
Gregory, Grnnell, Hale Nathan X Hall Hammons James
heRey Msny Eas
kns ks9gg Daniel fling Lahm William Ia%s II M, Law
ssIsy %sa
Rs Mp Nelson Mes Gsws S Moo Psy peIa n,
Roswell Rock John A. Rockwell Rose Ramssy, S. John,
schenck Sheriff., Sylvester slingerand Smart Caleb B.
phens Stewart, Charles E. Stuart Strohm, Strong
rallmadge Taylor. James Thompson, Rich W ThomP,
Van Dyke, vinIon, Warren, Wentworth. White. Wiley,
IN NAYSmMessrs. Atkinson, Barringer Barrow, Bayy,
Boyd. Bfodhead William G. Brown. Charles Brown Al
r Clark, B. L. Clarke, clinsman Howell Cobb, William
son R. W. Cobb, Cooke, cris6ed, Daniel. Dickinson,
Fulton, Gayle Gently Gossin Green Willard P Hall.
HARRISON, harmanson Harris Hi, Hill Hisrd Isaac E.
Robert W Johnson, George v. Jones, John W Jones',
la%pHin MecIs%and f Mckay Mefane, s job
M ks. p
Thibodeaux, Thomas, Jacob thompson, Rob 4. Thomp,
Williams. and Woodward-97.
So the bill was laid on the table
Mr. POLLOCK moved to reconsider the vote just
Mr. WHITE moved to lay that motion on the table,
and demanded the yeas and nays; which ordered,
and being taken, the motion was agreed i2-yeas Ia,
nays &C.
OREGON
n, h, oT N Oh
resolved itself into Committee of the Whole the
of the Union, Mr. MoREHEAD in the chair
Mr.. VINTON under instructions from the Committee
of WAYS and Means moved that the committee take up
the army appropriation bill. In making this motion, he
stated that the Oregon bill not special order for
Fridays and Saturdays.
MI HALL of Missouri called for the reading of the
record by which the Oregon bill made special order
While the committee waited for the Clerk
Mr. ROCKWELL of Connecticut could inform the
gentleman from Missouri that Fridays and Saturdays
were specially excepted
The order then read and the committee refused to
The CHAIRMAN then stated the order to be the con-
sdeaton of the Oregon BILL upon which the gentleman
from Kentucky [Mr. ADAMs] was entitled to the floor
speech, mainly the question of slavery in the Terrific
ry, which he believed Congress had control, and
incidentally in reply to positions assumed by his col
Mr. COLLINS, gaining the floor next said: The re-
marks which he desired to submit would be confined to
the twelfth section OF the bill under consideration This
sixth section of the ordinance of 1857 provides that
the inhabitants of the territory of Oregon shall be entitled
to all the rights, privileges, and mmunes, and be sub
ect to all the restrictions and prohibitions to which the
people of the northwestern territory are entitled and sub
ect 1t provides also, that the existing laws of the pro-
visional government of Oregon shall remain in force in
that territory; and thus double security provided for
the exclusion of slavery. But, sir although the discus
sons of this bill have principally turned upon the twelfth
section, vet il is fact not to be disguised disegarded,
that the real contest relates to the acquisitions of
territory from Mexico-the provinces of New Mexico
and California Notwithstanding the show of opposition
made to the restrictions of slavery in Oregon the real
New Mexico and California. This them being generally
conceded, in the of his remarks Mr.. c. would
confne himself strictly to the question.
He supposed that Oregon had been employed in the
discussion the and for the purpose
that the application for admission into the Union by
Maine employed in 1920 AT that time the applica-
ton of Maine made of the elements OF the Mis-
souri, compromise; and he supposed that Oregon
be of the elements of the compromise 10 be effected
when the territories of New Mexico and California shall
be admitted into the Union.
The great question is, shall the existing laws of free
dom in these territories be abolished and slavery subs
tued' Disguise may attempt to do, this is the
ude 1t one consdeTedn every point Of view, of the
deepest and most earnest to the people of this
country, and, it might be said, to the whole civilized
world. 1t involves the temporal and eternal welfare of
millions OF human beings, to whom it is question of
misery or happiness 1t involves also the interests Of
the free white people of this entire country, well
the free white laborers of the southern, middle, and
northern States of this Union
| Our numerous immigrants from the Old World also
have interest in this question Two hundred and
fifty thousand of these yearly land the shores of the
United States, attracted by the fame OF the mode epub
l liz H. L-zot .t.zx,u II Ill.