New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-03-05

Correspondence of The Tribune.
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madness was perpetrated-by the great Htes VI
the friends Of Free Soil 10 the House this even
ing, of which FEAR the consequences viii be en-
during. Let me explain it:
The House reassembled at o clock, and went
at once into Committee Of the Whole on the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriation blll, Mr.. STEPHENS
Of Geo. in the Chair. The bill had been gone
through by Sections and items and the forty or
fifty amendments Of the Senate adopted rejected
or amended down TO the last, proposing to estao-
lsh Territorial Government for the New Tern
tories West Of the Rio Grande, without any pro
vision against slavery. The Committee Of ways
and Means had reported a substitute Tor this sec
ton in substance authorizing the President 70
keep the peace and preserve order in those Terri
tories until the next Congress shall have time TO
provide Government for them, lvery nearly Mr..
Websters amendment submitted to and rejected
by the SenateJ The first question was on amend
ing the original proposition Of the Senate. and Mr..
WENTWORTH motion 70 fssten the Wilmot Pro
viso TO this had been voted down by o. 70 ia
bad beginning.
On reassembling the first proposition was made
b. Mr.. WESrwORTH-in substance, that the pro
vision Of the Ordnance Of = relative 10 the Ter
ritory North west Of the Ohio, be extended over
the New Territory. The Chairman ruled this out
Of order Appealed from, end the decision OF the
Chair sustained by s. to a. so this amendment
was ruled out. as in part inapplicsble to this Ter
ritory and in part rejected on the former vote.
Mr.. scHEscK Of Ohio moved the striking out OF
the words " West Of the Rio Grande' from the
senates amendment so as 10 make the act appll-
cable to all the Territory acquired from Mexico
whether East or West Of the Rio Grsnde. This
amendment was carrlcd-9l to -. 1t was the
first victory for the night on this measure and put
more cheerful face on affairs
Mr.. s LAWRENCE of n. Y. next moved farther
to amend the Senate proposition by providing
that nothing herein contained shall be construed as
extending the laws authorizing the cosstwise
Slave Trade to California, &c. carried Ayes 20
Noes 50. Good again
Mr.. HUNT OF n. y. next moved an amendment
also to the Senate Walker propositonD Provid-
log that the lars of Mcrico ab0iishing Slarery ~,
these Territories shall remain IN full force HHfR
repealed By Congress. Objected to. but ruled in
order. And this amendment was can1ed Ayes
% Noes 81.
No farther amendment being offered to the SEN
ates proposition, the vote was next taken on the
substitute Of the Committee of Ways and Means,
which was rejected without a division, latter
having been ruled unamendable
And now the question required on the Senate $
proposition as araended by The HoHse. 1t had been
so transformed by the House in Committee as to
be an entirely new matter-nO more the Senate :
project than Vermont Is South Carolina or Texas.
1t had been made as good measure as we could
desire, aiving the improperly OF lacking such
matter to the General Appropriation bill. What
we had now to do was to sustain this proposition
as amended, send it back to the Senate, and let
Messrs Dickinson of N. Y Fitzgerald OF Mich.
aud Walker Of Wise. defeat the bill and the or
eanization of the Territories because Of the House
insisting on the validity Of the Mexican laws
aboshlng Slavery until Congress shall repeal
them. We had now the Boundary Question as
respects New Mexico right-the Coastwse Slave
Trade rgbt-Slavery right-nearly everything
Just right And yet, when the Tellers stood up
aud those in favor Of the Senates proposition as
amended were called TO pass between them, only
six did so The great majority OF the Free State
Members did not perceive that the question had
been entirely changed by the unexpected shape
and success OF Mr. HUNTS amendment TO say
nothing of Messrs Schencks and 5. Lawrence 81
and they stood acoi in Difference to their original
resolution to vote down the Senates proposition.
so the Senates amendment as amended was
declaredlost, and the Committee rose and reported
the bill The preceding amendments were gone
through in successon-the Previous Question
having been moved aud carried-and now the
House found itself face to face with the Senate $
proposition, with all its own amendments thereto
cut off and destroyed by its ownfolly. and now It
could not revive these ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS make
no new ones-could do Just nothing but markedly
vote down the Senates proposition and so send
the bill back TO the Senate. This was done-less
100. NAYS ll4-and thus the last chance TO fasfen
an Ant. .Slarery restriction on the Ner Territories
at tLis Session ras throrn array BY a bluHder 81
! rs friends. The mistake was perceived by many
in a few moments after it had been made, but it
was too late. A mere detciencyof tact-of quick
ness of perception-oi concert-of leadenship-
| has lost us an immense advantage now, and may
lead to still more serious disasters in the future.
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