Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-02-15
Congressional PrOceedingS%Mr Ste'
phcnS Northumberland, &c.

plCllS KeS0lUlI 0Il""Pr0i0C0i, &c.
In the Honse of Representatives, Monday,
February 9th, an interesting debate arose on a
motion of Mr.. Stephens of Georgia to suspend
the rules for the Introduction of the following
resolution:
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be requested to furnish this House with
a correct copy of the original treaty of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, entered into on the I'd day of Feb,
ruarv, 1913, by Nicholas p Trst on the part of
the United States, and Luis G. Cueyas, Barnado
Cont, and Miguel Artristrian, on the part of the
Republic of Mexico and particularly those ar
ticles in said original treaty which were stricken
out or amended by the Senate of the United
States
Resolved further, That the President be re-
quested to inform this House whether there is
any evidence in the Department Of State Of an
agreement and assurance made by our commits
sioners with the Mexican Government, before
the ratification by said Government of said a.
mendments, substantially in the following words,
to wit:
"PROTOCOL
OF the conference previous to the ratification and
change of the treaty of peace between Ambrose
Ministers Plenipotentiary on the part of the u.
nited States of America, and Don Luis de la
| Rosa, Minister of Foreign and internal Affairs
of the Mexican Republic.
"In the city of Queretaro, on the Goth of the
month Of Nav, 1913, at conference between
their Excelencics Nathan Clifford and Ambrose
II. Sewer, Commissioners of the United States
of America, with full powers from their Govern
ment to make to the Mexican Republic suitable
explanations in regard to the amendments which
the Senate and Government of the said United
States have made in the treaty of peace, frienl-
ship, limits and definitive settlement between
the two Republics, signed in the city of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, on the I'd day of February of the
present year, and his Exccllency Don Luis de Ia
Rosa, Minister. Of Foreign Affairs Of the Re.
public of Mexico, it was agreed, after adequate
conversation respecting the changes alluded to
to record III the present protocol the following
explanations, which their aforesaid Excellencies
the Commissioners gave in the name of theil
Government, and in ful4illment of the commits
sion conferred upon them near the Mexican Re
public;
,reseine the ninth nrticle Of the treaty of Quad
alupe, and substituting the third article of the
treaty of Louisiana. did not intend to diminish
in any way what was agreed upon by the a
foresad article ninth IN favor of the inhabitant
of the territories coded by Mexico. It's under
, standing is, that all of that agreement is con
tanned in the third article of the treaty of Lou
+, isiana. In consequence all the privileges anC
guarantees, civil, political, and religious which
would have been possessed by the inhabitant
OF the coded territories, if the ninth article o
the treaty had been retained, and will be enjoy
ed by them, without any difference, under thu
article which has been substituted.
, sgd The American Government, by sun
/, pressing the tenth article of the treaty of Quad
alupe, did not, in any way, intend to annul tn
grants of lands made by Mexico in the cede,
territories These grants, Notwithstanding tn
suppression Of this article of the treaty, preserv
. the legal value wach they may possess, and tn
grantees may cause their legitimate titles to b
acknowledged before the American tribunals.
"Conformably to the law of the United States
legitimate titles to every description of property
personal and real, existing in the ceded terrific
: riea are those which were legitimate titles unde
- the Mexican law in California and New Mex
q co, up to the 18th Of May, 1916, end in Texa
/ up to the I'd of March, 1886
"3d, The Government of the United States
=, by suppressing the concluding paragraph of al
ticle twelfth of the treaty, did not intend to de
# prye the Mexican Republic of the free and ur
restrained faculty Of ceding, conveying, or tran:
O ferring at any time las it may Judge BEST til
T.. sum of twelve millions of dollars, which tn
same Government of the United States is to dc
# liver in the places designated by the amende
i article.
n "And these explanations having been accer
:, ted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of til
= Mexican Republic, he declared in the name
his Government that with the understandn
conveyed by them, the same Government woul
n proceed to ratify the treaty of Guadalupe, Il
/. modified by the Senate and Government of tn
United States. In testimony of which, the
Exceences, the aforesaid Commissioners, an
). the Minister, have signed and sealed, in quintr
g, plicate, the present protocol.