The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-16

implied extension of the ord nance of I7s1 with some
erhueh IN l'9V, formed constitution in 1896 without be-
ing specially authorized for that purpose aud admit
Ell INTO the Union by act OF Congress the year and
though there Is preamble the bl it makes no men,
non OF ne constitution as being necessary condition.
The ate that claims attention is Ohio la this
case the usual course adopted OF establishing Terrific
| rial government, and authorizing convention form
against the position assumed by the majority of
mlttee that Congress has power admit State until
she has formed constitution for the act authorizing the
convention was, In fact, the admission (or the consent
given OF the United States which the hng) the
new State la proof Of this he would refer subsequent
section in The same act liking in the VI Kentucky,
The representation OF the new State in Congress- and,
SIN more conclusive proof Of the position the subsequent
act OF Congress extending the laws of the United States
H. Ia the preamble OF which, after setting out The former
these explicit aud conclusive words Whereby the
Sad sate mas become one Of the United States Of America
he ACT Itself contains no further admission OF the State
must have been considered admitted by the first
before their Organization is complete, OF the ex-
pedlency OF admitting the Union, early day,
the case Of Loaana p"rehasd from France e nuns IN 1888
This territory delivered the United States the 10th
which acquired the admission into tho Union
OF States formed out OF IT, were similar to those in the
acquired On the 9th OF March, 1905 lille year
after the United States had taken possession
soon as the should amount to sixty thousand
"authorized to form for themselves constitution and
the footing OF the original States" In 1871 another
passed Authorizing the people of the Territory form
tanned this provision And the shall dis
approved by Congress at their session. alter the
the Union upon the same footing with the original
States" The constitution formed in accordance with
this act was afterwards approved by Congress- and the
State admitted but it is evident, hi, had not been done
IF ss aw o a as as by the
pletey and finally in the Union this made her and
apd ha "o Iee from ey q
ing admitted into the Union, the OF Congress
before constitution had been formed The undersigned
will not proceed further in the examination of particular
cedents enough have been shown the position
assumed But he would respectfully submit, tina, where,
gene raj one. confined and restricted by no paricular
Circumstances, and where in the nearly sixty
years, in the different which been
acted on by Congress- uniform rule mode Of proceed
has been adopted, but every has been taken up
and decided on IL own merits that preceden,s
aohing, except 10 show that the power is full and
onaIy and ,hi the question always presented is of
exped,ency, and not OF constitutional Indeed, the
majority Of the committee seem at last to have arrived
eny pointed different way, yet their first resolution
ported on the bill Is not thar Is unconstituona but that
il is ''inex pedient"
As the bill does not propose to create State but
merely 10 admit into tae Union, State, the people
times IN history the undersigned per-
the application AMI force OF that of the majority
author of the bill nor the writer of this, intended
nsnuate that Congress could create constitution for Cali
fornia State there without the action of the people
If tho majority OF the committee had taken the ground
that State into the actual exercise Of all her
had formed State constitution, he should have agreed
with them; for as the new State cannot elect and
functions contemplated by the constitution of United
States, until there provided legislature and other
State organization, il is implied condition the adu
sion of all States which have not formed constitution
that shall be done before upon the full of
its rights But this does prevent her from being
considered State, and admitted into the Unon the
Of cons,es, given for that e s
be the case with California, il admitted She could
not into the Union fully until she consented to it,
| government,
sooner or later but that does not that Congress
the Union the Sd Of March, 1886 and yet
I'll long after that time that she represented in the
House of Representatives and the Senate until the
AS the substitute which the undersigned will report
the bill will require any division the State
is material notice that part the report which de-
MES no doubt justly the of Congress to divide State
This much he has deemed proper say the question
ofpower. lie will proceed give reasons, in
addition to those already stated in the first of this
majority of the committee urges. he believes as The Only
ground of except that OF the extent
whchis obvaied by the substitute proposed that the
try is sparscly populated and Inhabited by people. the
greater portion Of whom strangers constitution
and laws and IN the Judgment OF the committee, niiNed
in tbei! present condition. to be incorporated into this
Union That by the treaty they TO be admitted
States sat the proper tme to be Sed of by Congress
and that COY course OF territorial pupage they should
become acquainted with our laws and convesant with the
No doubt these objections would have been perfectly
good, but for the great that have recently place
IN California and which assuredy viii take place within
the next lew months SO rapid has been, and will be for
some immigration country, that 1t
is impossible to estimate it with any reasonable acca,
racy. But everything around proves that it will be
immense. There can be doubt that before your law
could reach that country, and State government be
organized, there would be an American population
there consisting Of more men, intelligent, enerprising,
and educated, (and "these constitute State') than
there ever was in any State when first admitted
Why, then, should they be
ton and govern themselves But it may be urged tina,
many OF these there temporarily, and Will
The undersigned does think any siderable
tent He knows little OF American character who holds
such an opinion They never retreat either in battle or in
immigration 1t Is difficult to say in which they excel
but IN neither do they recede. Show the spot
habed by Americans that abandoned depop
viers and others that first inhabited the great west
longer there but has Kentucky, Tennessee Ohio other
parts OF 1t settl,d in like manner become less popuous
No; will California. II the gold should be exhausted
they would soon find other md of wealth
happiness and prosperity perhaps better than gold The
only ground OF nexPediency, then, fails altogether, and
why should not opposition bill that ground
/ The undersigned will bestow but few words on the
provisions OF the bill submitted amendment or sub
stute for the one referred to the committee The bound
Is fixed so as to include the whole of the valley west OF
the Sierra Nevada mountains drained by the rivers
which, running from the morrill, and the other from the
south, unite the magnificent bay OF San Francisco and
other territory between the said mountains, where they
terminate in the south, and on the Pacific ocean.
The length oil this proposed State about $50 miles, is
average breadth about l75 miles, and its may DO est-
mated 49, $50 square miles, 81 900 acres We thus
have State OF noble proportions to bear, perhaps, the
proud appelaon of the empire State unsurpass-
ed in climate, and in mineral wealth, and destined at
future day rival her eastern empire sister IN
banded and active commercial enterprise, with all the in
ernal which contribute to the happiness Of
| man.
| 1t is almost twice the of Louisiana, THAI
third larger Missouri more than twice the
Kentucky more than third larger than Virginia,
the size OF New York. aud Yearly one-hrd larger
aggregate ofsx ofte New England States Name,
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