Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-03-02
C0DgressS0nc
USURPATION OF POWER BY THE
PRESIDENT

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The cup Of Executive usurpation If no,yor
commencing with the unauthorized declara
ton OF war against Mexico by Mr.. Polk. and
already hlied to OVERLOOKING, runs over with ?
strange and important DEVELOPMENT inst made
at W ashlngton. Coming into power nv 2
! fraud upon the people, he will 90 out of offict
! covered with the ignominy of a still create,
fraud, Perpetrated upon the Constitution. on
country, and upon foreign people. II an
/ pears that the House of Con gress on Saturda
last. was startled by motion of the Hon. A.
II. Stephens, asking the unanimous consent
to Introduce the following important resolu-
ton. Mr. Houston, of Alabama. Locofoco.
OBJECTED to Its reception, and it was laid over:
$ Resofred, That the President of the Uni
ted States be requested to furnish this House
with correct copy of the original treaty. of
guadalupe Hldalgo, entered into on the 2nd
day of February, I84S. by y. p. Trist on the
part of the United States, and Luis G. Cuevas.
Barbado Cont and Miguel Atristam on the
part of the Republic of Mexico-and part;cu-
arly those articles in said original treaty which
were stricken out or amended by the Senate
of the United States.
8 ResoIced, further, That the President be
requested to inform the House whether there
IS any evidence in the Department of State, of
an agreement and assurance made bv our
commissioners with the Mexican Govern
ment before the ratification by said Govern
ment of said amendments, substantially in
the following words, viz:
PRorocoL,
Vi the conference previous to the ratification and
change ofthe Treaty Peace. between Ambrose
II. Sewer and Nathan Clifford, Commissioners
and Ministers Plenipotentiarv on the part of the
United States of America, and Don Luis De La
Rosa, Minister of Foreign and Internal Affairs
Of the Mexican Republic
In the city Of Queretara, on the 26th of the
month of May. 1913, at a conference between
their eXcellencies, Nathan Clifford and Am
brose II. Sewer, Commissioners of the United
States Of America, with full power from their
government to make the Mexican Republic
suitable explanations in regard to the amend
ments which the Senate and Government of
said United States have made In the treaty of
peace, friendship, limits and defnitive settle
ments, between the two Republics. signed in
the city Of Guadalupe Hidalgo on the Cd day
OF February Of the present year, and his ex-
ceIlency Don Luis de Ia Rosa, Minister of
Foreign Affairs Of the Republic of Mexico, it
was agreed, after adequate conversation re- |
speeding the changes alluded to, to record in /
the present protocol the following explanations !
which their aforesaid EXceilencies. the Com |
missioners, give in the name Of their govern |
ment and in fuiflment of the commission con- !
ferred upon them near the Mexican Republic |
lst. The American government, by sup
pressing the 9Th article of the treaty OF eau
daluPe, and substituting the Sd article of the
treaty Of Louisiana, did not intend to diminish
IN any way what was agreed upon by the
aforesaid article 9th, in favor of the inhabitants
Of the territories coded by Mexico It's un-
derstanding is that all of that agreement is |
contained in the Sd article of the treaty of
Louisiana. In consequence, all the privileges |
and guarantees, civil. political and religious, !
which would have been possessed by the in
habltants Of the ceded territories, in the 9th |
article OF the treaty had been retained. will be !
enjoyed by them, without any difference. IN
der the article which has been substituted.
ID. The American Government, by sup
pressing the 9th article Of the treaty of eau
dalupe, did not In any way intend to annul |
the grant of lands made By Mexico in the &C.
ded territories. These grants, notwithstand- !
ing the suppression of this article Of the treaty,
preserved the legal nature which they may
possess, and the granters may cause their le-
gltIma titles TO be n:Er0lCiedged before the |
American tribunals, conformably to the law of
the United States-leqitimate titles TO every
description of property, personal and real, ex-
listing in the ceded territories, and those which /
were legitimate titles under the Mexican law |
in California and New Mexico up to the 9Th |
Of HAY, 1916, and In Texas up to the I'd |
March, 1886.
Sd. The government of the United States. |
by suspending the concluding paragraph of
article 18th, of the treaty, did not intend to
deprive the Mexican Republic of the free and
unrestrained faculty Of ceding, conveying and |
transferring, at any time, (as 1t may judge /
best) the sum of So, 100000, which the same
government Of the United States is to deliver
in the place designated by the amended arti-
Gle.
And these explanations having been accept
cd by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Mexican Republic, he declared, In the name
Of his Government. that, with the understand
ing conveyed by them, the same government
would proceed to ratify the treaty of Gauda-
lupe, as ratified by the Senate and Government /
of the United States.
In testimony of which their excellencies,
the aforesaid Commissioners and Minister,
have signed and sealed in quinterplicate the /
present protocol.
[L.S.] [Signedl NATHAN CLIFFORD,
AMBROSE II. SEWER,
80 LUIS De LA Rosa.
s. End be II further ReSolUed, That If such |
paper be III the Department of State, the Pres
ident be requested to inform this House whe- /
Their said Commissioners or Pienlpote ntIarIes
were empowered to make said explanations
and give said guarantees, and by what au-
thoritv they were empowered, and whether
said nrotoc-l has been submitted to the con-
sideration of the Senate of the United States,
and been sanctioned by constitutional ma
jority of that body.
- ind be Il further ResoIred, That the Pres
ident inform this House whether hewas aware
of the existence of said Protocol at the time
of his proclamation of the final exchange OF