New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-04

a substitute for the first three sections Of the
bill:
"Be n ,raeted Fbst as soon "a California sas have
pafsed ia Convention ordinance providing that she re-
nquhes all lite claim to tax dispose o. or IN s1y ~ay
TO interfere win the primary disposal by n1 Cn.q SO
OF The public domain within her limits mat she wiz DOT ~
lerpose authority and powerso a. 70 dslr 1L mRele
any ni-ol which he United States may d-e' >1ysaoeo
exercise over sueh districts 10 he mil ug rf1s ehhsr
low discovered % be ciecOyered hefcar as may DC
inc udf IA any Law ll g'alt made TO prgae Individuals ~
10 Corporations pror to he cessian o. CaoTna 10 ne
United States, that The lands " The uOnf5sden sna never
be taxed higher thsn those Of resde0tai the navigae
waters shall be open and free citizens Of the United
States those Of California included and hat her souIn9n
limits shall be restricted TO The missouri compromise lno
$50 so NOrh lat and she shall have produced 10
The President Of the United States satisfactory and aueo-
tic evidence that the set forth above have been fay
and exactly compiled with the President Of the United
States be and s hereby authorized and reqeaed w6o1i
any further scon The OF Congress oissue his Proc
lsmaiion declaring that California II AID sue sha Do ae
nued ino the Union equal footing with the orsi-
nal States in all respects whatever ..
SIC BE II enacted Isai such poruon OF las erenue
collected 10 the ports Of California as may rsmhu uneA-
pended the time Of he isu0g Of the fresioens proca
nation as Aforesaid, snail be psd over 70 The sud slate OF
SEC s. Be it enacted that the Senator'S aud Representa-
ves ell ced now before Congress from the said State OF
California sha be entitled TO receive and shall receive the
miesge and the per diem pay allowed TO the delegates
from The Territory Of Oregon from the day that the mes
fsRe of the Presto ent transmitting Consolation Of Cali
fornia was received by Congress -.-.,.
S6o so Of north latitude, and the boundary ine between
Mexico and The United states established by the TreaJ OF
Gusdslspe Hdalgo and extending from Pacific the
Sierra Msdre shall continue Territory under The name OF
ihe Territory OF South Csroins" and shall be organizsi
"a such under The prOyision of the bill applying The Ter
TitoTy OF Ush changing names where they ought 10 be
changed in all respects whatsoever and SHALL when ready
able and willing 10 become state and desiring be such,
be sdmined into the Union with or without Slavery as The
people therein may desire and make known tnough hsf
constituents.
Mr.. CLAY expressed his qualification at this man
Hesitation Of disposition the part OF those who
opposed the bill to present their contra project, IN
stead Of obiecting, and saying that because they
are IN the minority they will make no proposition.
The VICE. PRESIDENT stated the question upon
Mr.. Chases amendment amending Mr.. Davlss lot
Miss amendment, permitting The Territorial Leg
lsatures to pass laws protecting property OF every
kind which now exists, or may hereafter be intro
dDced in the Territories confoFmsbly with the Con-
stitution and laws ofthe United States 50 to de-
clare that said amendment shall not be construed
80 as TO imply that Slavery exists, or be intro.
duced in said Territories by the said Constitution
and laws.
Mr.. DOUGLAS opposed both the amendments up
on the ground that they violated the principle of
non-intervenioD, declared in the Nicholson letter:
if either of these amendments were adopted, he did
not see how those who had heretofore assumed
the position stated in that letter could vote for the
bill.
Mr.. DowNs said that if the Interpretation of the
Nicholson letter given by Mr.. Douglas was the
true one, it took away the whole ground upon
which the South supported it. The amendment
submitted by Mr. Chase was in effect the Wilmot
Proviso.
Mr.. CHASE defended his amendment 1t was not
the Wimet Proviso, as had been stated by several
Senators, but really an explanation Of Mr. Daviss
amendment, designed to render its terms definite,
and not liable to diversity of Interpretation, accord
ing 10 the section in which interpreted
Mr.. DAVIS said his amendment was not destined
to carry any implication to what species of prop
ertyi there very little difference between de-
Gliding the rights OF property, and protecting them
when they exist
In renlv Mr. Dot.ct As aaid that the diHerance
between that Senator and himself was, simply, as
to who were the people. The Senator applied the
term to the inhabitants of the Territories while he
MR. Davis applied 1t 70 those Inhabitants only, al
ter sovereignty had been given them by Congress.
MIR. DOUGLAS, in concluding few words in re-
ply, declared that if the question Of Slavery was
touched In any way, manner or shape In the bill, 1t
could not pass the Senate.
After some further debate by Mr.. Walker and
Jefferson Davis
Mr.. BUTLER defended the amendment submitted
by the latter neither you nor the Senator prOpO-
sing it, declared that Slavery exists in the Terrific
ries or shall 60 there the Senator never said it
should 60 there he did contend, however, and pro
pose by his amendment, that if Slavery should go
to the Territories, If it should prove already 10
exist there, the slave owner may be protected in
bis right to try the validity of his title TO that pro-
perty under the Constitution and laws. Mr. Butler |
said he designed, at future time, to express his
views generally upon the Bill, when he would take |
occasion to say candidly, xpcitly, and distinctly
what be thought would satisfy him as a represen-
tative OF one of the Southern States.
Mr. KING expressed himself opposed to Mr. Da
Wis amendment, because it would embarrass the
Bill. In reply 10 Mr.. Douglass, he denounced that
Senator's remarks as Free Soil Wilmot Proviso
speech, SO far as the argument went because it
that Congress had all power over the
subject OF Slavery.
Mr., DOUGLAS responded with considerable
Mr.. WEBSTER thought the amendment was of
very little moment or effect in any way. If he un-
derst0od the object OF its mover that object could
be readily obtained by another mode. He under.
stood that the amendment had its foundation in
nothing but disposition to prevent the Legisla-
lures OF the Territories from passing any law per-
petually excluding Slavery therefrom. He saw an
amendment the other day in the hands Of the Sen.
ato r from Indiana, which would meet that object
lhe bil declared that those Legislatures shall pass
10 law respecting Slavery. The amendment to
v hich he referred, declared that the Territorial
Legislature shall have no authority to pass laws
establishing or excluding Slavery. This was GER
-ainly municipal question, and there could be no
mpropriety In adopting such an amendment as he
had suggested, although he must say that in his
opinion, tins whole class of amendments we're un-
necessary considering the actual state OF things in
the country to which they Were TO be applied.
Mr. HALE was unwilling even by silence to ad-
NIT that the question before the Senate was of
practical Indifference. We had grown up from
thirteen to thirty States, and the experience OF the
past was that in every instance In which new
states had been admitted into the Union without
an express prohibition OF Slavery, no matter what
her latitude or longitude, Slavery had gone into
and been irrevocably established in those States
On this subject he wanted no other guide than the
light of the past. This question, then, was one Of
'reat practical importsnce--a question Of the es
adjustment or exclusion OF Slavery. No question
lad ever been agiiaod in Congress, since the Dec
araton OF Independence, involving important
md lasting consequences as that now pending, and
was libel upon the intelligence Of the free
states to tell them that il was question of indif.
erence.
Mr. WEBSTER said it was, ia his opinion no
question at all OF Slavery or no Slavery. IL was
lnown TO be his opinion that there was no reason.