Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-08-02
pR0CEEpINCg OF CONGREss,


Mr.. RUsK's amendment provides that the State
OF Texas is entitled to all rights which she
possessed 10 the territory east Of the Rio Grande
at the day of the ratification of the treaty of
| Guadaloupe Hidalgo and since.
A discussion followed, in which Mr.. Clay,
Mr.. Rusk, Dir. Pratt, AIR. Hale, Mr. Seward,
MI, Dayton, Mr. Houston and Mr.. Mason, took
part.
Mr.. RusKs amendment was then rejected
yeas IL, nays 30.
Nr. MASON moved a substitute fo- Mr.. Brad
bury's amendment, which was relected-yeas
20, nays %.
Mr.. CLAY offered an amendment reservng
the rights of both parties in case the report Of
the commission should not be adopted
MIR. BUTLER opposed it.
MIR. SEWARD offered an amendment for the
admission of New Mexico as u State us soon as
her constitution is presented, and spoke at
length in its support.
Dir. PRATT opposed it, and insisted that the
Senator from New York had avowed doctrines
here, for which he ought to be turned out
Mr. PRATT asked the yeas and nays, and
they were ordered.
MIR. DAYTON requested the Senator from
New York TO withdraw his amendment.
Dir. CLAY objected.
Mr.. SEWARD said he would vote for the pro.
position if he stood alone. He proceeded to
vindicate it. If he was expelled, he should
still assert that there was a law higher than
human spotlsm-justce was above law. He
read the declaration of rights Of the State of
New Mexico, and stated that the Senator from
Maryland could not succeed in his opposition
TO those principles
Mr.. PRATT said if the Senator imputed to
him opposition TO those principles, he was bound
to say that he had undertaken to say what was
not true.
The Chair-Order.
Mr. DAYTON opposed the amendment
Mr.. HALE said if Senators were 10 be ex-
PEELED for maintaining that there is a King of
Kings and Lord of Lords before whom eyes
stubborn Republics must bead-that there was
n law above human government-he must also
be expelled. If it was a crime ha would
plead guilty TO it. He would not put the Sen
ate to the trouble to prove it. 1t was adverse
TO the constitution, 10 law, TO Divine ProYi-
Gence.
Mr.. PRATT said that it was easy to utter
state of facts. I, said he have higher respect
for the Most High, than those who daily desc
crate his name here
Mr.. HALE-Order.
MIR. BuTLER-Take down the words.
MIR. HALE submitted the words in writing.
They accused him (Mr. Hale) Of desecraling
the name Of the Almighty here
Mr.. PRATT.-No--I said so frequently
desecrated here"
The CHAIR said he had so understood il, or
he should have arrested the remarks
Dir. PRATT proceeded. If he made the
motion TO expel the Senator from New York,
lie would include the Senator from New
Hampshire with pleasure; il he held the
ground that the Constitution was not to be re-
garded 80 far as it protected slavery.
Mr.. HALE denied that he ever uttered such
a doctrine or opinion.
Mr.. PRATr reverted TO his original allega-
ton, that the Senator from New York had ap-
peaIed TO Jaw higher than the Constitution
not TO Divine wisdom in harmony with the
Constitution. In the Divine power he (Mr.
Pratt) was an humble believer.
Br. BALDwIE read nnd explained Mr.. SEW
ARDS "higher iqlo" speech, showing that it
had been, as he thought, miaconstrued. He
slso opposed the amendment OF the Senator
from New York
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS was not prepared for
this theological disquisition, He moved an
adjournment.
Mr.. CLAY called the yeas and nays. The
motion TO adjourn was rejected, yeas %, nays
%.
Mr.. CHASE said it was better TO act than
threaten. If gentlemen chose, he wished they
would move the expulsion of those who main
tanned the doctrine referred to and just read
Mr. FooTE said he would crafty the Sena.
tor, and mako the motion. II he would put
the odious principle in distinct language, that
Senators were bound to resist the constitution,
he would move his expulsion. Now, the prin-
cip!e was disavowed, and ingeniously sought
to be explained away, though it was certainly
understood by every one, to have been asserted
here IN the first speech Of MIR. Seward.
Mr. SEwARD's amendment was rejected
yea, Mr.. Seward nays 42.
In the House, the SPEAKER announced that
the first business in order was the bill reported
from the Committee OH Agriculture, to eli
courage agriculture by donating to each head
Of family in the u. States l60 acres of land.
on condition of their residing thereon and cul-
tlvating the same; and that the gentleman
from Mississippi (Mr. BRowN) had the floor.
Mr.. BRowN rose and expressed his approba-
ton of the bill. His judgement, he said, ap-
proved of the policy of supplying every citizen
oil thus country with a home. Mr.. B. gave
notice Of his intention to offer resolution for
the bill
Mr.. STANTON of Tenn, moved the previous
question on the motion to refer the bill to the
Committee of the Whole; it was seconded,
and the proposition was carried in the affirma-
tive.
Mr.. NoRsE moved TO reconsider the vote
with a view 10 make some remarks He de-
nounced the measure as monstrous system of
corruption Cor the purpose of lending the power
of this government to make voters-they in
turn To support the Government lie con-
demnsd the thing 4 disgusting system of
demagogusism, to which even distinguished
Senators were lending themselves.
This was not so in the better days of the
Republic. He held it to be a rascaliy. goug-
ing system, that should be spurned by every
friend to honest industry. The price OF land
was low enough and if a man could not by his
labor acquire sufficient to buy himself home
at such low price, he did not deserve home.
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