Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-08-15
THE DAILY TIMES.
ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA.

| In the Senate, on Saturday, Mr.. DOUGLAS moved
and the Senate proceeded the consideration of tie bill
for the admission of California as State into the Uni
The custom pending the proposed substitute
for the bill submitted by MIR. Yuee being to change
the existing government of California into provisional
| territorial government.
| Mr.. YuLEE resumed the remarks which he had ii
part concluded on Thursday last and continued then
| for one hour and half
| The question was then taken on the substitute, anc
| it was reiected-yeas II, nays 35, as follows.
| YEAs-Messrs. Atchison, Berrien, Clemens Davis
of Miss, Dawson Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Sc
bast ian, Turney, and Yulee--l2.
NAys-Messrs. Badger, Baldwin. Bell Benton,
Bradbury, Bright Cass, Chase, Clarke, Cooper, Davis
OF Mass, Dickinson, Dodge Of Wis, Dol of Iowa
Douglas, Ewing, Fech, Foote, Greene, HE, Hamin
Norris Pearce, Phelps, Seward, Shields, Smith Spru-
anee, Sturgeon, Underwood Upham, Wales, Walker,
| Whitcomb, and Winthrop-35.
MIR. FooTE moved to amend the bill by adding there
to-:
| That the following donations and provisions TOR the
benefit OF the State of California be, and the here
by are, made upon the conditions hereinafter stated
| !. The grants are follows: section in each
quarter township of the public lands, for the Of
schools
2. Seventy-two sections of the unapproprated lands
within the State to be set apart and reserved for the
and support of university.
g. -Four sections OF land to be selected by the egisla-
ture from the Incorporated public lands for the use of
| tray the expenses OF public buildings at the same.
| 4. $4,000 acres OF the public lands, in addition to the
50U 600 granted to all new States for the purpose of de-
trayng the expenses of the State government and for
other State purposes, and five per centm of the nett
proceeds OF the sale of all lands in the State sold by the
United States to be appropriated for the encouragement
of learning.
s. All salt springs within the State, and the lands re-
served Tor the use OF the same least section to
be used or disposed Of as the legislature may direct
And the foregoing grants are made upon the express
shall, within twelve months after the passage of this
act, in such manner mode shall be binding upon
Them limit and restrict the southern boundary Of that
Estate to the line fthrtysx degrees aad thirty minutes
ofnorth latitude at early day as practicable and
that thereupon territorial government shall be- and the
same hereby is, established in and for the residue of
California as created by this act. south of the said line
OF thry-six degrees and thirty minutes of north at-
tude similar in all respects to the territorial govern
men provided Tor the Territory OF Utah. the only DIFF
terence being in the boundaries of the two Territories
aud u Their names wheresoeyer they occur and up
on this condition being complied with on the part of
the pe We OF California, the President of the United
ii will appoint the necessary officers Of the same
5er and description with corresponding compensa-
and in The manner as those for the Territory
rof Utah. and he take all necessary measures to put
the government of said Territory into operation without
delay, whereupon athe grants, provisions and slpu-
ations made by this section shall accrue to the peope
and government Of the said State of California propi-
Ided, That nothing herein contained shall be so con-
srued as to prevent the Senators and Representatives
elect from the State of California from occupying i'm
medatey after the adoption of this act, their seats in
the two Houses Of Congress respectively And provided
further, That when such alteration of the boundaries
OF California as is herein proposed shall have taken
place. the Territory of Colorado which is by this act
established, will be recognised as being in all respects
in the same plight and condition if the Constitution
j OF California had never been extended over any part
1 thereof.
Mr.. FoorE briefly supported his amendment and w as
followed by Mr.. ATcHIsoN the same side.
Mr.. DAVIS, OF Mississippi, moved and the proviso re-
ang to the Senators and Representatives of California
| was stricken out.
t. And the question being taken on the amendment OF
'Elr. Foote it rejeced-yeas l3, nays 80, fol-
1 lows:
YEAs--Messrs. Atchison, Bell, Berren, Davis OF
Mississippi, Dawson, Foote, Hunter, King Mason, Nor
| ton, Sebastian, Soule and Turney-l3.
j NAYs-Messrs Baldwin, Benton. Bradbury, Bright
Chase, Clarke, Cooper Davis OF Massachusetts Dick
inson, Dodge OF Wisconsin, Dodge Of Iowa, Douglas
bEwing. Felch, Greene Hamn, Norris, Pearce Phelps
4 Seward Shields Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Under
wood, Upham, Wales, Walker and Wnthrop-29.
\ Mr.TURNEY moved to amend the bill as follows
i Strike out the first section of the bill and insert the
u following:
Beat enacted By the Senate and House of Represen
tatiUes Of The United States Of america in Congress
assembled That soon California shall have passed
Il in convention az ordinance providing
Thai she reliaqashes 'sclaim to tax, dispose, of
or ia any way to b{g ithe primary disposal by
the United StatessAg sGUic domain within her Ii
mitsi
That che will not interposeh er authority and power
so to obst-uct irpede any control which the Uni
ted States may deem advisable to exercise over such
districts in the mining regions (ether discovered,
to be discovered hereaer) may not be included il
any lawful grant made to private individuals or to
poratons prior to the cesson of California to the Uni
! ted States;
That the lands of the residents shall never b.
4 taxed higher than those of residents
That the navgabe waters shall be open and free &c
all citizens Of the United States those of California in
cluded;
That her southern limits shall be restricted to the
Missouri compromise line, (36 deg 30 min OF north la
titude;>
And soon as she shall have produced to the Pre-
sdent of the United States satisfactory and authentic
evidence that the above set forth have been fully
and exactly complied with, the President OF the Unec
States be and he is hereby authorized and requested
without any further action the part OF Congress, to
issue his proclamation declaring that California is ano
shall thereupon be, admitted into the Union upon an
equal footing with the original States in all respects
| whatsoever"
Mr. SouLE proceeded to address the Senate in supper
of the amendment, but yielded to
Mr.. BUTLER, who moved, and the bill was postponed
till Monday.
| In the Senate, on Monday, the question pending be
ing on the amendment submitted on Saturday BY Mr.
Turney-
| Mr.. SoULE supported the amendment maintaining
the four following points: that the authority the
eminent and useful domain was attribute of So
vereigny; and that passes to that power exercising
sovereignty, unless retained by express provision in the
act comforting the sovereign that this BILL as now
Stood placed the public lands beyond the control OF
Congress, and left the General Government as regards
the public lands, at the mercy Of the new State The
section in the bill relating future REIMBURSEMENT OF
all claim to the public lands of no effect and nva-
lid for until the State is admitted, she is no party to the
compact, and may repudiae all that is contained that
part OF the bill.
That in no instance has new State been admitted
without Congress first retaining, by express act the
public domain. He urged and repeated the arguments
which he had made ON a former OCCASION when his
subs itue for the part OF the Compromise Bill relating
to California under consideration, that unless Con-
gress by prior to the admission OF California,
required REIMBURSEMENT by California OF the public
land all title of the Government to those lands would
cease upon the act making California sovereign State
He opposed the admission OF California with her pre-
sent boundaries under the present circumstances He
referred to the amendment originally proposed by Mr.
Douglas but part Of the bill, as wholly made
quate the protection of the rights of the General Co.
vernment in the public lands He urged the adoption OF
his amendment and appealed to the advocates of the
admission Of California pause before they violently
forced California into the Union against the constitution
| al objections of large section of the country.
Mr. DOUGLAS replied repeating that he considered it
wholly unnecessary, for the protection OF the rights of
the United States to the public domain, that any con