The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-13
CO GRE SS1oNAL.
In SENATE.

message Transmitting communication from the
Department Of the Interior, and the papers
which accompanied it being the first part of the
results of Investigations by HEsRY r. SCHOOL.
CRAFT, ESQ.,, under the provisions of an act OF
Congress, approved March 8, l847, requiring
the Secretary Of War ito collect and digest
such statistics and materials as may illustrate
the history, the present condition and future
| prospects of the Indian tribes of the United
States which was read, and the motion TO print
referred to the Committee on Printing.
PUBLIC LANDS TO RAILROADS.
On motion by Mr.. BELL,
The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole,
proceeded to the consideration of the bill to
grant to the State Of Alabama the right of way,
and grant of public lands for the purpose Of
locating and constructing railroad from the
point at which the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad crosses the Tennessee river to the town
Of Chattanooga.
No amendment being offered, the bill was re-
ported to the Senate, and ordered to be en-
crossed for third reading.
INDIAN DEPREDATioNS
Mr.. RUSK moved that the Senate take up
for consideration the bill to extend the benefit
Of the 18th section Of the act to regulate inter-
course with Indian tribes, and to preserve peace
on the frontiers, approved January Sd, 1884, to
the people of the State of Texas and others.
After the discussion of this bill, it was post
poned to take up the special ORDER the bhl for
the admission Of
The following amendment offered to the bill
by Mr.. TURSEY, on Saturday, was pending be-
fore the Senate:
After the word Governments" in the title,
insert the words sSouth California"
Strike ont the first section of the bill, and in
sert the following:
BE IL enacted 6y the Senate and House Of Re
personalities If the Uni ed Mates of America in
Congress assembled, That as soon as California
shall have passed in Convention an ordinance
providing:
That she relinquishes all title or claim to tax,
dispose of or in any way to interfere with the
primary disposed by the United States Of the
public domain within her limits
That she will not interpose her authority and
power so as to obstruct or impede any control
which the United States may deem advisable to
exercise over such districts in the mining regions,
(either now discovered or to be discovered here
after,) as may not be included in any lawful grant
made to private individuals, or to corporations,
prior to the cession of California to the United
States:
That the lands of the non-rcsidents shall never
be taxed higher Than those of residents;
That the navigable waters shall be open and
free to all citizens of the United States, those
Of California included; and
That her southern limits shall be restricted to
the Missouri Compromise line, 36 deg 80 min
of North latitude.
And as soon us she shall have produced to the
President of the United States, satisfactory and
authentic evidence that the terms above setforth
have been fully and exactly complied, with the
President of the United States be, and he is
hereby, authorized aud requested, without any
further action on the part of Congress, to issue
his proclamation declaring that California is,
and she shall thereupon be, admitted into the
Union upon an equal footing with the original
States in all respects whatsoever.
SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That such
portions of the revenue collected in the ports OF
California, MS may remain unexpended at the
time of the issuing of the Presidents proclama-
ton ais aforesaid, shall be paid over to the said
State of California.
SEC. 8. And be ii further enaced, That the Sc
majors and Representatives elect now before
Congress for the said State ofCaifornia, shall be
entitled 10 receive, and shall receive, the mileage,
and the per diem pay, allowed to the delegate
from the Territory of Oregon, from the day that
the message Of the President transmitting the
constitution of California was received by Con-
gress.
SEC. a. And be it further enacted, That the
country lying between the thirty-six degrees
thirty m nutes ofnortl latitude, and the boundary
line between Mexico and the United States, ex-
tablishend by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
and extending from the Pacific to the Sierra
Madre, shall constitute Territory under the
name Of Territory of South California, and shall
be organized, as such, under the provisions Of
this bill applying to the Territory of Utah.
Changing names where they ought to be
changed in all respects whatsoever, and shall,
when ready, able, and willing, TO become a
State, and desiring to be such, be admitted into
the Union, with or without slavery, as the
people thereof may desire and make known
through their constitution.
Mr.. SOULE spoke briefly in support Of the
amendment-of the necessity of provision in
the Constitution of California, securing to the
United States entire control over the public do
main within her limits--the desire of the South
to limit the southern boundary of California by
the line of So. 80.
A pass alarms here took place between
Messrs. FooTE and SoULE, a full report of which
will appear hereafter.
The vote was then taken upon the amend
ment, which was rejected--yeas 20, nays 80, as
follows:
YEAs.-Mcssrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell,
Bell, Berrien, Butler, Clemens, Davis, Dawson,
Downs. Foote, Hunter, King, Mason, Pratt
Rusk, Sebastian, Soue, Turney, Yulee.--20.
NAYs-Messrs. Baldwin, Benton, Bradbury,
Bright, Cass, Chase, Cooper, Davis, of Missis-
sippi, Dickinson, Dodge, Of Wisconsin, Dodge. of
Iowa, Douglas, Ewing, Felch, Greene, Hale,
Hamln, Miller, Norris, Seward, Shields, Smith,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Upham, Wales,