The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-30

Aforesaid duty .fss reasonable notice BY tho eom:.ioa-
81 ~ uo pstt Of the uned States OF II The Stale o. MiS
souri, OF government of Iowa either Of them should fail
after reasonable notice rom he Pssdep, Of the Uni,sd
Sta thon and In that appointed
tho duties soined by ts with e.r Of aid commis
slonsrs who attend without oil either
or Of both OF said commissioners. case may be-
Nothing in the world but the business Of surveyinxto
90 upon the grounds IN the two acts Of Congress There
was guide 10 30 by No discussion. no Legislative su
thony no stripping Congress OF !aer right TO DO they
but the mere functions OF proving or dsprovng the line
agreed upon.
question ior information to myself Al the time these
were appointed upon the part OF Georgia
and the United States had the United States acquired any
title from the Yazoo county
| MIR BERRlEN. am able to answer the question
The United States alleged tile TO that portion OF the
territory of Georgia to which she got up claim tina
OCCASION on The ground thai was the INDICATED terri
tory within the limits of Georgia which having been
won from Great Britain by common exercise Of the
power all this ought 10 be common property Tor Inc
United States That the claim OF the United States
Georgia. on the other hand, claimed that her bound
AIRY originally extended blythe terms OF her charter to
the Pacific, and her western boundary limited by
the treaty of peace in 1888 to the Mississippi her limits
extended from the Atlantic to the Mississippi That was
her claim Georgia had sold TO certain chartered compa
MES certain individual portions OF the public domain
Afterwards the State of Georgia had declared the sale
made to these companies to be null and void They had
been tigatng their claim, or rather their CLAIM had been
transferred to third person, and was lilgated, as the
senator from South Carolina may probably recollect, in
the Supreme Court Of the United States upon made
Georgia when she made this cesson to the United States
took from the United States stipulation that 900 600
of the land should be made basis OF stock with which
the United States should extngush the claims OF that
Yazoo company That stock was issued under the pro-
Yazo1 claimants were TO come before the United States
to receive their proportion OF that stock and renqush TO
the United States whatever Claim they had.
/ Mr. I had no
Senate in relation to this matter. But this having inter-
esed somewhat. called upon TO make few, and
but few remarks Although bave conceded that the
appoint commissioners may have heretofore resided IN
Congress, am unwilling, al this tme to have 1t exer-
cised My opinion, as lar as can speak from an i'm
preston relation to these Yaz0O claims. is, that certain
persons, certain companies claimed it Georgia revoked
the grant, and resumed jurisdiction over it. The Uni.
ted States certainly in negotiation with the State OF
United States claimed both over the title of this compa
ny, and also the title of Georgia. and assumed urisdic
ton over these lands, now constituting Alabama and
Mississippi. And it was with view to this fazoo
purchase that these commissioners were finally appointed
not only establish the limit, but suppose also to
agree upon consideration Now. il my object was the
here might agree to the commissioners being APP
poiated But do not want Texas 10 sell anything nor
do want to have her territory decided to be in the pos
M ST Of ssS%as Msx Il s that
quoted and drawn from the territory Of Missis'
spp, think that the gentlemen who have addressed the
Senate have left one, and certainly the most delicate,
item in this negotiation Tha, Natchez district, to
which the gentlemen from Georgia referred district
into which Georgia sent her Justices he must be aware,
district claimed by Great Britain apart oil Florida
west; for Great Britain had grants of land running
along the Mississippi. as high as Yazoo But when dl
ring our revolutionary war SPaln as the ally OF the Uh
Great Britain, she set up her claim extending to the Mis-
slssippi river II was controversy, not between the
United States and the State OF Georgia alone but between
the United States and Spain also and Spain held posses
OF this country long after the possession by Georgia,
and was finally deprived Of this possession by revolu.
Of M T. the county
and took possession OF the territory territory OF the
United States. This was question Involving both
Georgia and Florida and think for the purposes for
which il was used by the senator from Georgia, Mr.
Dawson is ~ utterly v2lueless As The case OF mis-
souri, and Iowa
TO decide whether the Des MONIES rapids were in
the Mississippi in the Dcs MONIES rivers and Tor
that purpose the commissioners were sent out The Ter
r,ory OF Iowa claimed that the rapids in the Des Mones
river the Des Moines rapids. On the other hand
the State of Missouri claimed that the fall the Missouri
river was the Des MONIES rapids The point was 70 es
ablsh where these rapids The determining OF that
point determined the line. Neither of these questions
bear upon the before This not proposition
and to coerce Texas to ees9onno m in the case OF
Georgia, to determine what the cesson was IL is d
| ferent proposition altogether
! And now, my friend from Georgia speaks 40 en-
phatcaly OF his attachment to that part OF this Union
which both represent, lei say him, what is to be
her fate By whom these commissioners 10 be ap.
Texas' No; but the claim Of the United States against
Texas Upon the other hand how is the claim Of Texas
to be specified! How is the commissioner Of Texas 10
be induced 10 recede from her demand, and to
yield TO the extreme demands OF the commissioners ap-
pointed adverse the claim OF Texas BY large offers
of money. On the hand the section which the
Tor and myself represent, lose the land And then,
the other hand who is to bear the burden OF taxation
which rs 10 furnish the money TO be paid for III And
what controversy 10 be determined by this being turned
the United States. to be subject to the same temp
taton controversy other TerTtorlesi IL this dss
raolea IL likely To stop the controversy betw cen lex
and New Mexico or IL il not # ntimatiDg to
Texas that her claim not 10 be recognised and alb
lshed BY Congress, the only power to which she prop
ey Transfers ii Are we, representatives OF the Union.
and influenced 10 extent by sectional prejudces TO
stand here and surrender up great and delicate
ton this into the hands OF commissioners appointed in
this manner II seems TO me that sword with two
edges cutting the South. We lose rights in
Texas and be increased furNsah the
means of paying for Them and by which To Be de-
pved OF this territory cannot conceive how my friend
from Georgia couples proposition OF this kind with dec
iaatons TO maintain the last inch that Tor which
| contend
| On motion by Mr. CHASE. the Senate adjourned.
49, THE public informed Ates The 04th
instant the splendid pressure Baltimore
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