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publi; 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 10
exercise over such districts in the mining regions
(either now discovered, or to be discovered here
after as NAV not be included in amy lawful
grant made to private individuals, or to corpora
tons, prior TO the session of California 10 the
| United States;
That the lands of the nQn-residents shall never
be taxed higher than those presidents;
| 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, (t!rty. STA
degrees thirty minutes of north atitude3
And as soon as she shall have produced to the
President Of the United States satisfactory and
authentic evidence that the terms above set forth
have been fully and exactly complied with, the
President of the United States be, and he is
hereby, authorized and 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 IL further enacted, That such
portions of the revenue collected in the ports OF
California as may remain unexpended at the time
Of the issuing of the Presidents proclamation as
aforesaid, shall be paid over to the said State OF
California.
SEE. 3. And be IL further enacted, That the
Senators and Representatives elect now before
Congress for the said State of California shall
be entitled to receive, and shall receive, the mile
age 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 ii further eaacted, That the
country lying between thirty-six degrees thirty
minutes of north latitude and the boundary line
between Mexico and the United States. estab-
lished by the treaty of Guadalupe Hdalgo, and
extending from the Pacific to the Sierra M.dre,
shall constitute a Territory, under the name OF
Territory of South California, and shall be or
ganized, 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 State, and desiring
to be such, be admitted into the Union, with or
without slavery, as the people thereof may de-
sire and make known through their constitution.
After very long debate,
| The question being then taken upon the
amendment, il was rejected-yeas 10, nays So
as follows ~
YEAs-Messrs Atchison, Barnwell, Berrien
Butler, Clemens, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson,
Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, King, Mason,
Morton, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Turney, and
Yuee-l9.
NAYs-Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell Ben.
| ton, Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke, Clay Cooper,
Corwin, Davis Of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dick
inson, Dodge of Wisconsin, Douglas, Felch,
Greene, Hale, Hamlin, Jones, Miller, Norris,
Pearce, Phelps, Pratt, Seward, Shields, Smith,
Sturgeon, Underwood Upham, Wales, Walker,
Webster, and Whitcomb-36.
July 18th.
| The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole,
resumed the consideration of the bill for the
admission of California as State into the
| Union, to establish Territorial governments for
Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to
Texas for the settlement of her western and
northern boundaries.
Mr.. BUTLER having the floor, resumed and
concluded his remarks commenced on Tuesday
last.
Mr.. CLAY rose, after n brief pause, and said !:
! Mr.. President, if there is no other gentleman
disposed to speak, hope we shall take up the
amendments and act upon them.
! The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is no
amendment before the Senate Several amend
ments have been laid upon the table, but there
have been none offered.
! Mr. CLAY Then the question will be on re
| porting the bill to the Senate.
Mr.. DAYTON. | have an amendment which
propose to offer at the proper time If this be
| the proper time, offer it no y.
The amendment proposes to strike out of the
fourth clause of section 80, after the words
"the United States in consideration of the three
preceding articles" the words
Sand considering that to a portion of the
creditors Of Texas were pledged the duties on
foreign imports receivable in her ports, as Sc
curity for the reimbursement of the loans and
advances which they made to the said State
and that the said duties, since the annexation of
the said State TO the United States, have been
received and are receivable by them
SO that the clause, if the amendment be
agreed to, will stand thus:
Fourth. The United States, in considera-
ton of the three preceding articles, will pay to
the State of Texas the sum of - dollars
in stock bearing per cent interest, payable
half-yearly at the Treasury of the United States,
the principal to be rcdeemabe at the end of
fourteen years which said stock shall be-"
The amendment proposes to strike out the
continuation of the section
First applied to the extinction of any debt
for which tie duties on imports were pledged
as aforesaid, and the residue thereof in such
manner as the said State may direct"
And insert the following
"Applied to the payment and extinction of the
public debt of said State in the whole or pro
rata Prorided, That upon payment by the
United States of the sum aforesaid, in manner
aforesaid, the State of Texas shall release and
transfer to the United States all her right, title,
and interest in and to the vacant and unappro-
priated lands lying within her limits"
And leaving undsturbed the following pro-
vis0;
"Prorided, That nothing herein contained is
to be construed to imply admit the liability of
the United States for any portion of the public
debt of Texas"
The first question was on concurripg in the
amendment to the fifth section, providing that
the Territory to Utah may hereafter be admitted
into the Union as a State, with or without
slavery, as her constitution may prescribe.
Mr. SEWARD called for the yeas and nays