The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-05-11
TELEGRAPH DISPATCHES,
CONGRESSIONAL
WAsHr NeToN, May s.
HOUSE.


the House being in Committee of the whole.
Mr.. Vinton's amendment providing for TAX
ing subsequent census in accordance with the
provision of this bill unless it should be al
tered or repealed before the first January
preceding the next census, was adopted
His next amendment providing that the
House of Representatives shall hereafter con-
sist of 200 members was also adopted-72 to
g.
The committee then arose and the greater
part of the amendments were concurred in by
the House and others laid over to be taken
up and voted upon the following day.
SENATE.
| Mr.. JEFF Davis presented series of reso-
lutions adopted by the Legislature of Miss
issipp. defending the proceedings IN that body
in relation to holding Southern convention.
He read at great length from the address of
the State convention to show that all efforts
TO charge that it originated in any desire for
dIsunion were mahciously false or ignorantly
convinced He contrasted the Mississippi
proceedings with the proceedings of various
free soil conventions in the East and West,
which were allowed to pass without rebuke,
and which had in fact led to the present dis
content and alarm in the South.
The resolutions were laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Clay, chairman of the select commit
tee OF thirteen, read the report of that COM
mlttee, OF which the following is an extract:
The committee are unanimously of opin-
ion that new States may be formed out of
Texas under the terms of compact entered in
to by the United States in the resolutions of
annexation, and that when they are formed
they have a clear and undoubted right to be
admitted in the Union as equal States. The
committee do not think that any plan for the
formation of new States out of any territory
belonging to Texas should originate with
Congress, but should be left to the people of
Texas. And also, that such new States
should be admitted without objection on ac-
count OF the exclusion or permission of slave
ry. In considering the question of the admis-
sion of California, majority of the commit
tee are of opinion that every irreguarity in
the proceedings, antecedent to her applica-
ton for admission into the Union, should, in
consideration of the many peculiar circum-
stances OF her position, be overlooked, and re-
commended the passage of the bill introduce
ed by Mr.. Douglas for her admission into the
Union as State.
| Owing to an interruption in Washington
our report was not finished when the Office
closed.)
HOUSE.
The census bill was taken up and the
amendments of the Committee of the Whole
were voted upon.
Mr.. Vinton's amendment, continuing the
law in force for taking subsequent census.
was concurred in.
Mr.. Wilson's second amendment was then
read: when Mr.. Thompson, of Pa, moved to
limit the number Of members under the next
apportionment to 233.
The question was taken on Mr. Thompson's
amendment and agreed to-yeas 3d. nays 70.
The question was taken on Mr.. Vinton's
motion as amended by Mr.. Thompson and
agreed to--yeas lis, nays 80.
The bill was then engrossed and passed
yeas 100, nays 81.
Mr. Thompson, Pa, moved a reconsider
alton OF the vote, which motion was laid on
the table.
The House then went into Committee OF
the Whole on the California message
Mr.. Winthrop having the floor, addressed
the House. He said Congress had right to
apply the proviso and Southern men had no
right to complain. Reproaches ought to be
for those Southerners and their allies of the
North who insisted on bringing the territory
in the Union when they foreknew it would
produce domestic strife.
Mr.. Orr then obtained the floor, when the |
committee rose and the House adjourned.