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WAsHlEGToS, april 81 Pm.

SENATE. After the presentation OF numer.
Gus reports from committees, and transactions
OF morning business, tho Senate proceeded
to the consideration OF the special order OF
the day, being Mr.. Foote's motion to refer
Mr.. Bells resolutions to selec, committee
Of thirteen.
MIR. DOUGLAS gave notice, lha. alter Mir.
Benton should have concluded his speech,
he would ask the Senate 10 take up the Calls
fornia Bill.
Mr.. BEsToK proceeded 10 address the Sen.
ate. 1t was proposed 10 make the admission
OF California part Of a system Of measures
for the settlement Of the whole question OF
slavery. He was opposed to this mixing Of
subjects having no afinities, and he was in
favor Of having California admission a sepa
rate question, and that il be decided on its
own merits. She was State, and should not
be mixed Up with anything below the dignity
OF State. She had washed her hands OF
slavery al home, and should not be mixed
with it abroad; he was opposed to mixing
the question Of admitting California with all
the questions which the slavery agitation had
produced, and making one general settlement
Of the whole, in the nature Of compact Of
compromises. The subjects are
LIST. The creation Of territorial governments
OF New Mexico and the remaining part Of
California.
I'd. The erection Of new States in Texas,
the reduction OF her boundary, the settlement
OF her dispute with New Mexico, and the ces
sion Of her surplus territory to the u, States
81, The recapure Of fugitive slaves.
4ih The suppression Of the slave trade in
the District Of Columbia
5h, The abolition Of the slave trade in
he States.
9th, The abolition OF slavery w,hin the
U. S., and the non.enImera.ed catalogue Of
oppression and encToackment on the South. -
This was the last ofthe subject, and he was
against the mixture. California had the right
10 be treated as other States had been, on
asking admission into the Union; none has
been subjected to the indignity Of having its
application coupled with the addition of in.
(erior and foreign questions Of territorial gov
eminent. He brought up the Wimot pro-
viso, the principle involved in which, had
already been settled by California for herself;
how unjust then, TO connect it with the ques
ton Of her admission, and 10 make il depen-
dent on the settlement OF the question oil
eighboring territories. The Proviso invol.
we'd the controverted constilutonality, and
therefore should not be mxad with a subject
clearly and beyond doubt constitutional
He was ready to vote for government 10 the
colonies, 8'c.-he believed that slavery was
extinct in New Mexico and all California,
and cannot be received in any par, Of either
without positive enactments-he was ready
10 vote them governments without any pros
vision on The subjec! Of slavery. but would
not mix the queslions-he was ready TO vote
upon The Texas question, and for the recap
ture Of fugitive slaves, bu! not TO tie them to
proposition Of a new State. California
had nothing to do with these qussIions-no
interest with them.
For 60 years the question Of slavery in The
District OF Columbia, and in tho States, had
Iemainsd untouched, therefore there was no