Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
THE COMPROMISE BILL.
THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1850.

western and northern boundaries.
The pending question on the amendment Of Mr.
SouLx as follows;
After the word Government" in the title Of the BILL in
sert the words South California, and strike out the first
second and third sections Of the BILL and insert the foowing
Be enacted sc. That California SHALL have
passed in convention an ordinance providing
Thst she relnquiskes all title claim to tax, dispose Of
or in to interfere with the primary by the
United States of the public domain within her limits
That she will nterpose her authority and power
to disturb impede control which the United States
may deem advisable to exercise over such districts in the
mining regns either discovered or to be discovered
hereafter be included in lawful grant made to
private individuals corporations prior to the cerson OF
California to the United States;
That the andsof the non-resdents shall De taxed
higher than those ofrssidents;
That uavgable waters shall be open and free to all
citizens Of the United States those of California included;
That the southern limits shall be restricted TO the Mis-
compromise line, Csc deg 80 min. north latude;
And she shall have produced to the President
of the United States satisfactory and authentic evidence that
the here forth have been fully and exactly complied
with the President of the Uned States be and he is hereby
authorized requested without ay further action the
part of Congress- to issue mis- proclamation declaring that
California is andha she shall be admitted into the
Union upon equal footing with the original States Hn all
respects whatsoever. |.> ~" ..a
Sec. o BED enacted &c. Tha, such portion of the
collected in the ports Of California may remaa
pended the time of the issuing the Presidents preSma
ton aforesaid shall be paid to tho sad State Of Ca
lifornis-
..see g. Be it enacted Sc That the Senator's and Repre-
senaves elect before Congress for the said State of Ca
torna shall be entitled to receive, and shall receive the
mileage and the per diem pay allowed to the Delegate from
the Territory fOegon, from the day that the message of thu
President transmitting the constitution OF Cafoia
Sec l. BE il e.as.ed, Sc That the country lying be-
the so deg SO min Of north attude and the boundary
treaty ofGuadaIupe Hdago, and extending from the Pacific
the Sierra Nevada, shall constitute Territory under the
name Of Terrory OF South California and snail be organ
Territory Utah. changns names where they ought 10 be
changed all respects Whatsoever and SHALL when ready
able and willing to become State, and desiri~g to be SUCH
be admitted into the Union. with without slavery the
people thereof may desire and make known through their
constitution" .%:.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Mr. PresdeBa, the amendment of the
Honorable memberfrom Louisiana r. SoUDs) respects that
part of the present bill which proposes the immediate adms
sion of California into the Union State and the amend
opposed to that immediate admission 1t proposes
the contrary, that the subject shall be referred back the
people of California that certain conditions and notifications
the constitution of California SHALL be proposed to them,
and that if the people California in convention have
acceded such conditions and notifications then the Pesi
dent of the United States shall issue his proclamation,
nouncng that fact and thereupou California shall be admitted
into the Union State. n,....
The question therefore is, whether, upon the WHOLE
would be advisable under all the circumstances Of the
case, to admit California to send her constitution
back again. and postpone to future and indefinite period
her admission into the Union In my opinion, sir, it is
highly expedient to admit California In my opinion it
is highly expedent to give her proper position in the
Union and to give her such powers as shall enable her TO
evove among the other obs of system and really be-
eve that that is the settled Judgment of great majority of
the people Of this country If there be any question growing
of these territorial acquisitions which there seems to
be general Twill not say unanimous public opinion it is
that under the circumstances e1pedenand proper admit
California into the Union whoutfurher delay She presents
hersefhere with sufficient population. She presents con-
stuion towhch in general aspect as republican consu
ton, make objection. The is urgent and
pressing No State has appeared asking adms
sion into the Union under circumstances extraordinary and
striking; nor have the oldest of presented
with such pecuiarities and snEuarties There is in the
Of ind knnxu
such extraordinary rush Of people for private enterprise
point the eaIts surface II has ieen represented
heretofore that there 50, 600 people in California 1t
would that this very day there fifty sixty
thousand persons aye7sing the great PLAINS between Mis-
souri, and the Rocky Moutans, all bound to California.
Other thousands passing round Cape Horn other thou
sands again crowd press fill up, and than FILL up every
conveyance that will take them to and romEhe Ishmu So
that may be said and truly said, that this very year will
add ahundred thousand persons tothe population of California
the most striking within generation,
generation, far respects any private enterprise and
the extraordinary rush OF people to given psnt upon the
earhs surface The capital Of the Territory supposed to
contain thirty forty thousand people; 200 vessels have
already been sent thher $50 400 ships have been found
riding in the harbor of San Francisco the time San
Francisco. the capital rs have already stated, contains
population of thirty forty thousand people. California
looks upon India, and China Polynesia the West
as we look out upon Europe to the East Now the question
is what is to be done with California Sir, five years ago
happened say, public discussion, that perhaps
the time not far distant when there would be established
beyond the Rocky Mountains and the shore the sea-
great Pacific Republic o which San Francisco would be the
capital am overwhelmed by the appearance of the possible
fulfent of that prophecy suddenly And, sir that
the Ghndti. in judgment do not think it safe Ion.
ger delay the bringing Of California into this Unon unless
gentlemen willing to contemplate that alternative Other
gentlemen have good of information of the of
opinion in California have; perhaps My nfor-
nation is such, amy rate that do think SAFE if
intend 10 bring her into the Union at all to defer that measure
to another session of Congress- to any time beyond that
of her admission. Then, suppose, that that being the
sentiment of this and the other house Of Congress that
that it is eIpedien there insurmountabe obstacles,
to bring California into the Union once and do
dersand the intention of the author of This amendment other
wise than hs not for objections which be has pro-
pounded to the Senate, he should be willing admit Caor
MIA And the question IT, whether those obec
tons insurmountable not If they are California
be kept out of the Unon let the consequences be what they
may But if they not insurmountabe then think,
though things may exist which might wish had been other
wise, yet is case Of much exgency and emergency
that we ought admit California Let then once
to that point and what these objections which have
been suggested by the honorable member from Louisiana
They divide themselves into classes He says, the
hrst place, that under the constitution of California and
the bill unamended, there is sufficient security that the
United States will possess, enjoy, CONTROL have the right
to dispose OF the pu lie domain unappropaed lands in
California That is the fret objection The second relates
to toe boundaries Of California which he says are extrava-
ganty large, in the first place in the second place. unnau
raj; and in the third, impoic and unfit to be made Now
he proposes remedy what he considers the first great
deficiency Of the bill, by sending back this constitution to
California, and obtaining from