Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-15
THE COMPROMISE SCHEME.
IN SENATE,


Of the sixty years of our legislation and in the adms-
sion oiseyeneen States there had been no example of
mixing up any foreign matter with their admission.
Every one had come in its own merits, or in COM
pany with something connected with the State 1t was
supposed that there in that statement of
mine and as deemed it very materja thing that we
should not now commence with new State-a course
which is without precedence in the annals of egsa
toni wished, by reference to facts connected with
the admission OF new States to show that this thing has
never been done before The first case cite that OF the
State OF Vermont. She was admitted by an act Feb
ruary Is, 1871, and nothing could be more simple
bret than the provision, nor worthy OF our i'm
| itation now. 1t is entitled
An act for the admission of the State of Vermont
| into this Union.
"The State of Vermont having petitioned the
| Congress to be admitted member OF the United
| States
"Beit enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatueS Of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled and it's hereby enacted and declared
That on the fourth day of March, one thousand seven
| hundred and ninety one the said State, by the
and style of the State Of Vermont shall be received
and admitted into this Union, new and entire
| Der OF the United States of America"
| Approved, Feb. le, 1871. Il Stat. at Lar, 1917
Tins IS the first case; the next is the OF Ken
| lucky.
Act of February 4, 1884, consents to the information
OF the new State, and provides that con the first day Of
June, one thousand hundred and ninety two it
shall be received and admitted into this Union as
new and entire member of the United States OF Ame-
rca" Il Stat. at Lar, 1897
The act is in the breest form, and contains other
| subject.
| The next is the State of
The act is III the breest FORM and contains no other
subject. Il Stat. at Lar, 491.}
| The next is the State of
| Ohlo-Act to authorize the formation of
sion Of such sxate into the Union" Approved soth
| April, 1902. Y Stat. at Lar, 173.)
Act of19th February 1908, "to provide for the due
execution of the laws of the United States within the
State Of Ohio declares the State to have become
| OF The United States" (2sStat. at Lar, 201)
Neither act embraces any other subject than relates
| to the State of Ohio.
There the authorizing the forma ton of consti-
tuition, and her admission into the Union and
the same act and containing nothing in the world that
| did not relate to the admission of the State.
| Louisiana.-Admitted Sth April, 1872. The act in
eludes nothing that does not relate to that State. q
| Stat. at Lar. 701.
lndiana.-Admitted by joint resolution of 18th De-
eember 1916 Clear OF any other matter. g Stat. at
| Lar, 1897
llis,issipi-Ad by joint resolution of 10th
December 1917. Contains nothing besides the admis-
sion. q Stat. at Lar, 472)
IA,nois.-Admittedb by joint resolution OF Sd Decen-
Der, 1915 Contains nothing but the admission e
| Stat. at Lar, $685.
Alabama.-Admitted by joint resolution of 18th De-
| cember, 1873 Contains nothing but the admission.
| q Stat. at Lar, $685.
Maine--Admtted by act of Sd March, 1920 Naked
admission. g Stat at Lar, 544.)
Mssouri.-Admitted by joint resolution of I'd March,
1921. Contains nothing but admission and condition
| for the State to perform 3Stat at Lar, 645)
submit, sir, to the senator from Kentucky, who sup.
posed that there was something else mixed up with the
act OF admission, that it merely when the act was
passed which authorized the formation OF the meeting of
the convention to form the State constitution but that
the JOINT resolution tor the admission OF the State itself
was posterior to that time. The resolution year
after That resolution contained single condition,
which condition being complied with, the President
authorized by proclamation to declare Maine ofthe
| States OF the Union.
| 4Arkansas.-Admitted by act of June l5 1896 Con.
tains nothing hatdoes not relate to Arkansas "A Stat
| at Lar, 50.)
Michigan.-Admitted by act of 26th January, 1887.
Naked admission. a Stat. at Lar, l44.)
Io'ca md Florida-Admed by the act, Sd
March, 1645 Contains nothing that does not relate to
those States. Is Stat. at Lar, 49,
This is the only instance, sir, in which two States
have been coupled together in the same bill at the time
OF their admission These States put together
was case OF equal dignity, and therefore they might
go together. But there nothing in the which
related to anything not Immediately connected with
one or both OF those States. And this precedent
had been previously overued in the of Arkansas
and Michigan when pending before this body at the
| same time. These States were referred to two sepa-
rate committees at the time, reported upon in Sc
parate bills and passed in this chamber para paSsu be-
separate consideration.
Zeras.-Joint resolution, LIST March, 1916
Wasconsin.-Actof Sd March, lS47. Relates only
to concerns OF the State.
Now, sir .he admission of new State into the Union
is clear question Unconstitutional authority Congress
has the written authority for the admission Of States In
init new State; and that is the in every instance
in which the Congress of the United States is under OBJ
legation or compact to admit new State when it shall
fulfil such conditions prescribed That is the case
with respect to California BY our treaty with Mexico
we entered into covenant with her admit these States
when it could be done consistently with the principles of
the constitution, and the system OF oursovernmen We
have both constitutional authority and treaty obligation
upon US for acting upon this subject. For have said
before, California has fulfilled every prerequisite which
necessary entte her the right of State She has
q hat ia
new Sate-a population of one two hundred thou
sand men, what might be called census population
of six hundred thousand souls-whereas, all
other cases the population has been limited ten
twelve Thousand men, or sixty seventy thousand
souls California, then, has constitution in her hands
which gives Congress the authority to admit new States
She has the treaty with Mexico in her hands, which
makes it obligatory upon the Congress of the United
States to admit her when she presents herselfnder cir
cumstances coming up to our requirements and she has
done It, Here, then, is the constitution of the United
States IN one hand and the treaty with Mexico in the
other hand and sixty years the uniform practice 1.-THE
governmental such to sustain her the constitu-
ton, the treaty, and sixty years of practice without
single deviation from it,
That is the question to be acted upon, without sub
Jectng her to the degradation OF being mixed up with
subject OF which she has washed her hands for the
precise and identical purpose of preventing her adms
sion from being dependant upon the decision of that
question: She has done it; and 10 undertake to
mix her up with all these subjects growing otsave
~ in the United States is in my opinion wrongng her.
In my opinion, it's indgnity her. 1t is an injury
and an Indlgny; and more than that goes rebuke
her, aud Is tell her that she has done what she ought
not to do in undertaking clear herself from what She
knew to be an exciting subject in the United States,
and with which she wanted nothing to do. Now to
mix her up with that subject after she has in the most
solemn manner cleared herself of itand cleared herself
for the express purpose OF being free for admission here
indepenent of its, under these circumstances an in
jury and great indignty.
NASHVILLE CONFERENCE.-The Columbia rs. c. |
Telegraph says that learns, by private dispatch that,
at meeting OF Southern Senators in Congress- held at
Washington, the 9th inst the result was full recog
milton of the necessity and propriety of the Nashville