Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-09-13

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ror of $50 $50 the administrator of Commodore James
Barron communication for the naval services of said
of law.
Resored That officers of the Virginia navy during the
of the Revolution not entitled to communion and
Resolred That the payment of compound interest in the
of Commodore James Barron made in violation OF
Resolved That the sum of $50 paid Messrs
Cocoran Riggs assignees of VIM M. Gwnn, just
the Chckasaw Indians, and improperly paid to
Mr. Vinton also made minority report.
Mr.. Richardson moved that the reports be printed,
and that their further consideration be postponed
till this day two weeks
Mr.. Vinton said he opposed the postponement
and desired to offer resolutions substitutes for
those of the gentleman from Illinois.
The question on pOstponement was taken by yeas
and nays, and decided in the negatiye-yeas 81, nays
! 107
The hour of II o'clock having arrived,
The Speaker stated that the House would proceed
to execute the special order which the consider
alton of the Texas boundary bill
The question pending yesterday was the motion
made by MIR. McLane, of Md. to commit the bill to
the committee of the whole the state of the I'm
ion. which he had moved the previous question.
! Mr.. McLane who yesterday made the motion to
commit the bill temporarily withdrew the demand
for the previous question with view to explanation.
He said he very distinctly that it the bill was
committed farther amendment made to it, it would
be lost. He had been appealed to on the other side
of the House Whig side) to withdraw the motion to
enable them to move boundary line further South
to take from Texas territory than was taken
from her by the bll-that is to leave to her much
as they believed belonged to the old province of
! Texas. He had also been appealed to by others on
this side of the House democratic side to withdraw
the motion for the previous question to enable gen
tlemen to move the Rio Grande as the boundary
The gentlemen are equally confident those on the
other side that they can carry such boundary, and
that it would add strength to the bill.
He, for one would prefer the Rio Grande as the
boundary to the boundary in the bill. He had no
confidence however, that the adoption of either the
the other boundary could be carried OR if it
could that it wonld strengthen the bill. The boun-
dary wished to be proposed the other side called
the Ewing boundary had been, on several occasions,
voted down in the Senate and if it were placed in
the BILL it could not pass through that body. He
did not believe that the bill could be amended in "a
ny form to give it more strength. He would, there
FORE adhere to his motion for the previous question:
which motion he would vote for, and then vote a
ganst the motion to commit, with view OF bringing
the House to vote ultimately upon the amendment
and the bill.
The question was put, and the previous question
was seconded-yeas 80, nays 60.
The question being now ordering the main
question: which the commitment OF the bill,
the yeas and nays were ordered.
A motion to lay on the table was lost-yeas 30,
nays 1862
The question was then taken on ordering the main
question to be put, and decided in the affirmative
yeas 1885, nays 68,
| The question was then taken on Cne mOJlOn 10 re-
fer to the committee of the whole, and carried-yeas
101, nays 90.
The bill by this vote is considered as lost It is
presumed that all those friendly to the billfriend-
ly to settlement of the question-friendly to the
quiet of the country and stability Ofthe Union voted
against the commitment. If the motion to commit
had not been carried, the question would have re-
Cured on the amendment of Mr.. Boyd, and then on
the bill amended or otherwise
Mr.. Waldo of N. Y, moved to reconsider the vote
bV which the bill was committed.
Mr.. Root moved to lay that motion on the table
and demanded the yeas and nays thereon. They
were ordered.
The question was then taken on laying the motion
to reconsider the table, and it decided In thu
: negative-yeas 1O3, nays lO2.
The Chair voted in the negative, which made tin
vote l03 to 103, and it was determined in the mega
: tive.
! The question then required the motion to re
- consider, which question was taken a vote by yea
:, and nays, and carried in the affrmatiye-yeas 104
=. nays 90.
The motion was reconsidered.
The question REQUIRED on the motion to commit t
the committee of the whole the state of the Union
MIR. Root demanded the yeas and nays. The
+ ordered and aken and the result was yeas 1Ol
nays lO3
: So the House refused to commit the bill.
10 The Speaker said the question would now be o.
~ the amendment proposed by MIR. Cllngman, OF N.
Il This amendment, published few days ago, create
~ new territory on the Pacific, out of portion
h. California 1t is as follows
Be further enacted, That all that portion of territory
acquired from Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe Hdagc
bounded follows by line commencing in the Pacific Ocea
the parallel of sc degrees north latitude three miles or
A main land running thence due east till it strikes the Se
Nevada thence eastwardly and northwardy with tn
range parallel of3
deg north latitude thence due east with said parallel unit
it strikes the Sierra Madra thence souhey with the
of the until it reaches the boundary between the u
and the Republic of Mexico thence westwardly with sal
boundary to the Pacific Ocean thence northwardy with tn
to the beginning the whole of the said territory
constitute the territory of Colorado and that the
of he
provided for the territory of New Mexico by the
of ing provisions of this bill.
of The question was taken this amendment b
of yeas and nays, and it rejected-yeas &c. nay
by $50.
u Mr. Thompson, of Miss, said Mr.. Speaker, b
DIV leve that the only question pending is the
,e- mendment of the gentleman from Kentucky, (M
of Boyd and that it is impossible by any means to
ar tempt further amendment.
IS The chair answered in the affirmative
w. Mr.. ThOmpsOn.-Then ] move test questio
al that the bill be laid upon the table.
rst Mr.. Bayly protested that it could not be made
alf test question on the BILL for the amendment migl
m be voted down.
o. Mr.. Thompson withdrew the motion. MIR. Ash
If renewed it, and on that motion Mr.. McClernand
nv manded the yeas and nays. They were ordered ar
ed the question being taken, the result was yeas
of nays al.
leo So the bill was not laid upon the table.
at The question then required on the amendment
ID Mir. Boyd, providing territorial government for Ne
ST. Mexico.
ce, The question was taken by yeas and nays and I
nut sulted-yeas SO, nays 106:
YEAs-Messrs Albertson, Aston, Anderson, Ashe, AS
Bay, Bayly, Beae, Bokee, Bowie Bown, Boyd, rec
he Briggs Brooks Brown, Buel, Butler, Cabell Geo Cal
att well, Joseph P CALDWELL Casey, Clngman Cobb, DAM
" Deberry, Dmmiek, Duer, Durham, Edmunson, Elliot, E
ing Fuller, Gentry Gerry, Gilmore, German, Green Ha