The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-02

IN CONTINUATION
SENATE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GoyEaNmEsTs-ADJ
Mr. DAWSON. | move 10 amend the amendment by a.
ding the following words;
Aal be IL farther saaeef That until such limo a. ,s
boundary waan tho Sa,e OF rexas and ierr,ory
Of the Uaed States bs agreed by legislature
aIs Texas ,ud the government Of lte United STATES
tie erfltiia " nmsnt auila'iztd by this ,la
ss,e be gsbl shed New Mexico embracing any teIn
ioy east OF lbe ITO Gsande
The Object Of the amendment is merely thls Daring
the endency u this Adjustment this territorial bill ought
moi 10 20 into operation eas Of ,he Rio Grade. L is
conceded, believe, by all, and commended in the bill
but the bill not exactly full upon that point, and
MI Nj oHNToN asked Tor ;hs yeas and nays which
Alr Il. then said suppose iii very well known lothe
whole Sene that here no settlements except upon the
east side OF III. RIO Gande that upon the west side OF that
.te are neat 10 Doneonls few scattering fsrms
racheros, with very small villages, amounting
to next no,ng The whole power OF the settlements
the east side, aud always has beenhe broad part
OF ihe valley being tie east side There is the capital
Santa Fe, aud there lie the whole OF the public lands
look upon the amendment which is proposed by lne
senator IRON eosa. reduced 10 pain English as being
this that all the territory east OF the Rio Giande shall
be conceded to Texas. That ia the English oil it,
think il will be better 10 put II into plain form. Let
vote upon understandingly. think that would be the
way, sir.
With respect to the other part of it, Mr. President il
reads il it contained clause to this effect that
ton three OF article four OF the constitution shall oe sus
pended until Texas consents to It's execution. look
upon the proposition submitted by the senator IRON Geor
ga as presenting TWO points, is, &c grant the whole
territory the Rio Grande to Texas and the other
s to suspend the clause OF the constitution winch
tozes Congress 10 act upon the admission of States
This is the clause which think the proposition to
suspend for il defers the agreement until Texas shall
agree that it shall go into execution.
New States may be admitted by Congress into this
Union.
That is the power. Now for the limitation:
But no new Stsie shall be erected within the
jurisdiction of any other State.
That is one limitation upon the power Of Congress
Nor any be o.med by the conunc Of Two older
saes parts o States, without The consent OF The legs-
laiuu oil the States concerned as well as oil Couxess
That is the other.
We are engaged, Mr.. President, III what is called
compromise We go into compact now with ourselves
bnd Congress in time 10 come. We undertake TO limit
the power OF future Congresses which future Congresses
have actually power 10 do they please with the two
Limitations which are expressed IN the constitution
Either of these limitations applies territory OF the United
States and each Congress-, when comes 10 entertain
the question OF admitting State, has It's own hands
the whole power OF action the territory of the UNI
ted States II belongs 10 itself exclusively to say what
Rlory will or will not include IN new State. II We
undertake TO bind SUCCESSORS when we cannot bind
ourselves will be unbound 10 morrow. II We un
defake to reach forward to bind our successors, the
work nugatory point OF effect, aud worse Than nuga
tory undertaking 10 bind our SUCCESSORS. The
Congress which comes to admit State has all the
questions before itself winch belong 10 the matter.
!
These two limitations will govern II, and nothing
that put INTO the bill viii have any niluence on
hem should hold il TO be disofdefy upon The ques
hoas oil the admission State III time 10 come, Tor
any person TO get up and read act oil Congress IA op-
position to this clause OF the constitution Congress Is
sworn TO obey the constitution The future Congresses
will not be sworn to obey our law. We have no right
10 undertake bind them, To cTcumscrbe them, nor
10 restrict them in any particular. II Is contrary 10 the
constitution OF The United States for US to undertake to
restrict them. II il piacAg restriction upon them which
itself violation OF their constitutional nights and
duiies, under the oaths which they will have taken
Their constitutional power is the only rule which they
have got TO go BY, the admission o new States They
are TO look 10 nothing which any CoDETess has SAID upon
the subject They will take up this constitution and
sad H. and upon this they will act aad the only effect
Of adopting the smendmen, OF the senator IRON Georgia
present and deliver al once the whole OF New Mex
| leo east OF the RIO Gande, constituting the whole
strength and power OF the country taking its almost on
nfe populaton-for there very few upon the other
de,akng all its fields It's orchards. It's nocks, herds,
and populaton and presenting them at once to The State
OF Texas.
Mr. CLAY. The proposition made by the senator
IRON Georgia appears TO 10 be characterized with
great fairness. Here ~ territorial dispute between the
United States and Texas. Here IS mode OF -etding
that territorial dispute proposed BY the bill under cons'd-
eatoD rather by i..e amendment. Now s,r, what IS
the amendnens Il is to the Uned States from
treating this disputed territory It's properly until
the dispute il settled That the whole vi tnat IS
he injustice OF IL there not toe greatest proprey
this Have ali con,cndcd throughout .his discus
ron that the an,ecedeni settlement and adjustment OF TINS
territorial boundary essential TO acuon, essential
even 10 government Well. bad intended to propose.
and viii propose during the progress OF The discussion
OF this mendment, some time within which bis conms-
son shall report respectively To the legislature oil Texas
and 10 Congress. had thought aud am inclined now
propose, thai they sha report by tne rs day Of Jan.
nary and by the st cay OF February al u tesl
10 Congress believe repor, may 0e made out by mat
time. do not believe 1t viii be found necessary at All
Tor the commission to explore the oounty dispute On
he contrary. ihnk thai they meet here at ash
lngonif they agree 10 meet hcreor AT New Orleans,
or at Austin, and month agree upon convention
al line, and recommend ii 10 the Legislature OF Texas and
to Congress- II is that depends upon documents,
mafs HISTORIES and travels and think tbat the
son. without soing ali 10 Santa Fe ibe ground dis
and IN hve or SIX weeks after they have opened their
sesAop. decide the question Ii by the hrs, of Feb
ruay, and the legislature OF Texas by The first of Japa
~, eau have conventional line reported to the Tvs o
bodes the whole matter be settled in eight or nine
months
Now with respect to the Institutional objection why
Mr. President what IA At, Congress has right to ad.
and how portion of this Territory shall become State
Why the greatest objections, the most po,en, OBJ
eciion, made against the admission OF Calt rnia
throughout this has been, that she s To be ad
ned in violation Of the established pracce, and with
out the authority OF Congress, 10 come and ask adms
non State The practice OF the government has
been for Congress to pass law authorizing the lorna
ton of State government. and the adoption oil con-
suton, and the transmission of II here tor as to act
upon it, But only from the nature OF the bdI, not
only from the nature OF the powers possessed by this gov
ernnen only from the OF the language OF the
eonstiutlon but the express language Of the treaty OF
hdago tits provided that they 10 be admitted to the
nights OF American citizens when Congress, in its udg
ment shall determine Now, ask the whole country