Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-08-22
AUGUST %. 1850.



Sennes.-Aifer tho confederation Of the morn
ing business, the California bill was again tske1
up, the question pending between Nj. Turney'a
amendment being The same % that submitted BY
M. Soule a. Q subitutute for the California
part Of the omnibus.
Rejected-Yess, 20, nays, 90
After some additional remarks, the question
was stated on the engrossment ofthe bill.
Mr.. Hunter moved an adjournment. Lost
Yeas. 20; nays, 81.
Mr.. Davis. of Miss. moved postponement un-
til to morrow-Lost by same vote.
Mr.. Foote moved that the bill be laid upon
the table.-Lost. 10 to 81
Mr.. Turney again moved an adjournment,
which was losl-Yens Ia. nays q.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed-
Yeas 50, nays l9, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Baldwin, Bell, Benton, Brad
bury, Bright, Cass, Chase Cooper, Davis of Mass,
Dickinson, Dodge Of Wis, Dodge OF Iowa,
Douglass, Ewing, Felch, Green, Hale, Hamlin,
Houston, Miller, Norris, Phelps, Seward. Smith,
Shields, Spruance Sturgeon, Underwood, Upham,
Wales, Walker, Winthrop and Whitcomb.
Nays-Messrs. Atcbison, Barnwcll, Berrien,
Clemens, Davis of Miss, Dawson, Foote. Hunt
er, King, Mason, Motion, Pratt, Rusk, Sebas-
tian, Soule, Turney aud Yulee.
The question being stated upon the passage
of the bill Mr.. Davis of MISS, rose to make q
speech, but yielded to 4 motion, and the Senate
adjourned.
The House resolved itself into Committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union on the Civ
il anc Diplomatic Appropriation bill.
Mr.. Casey proceeded to speak in favor Of
protective policy in connection with the interests
of Pennsy vania, and referred to the dissentions
of the Locofocos with regard to the Tariff OF az,
1T. L. throuub ho
,reachery of Dallas He showed from figures,
The depressed condition of Iron Manufacturers
in tina: State owing to this.
| Mr. GidJlngs SAID, that to the joy and graft
fcation of the people of the North the Omnibus
bill was defeated; but those who voted against
! it have gone over and taken position more dan
gerous to the North than that measure. The
bill of the Senate, proposing the settlement OF
the Texas boundary, was now before the House.
The Senators who voted 10 strike out so much OF
the Omnibus as fixed the boundary at the hum
dred,h degree, voted afterward to extend it fur
Their west, giving Texas forty thousand square
miles, Territory as large as Ohio, and ten mil
lions of dollars beside. lie was tod this bill,
so unjust TO the Western States, New Mexico
and the North, was 10 be passed in this body by
Wing votes by force Of Executive power. But
this cannot be done. Gentlemen calculated
without their host when they say the Executive
can SO act The public sentiment Of the Union
bids defiance to it. He then discussed the Tex
as boundary-denying the extravaganza claims OF
Texas, aud insisting on the ancen: boundary OF
New Mexico. He rejoiced to say the Presiden,
has shown no disposition 10 recede from that po-
sition; but he repudiated paying tribute ~ Tex
as, whose representatives. are not constitrtonssy
here, but by sufferance; and now they p"'pose
to dissolve the Union ii we don't give ner ten
millions Of dollars.
| Mr.. Howard said Texas has no. asked money
she asks nothing but teruory. ! iinnk ex,
,remely questionable whether she Will accept OF
the ten millions
Mr.. Glddincs-I hope sie gen,lemans doubts
will be realized. WssAot the voice Of Texas
heard in the Senate IKE the daughters of the
horse ieech, crying Give! give! II is TO make
Tvs to pay trib.te to Texas, and tax the Free
States ar her beneht II Iexas comPels US to
~, zen millions, may not New York make Us
ssy thirty millions? II the Territory belongs
Texas, let her have il. Ii to the United States
maintain it. 1t was nothing but weakness which
induced the President to recommend this meas
ure. The North will MT uniteii Their ener-
gies are paray z ID, aud some are false.
Mr.. Jones made good the statements uttered
by him on a former occasion, and which were
controverted by Mr.. Bay5, that the estimates
of Goveroment amounted to ESQ, zoe, 600 for the
present fiscal year, including the expenses of the
Post Office. Estimating the population of the
United States at twenty millions, the average for
every individual of each class, SEX color, and
description is $2 so. The Government, he con-
tended, should be administered for twenty-five
millions, and he called on gentlemen to reform
the expenditures and pay strict regard 10 econ
omy.
Mr.. Johnson, Of Tenn. examined the Presid-
ent's message, who he said assumes menacing
attitude, when there was no law violated, aud no
case in which he can call out the troops to oper-
ate against Texas.
TUESDAY, Aug. 6.
Senaie.-The bill distributing the Public
Lands among the States in which they lay for
The use Of actual settlers thereon, was taken up
and Mr.. Walker made speech in its support,
after which it was postponed until Monday.
The California bull was then taken up.
Mr.. Davis of Miss. addressed the Senate in
opposition 10 its passage, warning the Senate Of
the serious and fatal consequences likely to fol-
low the contamination Of a measure so subver-
sive of the constitution and violstive of the
principles upon which our forefathers founded
the Union of these States. He felt that the fate
Of the Union hung upon this measure, which
enacted the Wllmot proviso in effect, though
not IN tOrnl--a trOvSo winch the Legislature
of Sovereign States had declared that they
would resist to the last In conclusion he warn
ed the Senate that they were about to plunge
into an abyss in which would lie buried all the
glories Of the past, and all the hopes Of the fu
tuse.
Mr.. Clemns stated the reasons which would
impel him to go against the bill. He would do
so first, because no census Of California had
been taken and there was no evidence before
the Senate that at the time of the adoption
of the Constitution of California her popu-
ation was sufficient 10 entitle her TO one
Representative in Congress. Aga II, that con-
stitution was formed and adopted under military |
and executive dictation, and for the purpose Of
excluding the people OF one hall the states of
the Union from participating in the benefits of
the new acquisitions.
After some further remarks relative to the |
propriety of resistance to this measure, he de- |
clared himself ready 10 perform Whatever acts
his state might require Of him. II she directed
him to resist it in other fields he was was ready |
to obey her, no matter what he mandate. III
this wae treason, he was traitor and intended
to continue SUCH
Mr.. Houston defended the vote which he
should give in favor Of the bill. He pictured
the evils of dsunion, and secuted all idea Of
ruch result and ar0ued the DrODvietv and iusticc