Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-05-10

/ Census BilI--an ACT WHICH Ougnt 10 nave
been passed long ago. One portion con-
tends that the government has no right to
do more than take an enumeration of the
number of inhabitants, while the other
! hold out for statistical information.
On the 9Th, Mr.. Clay, from the Special
Committee of Thirteen, introduced the
report of the committee, of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:
lst The Committee are unanimously
Of opinion, that new States may be formed
out of Texas, under the terms of the COM
pact entered into by the United States, IN
the resolution of annexation /: and that
when thev are so formed, they have a
clear and undoubted right to be admitted
into the Union as equal States but the
Committee do not think that any plan for
the formation of the new States out of
Texas, should be originated by Congress,
but should be left to the people of Texas
also, that such new State should be admit
ted without any objection on that account
of the exclusion or permission of slavery.
2. In considering the question of the
admission of California, a majority of the
Committee are of opinion that every IL
regularity in the proceedings anteeedent to
her application for admission into the
Union should, in consideration of the many
circumstances OF her position, be over
looked, and recommend the passage of the
bill reported by Mr.. Douglas for her adj
mission into the Union as State.
FI'bo Torny,itt-o al ,bioI- - 1,.;,o
necessary that a Territorial Government
should be furnished for the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico. They had been
abandoned were inhabited by mixed
and unusually varied population, and were
equally as deserving of proper govern
ments, and should have them speedily.
They were unfit. AT present, for State
Governments, and the Committee recon-
mend that the admission Of California and
the bill providing Territorial Governments
be incorporated In one measure, and passed
together as one measure. They also re-
commend that the bills be passed without
the Wilmot Proyiso being attached TO the
territories. They consider the Wilmot
Proyiso, as applied to these Territories, a
mere abstraction.
4. The Committee report, as an addi-
tional section 10 the California and Terri
torial bill, provision determining the
boundaries of New Mexico and Texas,
as follows The boundary of Texas shall
be the Rio Grande up 10 point 20 miles
north OF El Paso Del Norte, thence the
line shall run due north along the one
hundredlh parallelof longitude till it strikes
IL ID 4 Il, g i.
shall be the eastern boundary of New
| Mexico-this line includes within New
Mexico the town of Santa Fe and large
portion of the disputed territory, for which
the bill proposes TO pay Texas blank mil
lions of dollars in stocks, at halI-y yearly IN
terest-the principal to be paid at the end
of fourteen years. 1t Is supposed that the
sum agreed upon will be from SIX to ten
millions.
/ ). The Committee report section to
be addeti to Masons bin III relation to tu-
gitiye slaves. 1t provides that every mas
ter, before he goes into another State 10
recover his slave, shall go before some
competent tribunal and establish the fact
of elopement of property, and of descrip-
ton of slave, and with these facts attested
by competent record, and upon present
ing them to an officer, the slave shall be
rendered up to him. Also, that if a slave
declares his freedom, he shall have a trial
for his freedom on return to the State from
which he has escaped.
6. That slavery ought not 10 be abol-
ished in the District of Columbia.
7. The majority of the Committee re-
port bill for the suppression of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, upon
the model OF the law lately enforced IN
Maryland.
The report is very voluminous, and oc-
cupied more than an hour in the reading.
After some debate the California and
Territorial bills were ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Clay moved to print the bill for the
suppression of the slave trade.
Mr.. Phelps, one of the Committee, said
he did not agree with the Committee, ex-
cept on the conclusion to be drawn from
resolutions of the annexation Of Texas.
Mr.. Mason, one of the Committee, SAID
that he was so unfortunate as TO differ from
the Committee upon nearly all the ques-
tions reported upon by it.
Mr.. cooper sald ulat ne agreeu WIN
the Committee upon several points, but
differed on several others--partlcularly
with the reasons and arguments of the re-
port.
Mr.. Downs, one of the Committee, cx-
pressed his dissent from the report on all
the grounds, particularly upon admitting
California with her present boundaries.
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differed from the report of the Committee
on nearly all the points. lie could not
consent to admit California with herpresent
boundaries, or with two Representatives
i'll the House of Representatives