Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02

: He' e'e oooh dS possible, transmitted
TO the President o! the United States,
to be by him submitted to'Congress,
with such recommendations as the
circumstances, in his opinion; NAV
require Tor the approval and action OF
! Congress thereupon; and the said
agreement, when approved by the
| Congress OF the United States and
! the Legislature oithe State of Tex
as, shallbe obligatory upon the par
ties.
Mr.. Rusk gave notice that when
such amendment was offered, he
would move to amend it as follows:
Strike out all after the first word
that, and insert: the boundary ofthc
State OF Texas is hereby admitted t.
extend to the Rio Grande, as defined
in the statute oflmits of the late Re-
public ofTcXas, passed in the year
1886.
Mr.. Footc gave notice that he
would move to add TO the bill as am
additional section the following:
Ind 6o al .fufher enacted, That
nothing herein contained shall be SO
construed as to call in question the
validity and binding force of the Tex
an compact of annexation in any re-
spect whatever.
The Senate then proceeded TO the
consideration of the executive busi-
ness and shortly afterwards adjourn
ed.
The House of Representatives
were chiefly occupied in receiving
reports from standing committees
and the disposal of Senate bills onthe
Speakers table, several of which
were passed. -Balt. Sun.
IN the Senate on Friday 26thinst.
after some morning business, the com
promise bill was taken up--the
amendment cf Mr.. Rusk to the eau
GUS amendment, establishing com
MISSION, pending. Mr. Rusk's "a
mcndment provides that the State of
Texas is entitled TO all rights which
she possessed to the territory east of
the Rio Grande at the day of the rat
illcation ofthc treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo and since.
a discussion followed, in which
Mr.. Clay, MIR. Rusk, 1Tr. Pratt, Mr..
Hale MIR. Seward,.AIr. Dayton, Mr..
Houston and MIR. Mason took part.
MIR. Rusk' S amendment was then re-
Jecied-yeas IL, nays 25.
Mr. Mason moved substitute for
MIR. Bradbury's amendment, which
was rcjected-yeas 90, nays 90.
Mr.. Clay offered an amendment
resewlng the rights of both parties in
case the report Of the commission
should not be adopted.
Mr.. Butler opposed it.
MIR. Seward offered an amend
ment for admission of New Mexico
as state as soon as her constitution
is presented. and spoke at length in
tssupport.
MIR, Pratt oppose it, and insisted
that the Senator from New York
had avowed doctrines here for which
he ought to be turned out.
Mr.. Pratt asked the yeas and nays,
and they were ordered.
Mr., Dayton requested the Senator
from New York to withdraw his
amendment.
Mr.. Seward said that he would
vote Ter the proposition if he stood
alone. He proceeded to vmdicate it.
If ne was expelled, he should still as
sert that there was law higher than
human despotism-justice was above
law. He read the declaration of
rights of the State of New Mexico;
and stated that the Senator from Ma
ryland could not succeed in his op-
position to those principles.
Mr. Pratt said if the Senator im-
puted TO him opposition to those prin-
ciplcs, he was bound to say that
what he had undertaken to say what
was not true.
The Chair-Order.
MIR. Dayton opposed the amend
ment.
MIR. Davis was not prepared for
this theological disquisition, IIe
moved an adjournment.
MY CLAY, ooIloJ III