Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-30

1he House refused, by vote of 80
IN the affirmative, to IO2 in the mega
tive, to go into the business on the
Speakers table.
In the Senate, on Thursday, Aug.
Is, on motion by Mr.. Mason, the
Senate proceeded to consider bill
No. 2S, in relation to fugitive slaves,
being the bill to provide for the more
etfectual execution of the third clause
OF the second section of the 4th ar
ticle Of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and
On motion by Mr.. Mason, it was
. Ordered, That said bill be made
the. special order for Monday next,
and every day thereafter until dis
posed of.
The reception and entering of the
protest of some Southern Senators
to the passage of the California bill,
came up for consideration.
The following clause was added
to the protest:
Because the admission of Cali
tornia as State into the Union with
out any previous reservation, assem-
ed to by her of the public domain,
might involve an actual surrender of
that domain to, or at all events,
places its future disposal at the mer-
cy OF that State, and as no reserva-
ton in the bill can be binding upon
her until she assents to it, as her dis
sent hereafter would in no manner
affect or impair the act of her adj
MIR. Badger, who yesterday de-
clared his intention to vote in favor of
granting the request asked by some
members of the Senate, of entering
protest against the passage of the
bill for the admission of California,
stated to-day, that the remarks of
the Senators from Maryland and
Louisiana, Downs and Pratt,) led to
more thorough examination of the
subject, and consequent change of
views. He now regarded that the
entering of this protest upon the
journal, would be establishing dan
gerous precedent. Mr.. b. then gave
his reasons at length for that opinion.
The question of the reception of
the protest, and of its insertion in
the journal, was further discussed by
Nessrs. Hunter, Butler, Cass, Davis
OF Mississippi, Tmney and Soule in
taver, and Messrs. Walker, Benton,
Pratt, Downs, Houston and Whit
comb against.
MIR. Cass was still of the opinion
expressed yesterday. Reflection,
and listening to the discussion of the
subject, had strengthened that opin-
ion. The entering of protest upon
the journal was not forbidden by Ike
Constitution. The Convention that
framed that Constitution left the SEN
ate to exercise it's own discretion in
this matter. He attached no impor-
tance to the mere entering upon the
journal of paper of this kind-the
Journal was not read by the people
at large. If this paper was of such
a character as to be productive OF a
vast amount of evil, it would not be
remedied by refusing an insertion of
1t upon the journal. 1t had already
been published, and would soon be
in the hands of the people ali over
the country.
Mr.. Davis, of Mississippi, thought
that more importance had been given
to the paper by its opponents than it
could possibly have attained if it had
been suffered quietly to be placed
upon the journal. He then, in a
mastery manner, spoke of the gen.
eral subjects connected with the pro-
test, and declared his firm attach
ment to a Constitutional Union.
Onmotion, the question of the re-
ception of the protest was laid on the
table yeas %, nays 10, as follows:
Yeas Messrs. Badger, Benton,
Bradbury, Bright, Chase, Cooper,
Davis, of Massachusetts, bod e, of
Wisconsin, Downs, Green, Hamlin,
Houston, Miller. Norris, Phelps,
Pratt, Smith, Underwood, Upham
and Winthrop-22.
Nays. MessFs. Atchison, Barn
we'll, Berrien, Butler, Cass, Davis, of
Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge, of To-
wa, Dickinson, Hunter, Mason. Nor.
ten, Rusk, Sebastian, Shields. Soule,
Sturgeon, Tuney, and Yulee--l9.
The bill to provide a territorial
government for New Mexico was ta-
ken up, the title amended and passed;
yeas ~, nays 10, as follows:
s Yeas m assrs AfchiaS,n Radoa,sl