The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-05-16

| On last Wednesday the Com tnittee, Of
Compounds on. the Slavery question,
through Mr.. Clay theig Chairman made a
lengthy reportto the lted States senate, in
which they adopt The Democratic doctrine
Of non interference. The following is an
abstract of the reporf.@
1st The committee are unanimously Of
opion, that new States may be formed out Of
Texas, under the terms Of the compact en-
tered into the United States, in the resolu-
tions Of annexation, - that when they
are so farmed, they havsa clear and un-
doubted right to be admitted into the Union
as equal States; but the commiUe do not
think. that any plan for the formation of the
new States out of Texas, should be origin
ated by Congress, but should be left to the
people of Texas also that such new States
should be admitted without any objection on
accoun, of the exclusion or permission Of
slavery.
I'd. In considering the question of the
admission of California, majority OF the
committee are of opinion that every irregu-
larity in the proceedings antecedent to her
application for admission into the Union,
should, in consideration of the many cir
cumstances of her position, be overlooked,
and recommend the passage Of the bill re-
ported by Mr.. Douglass, for her admission
into the Union as State.
Sd. The Committee also think it quite
necessary that Territorial Government
should be furnished for the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico. They had been a.
bandoned, were inhabited by mixed and
unusually varied population, and:were equal
ly as deserving of proper governments, and
should have them speedily.s They were un-
fit, at present, for State Governments, and
the Committee recommend that the admis-
sion Of California, and the bill providing
Territorial Governments be incorporated in
one measure, and passed together as one
measure. They also recommend that the
bill be passed without the Wilmot Proviso
being attached 10 the Territories. They con-
slider the Wilmot Proviso, as applied to these
hOiitoiiSS, q iHcic dpSiIdCliuU,
4th. The Committee report as an addi-
tional section to the California and Territori-
al bill, provision determining the bounda.
ries of New Mexico and Texas as follows -
The boundary of Texas shall be the Rio
Grande up to point 90 miles north of Ell
Paso Del Norte-thence the line shall run
due north along the one hundredth parallel
OF longitude "a. .... it strikes the Red River, and
! this line Of longitude 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 million o. dollars in stocks, at half
yearly inierest-,he principal 10 be paid at
the end of is years. II is supposed that the
sum agreed upon will be from six to ten
millions 4.
5th. The Committee report section to
be added TO Mason's bill, in relation to tugi-
tive slaves. 1t provides that every master,
before he go into another State 10 recover his
slave, shall go, before some competent tri-
bunal and establish the fact of elopement of
property, and of description of slave, and
with these facts attested by competent rec
ord, and upon presenting them to an officer,
the slave shall be rendered up 10 him. Also,
that if slave declares his freedom, he shall
have trial for his freedom on return to the
State from which he has escaped.
9Th. That slavery ought not to be abol-
ished in the District of Columbia.
7th. 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 Mary.
land
The report is very volumnous, and occu-
pied more than an hour in reading.
Several of the Committee gave notice
that they did not concur in all The sentiments
of the report Among these were Messrs
Cooper, Berien, Downs, Mangum, Mason
and Phelps