Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-07-05

hundred thousand acres Tor tho use OF
schools, there would be few vacant or un-
occupied tracts of land that would be
good for anything, after 10000 settlers
had seized on them
At three o'clock, without concluding,
4 1fr. Soule yielded the floor, and the bill
was postponed till tomorrow.
After spending some time ia Execu
tive session the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MI. Garter proposed a resolution which
was agreed to, instructing the committee
on commerce to inqnire into the expedi-
ency of providing law compelling all
craft carrying passengers and navigating
the waters Of the United States, or sail
| ing under the authority of the United
States, to be prov.d d with ample and
.suitabls resources of escape to passengers
in case of accident by fire or otherwise;
and further to INQUIRE into the expedien-
cy ofmaking certain custem house officers
inspectors, to carry out any law in pur-
ssuance fthis resolution; and that said
scommittee report by bill or otherwise.
On motion of Mr.. Inge, the rules were
suspended, and the House resolved it
self into committee of the whole (Mr.
Richardson in the Chair and resumed
the consideration of the Bounty Land
Bill.
The discussion was of great length.
The committee rose at o'clock, with
out having adopted a single amendment,
and the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, the 25th
instant, Mr. Soule resumed his remarks.
He reviewed the Spanish laws regulating
the mining interests, cotendinG that unles
Congress specially provided with Califor-
mia respecting the rights of the united
States in those mines, upon her admission
into the Union California would have all
the rights of absolute sovereignty over
those mines and the public domains.
That California onco sovereign State,
she had reserved to herself all the rights
OF ofsovereignty which she had not previ.
ously given away. He maintained that
the provisions in the bill, as reported,
were wholly inefficacious to preserve the
rights of the United States.
He said the hope was held out by the
bill that California would hereafter make
the proper cession. He then read several
portioNs of the debates in the California
convention, to show that the impression
was prevalent there that the public do
main would be the property of the State
of California,
! He next adverted to the question of
restricting the boundaries of California.
He said that he would maintain the three
following points: First, that the present
boundaries of California were extravagant
as compared with those of any State ad-
mitted into the Union since the formation
of thA constitution. Secondly, that her
present Boundaries were, in the geograph-
ical sense of the term, unnatural. Third
ly. that the boundaries of California were
and that when this question
shall be removed from the mist thrown
around It by the agitation of the other
questions discussed at the present day,
the Senate, he thought, would see that
to admit her with such boundaries would
be impolite.
He then read from the debates in the
COuHCIltiOh III SVIilOTula 10 SNOW tNaC the
present boundaries were adopted because,
as was said in those debates, no territory
should be left for Congress to legislate
upon; that the slavery question should be
decided by them, and nothing further left
for agitation in Congress. He said thet
the four southern districts which were OPP
posed to State Government we, inclu-
ded in those boundaries, against the will
of the resident inhabitants, and because
they were told that unless they did so
they would not be admiLtedsas a State.
He read at large from these debates, to
maintain his propositions. He read a
statement of the area in square miles nf all
the States admitted into the Union, to
show that the average area Of each was
10000 square miles, while the extent of
California, as contemplated by her pres
ent boundaries, was 153, ,00C square miles.
He read also from the debates to show
that even in the convention in California,
the geographical features OF the State
were unshapely and inelegant. He read
from the works Of Fremont to show that
the cOuntrv south of SiarYa Nauada xyoo