The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-06
Washington, Tuesday, August 6, 1850.

Mr.. ATCHISON. Will not the effect Of the
amendment, if adopted, be that, il these commits
sioners shall fail TO assemble, or if they agree on
terms, their action shall be rejected either by
Texas or the United States, then the bill will be
the Rio Grande,
Mr.. PEARCE. Think until the 4h of March,
1851.
Mr.. ATCHISoN. That is sufficient for me.
understand its operation and effect will be this,
and so l presume every Southern man will under
stand it. II is that, in either of those contngen-
cies, full possession shall be taken on the 4th OF
March, 1851, in derogation Of all the rights of
Texas there. l would AS soon vote for the Will
mot Proviso at once as this proposition
Mr.. PEARCE. do not understand the effect
of this amendment the senator from Missouri
does. II supposes that, if the recommendation OF
the commissioners shall not receive the assent OF
both parties, that some further Legislation will be
necessary, and it proposes to reserve time for that
purpose.
MIR. BERRIEN. understand that the effect
of the amendment Of the senator from Maryland,
il retained, is to postpone the operation OF this
BILL so far regards the Territorial Government,
until the 4th of March, 1851, with view to give
time intermediately for the adjustment Of the ques-
ton But if the adjustment does not take place,
of course it will be in our power, as well as our
duty, to provide for any operation of the bill that
will be consistent with fair adjustment of the
question and the rights Of Texas.
Mr.. DOWNS. l desire to ask the mover OF
this amendment, that, supposing this Territorial
Government should 90 into operation by the 4th
Of March, 1851, what would be the boundaries OF
New Mexicoi
Mr.. FOOTE. They are not specified In the bill.
Mr.. DOWNS. That's the reason make this
inquiry. If this bill goes into operation at that
time. under the circumstances supposed, what will
be the limits of New Mexico Does any body
know? The original bill fixed the boundaries
but that has been stricken out, and now we are
left in the dark, and establish governments with
out d knowledge of their location'
Mr.. BERRIEN. The pending amendment is
to strike out the limitation of tme-that the Ter
rtorial Government shall not so into operation on
the 4th Of March, 1851
The question being taken on Mr.. Underwood s
motion to strike out, it resulted as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Benton,
Butler, Chase, Clemens, Davis, of Massachusetts,
Davis, of Mississippi, Douglas, Ewing, Hale,
Houston, Hunter, Jones, Mason, Morton, Rusk,
Sebastian, Shields, Soule, Turney, Underwood,
Walker, Winthrop and Yulee--25.
NAYs-Messrs. Baldwin, Berrien, Bradbury,
Bright, Cass, Clarke, Clay, Cooper, Dawson,
Dayton, Dickinson, Dodge, of Wisconsin, Dodge,
Of Iowa, Downs, Felch, Foote, Greene, Hamlin,
King, Mangum, Miller, Norris, Pearce, Phelps,
Pratt, Seward Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Upham,
Wales, and WhItcOmb--32. 8.s#a
Mr.. YULEE. / move to strike out from the
al .endment of the senator from Maryland, what
is now the 18th and 40th sections of the bill, which
is all that which relates to Texas.
The PRESIDENT. That is out and the pro-
position is to fill the blank with the amendment
Of the senator from Maryland.
Mr.. YULEE. / am aware Of that. The SEN
ator from Maryland moves to strike out from the
22nd section to the end of the bill, inclusive.
NOV tn nIpno mt hv ctr ont
from it the two sections that relate to Texas.
M. BADGER. ! shall be glad to hear that
portion Of the bill read which it is proposed to
strike out
The PRESIDENT The Senator from Florida
proposes to strike from the amendment, as offered
by the senator from Maryland, that portion which
embraces the Both section as it is proposed to be
modified by the amendment of the senator from
Maryland. Is that the motion of the Senatori
Mr.. UNDER WOOD. think we are not in
a condition to legisate. l move that we now ad-
Mr.. FooTE. call the gentleman to order for
rejecting upon the body.
Mr.. CHASE. call for the yeas and nays on
the motion to adjourn.
The yeas and nays were not ordered and the
vote being taken, resulted as follows: % in the
affirmative, and % in the negative. So the Senate
refused to adjourn.
The PRESIDENT. The proposition of the
ton, as proposed to be modified by the senator
from Maryland.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. think the senator from
Florida must be under misapprehension. The
motion of the senator from Maryland to
strike out all that related to New Mexico and all
that related to Texas.
Mr.. YULEE. know that. My motion is to
amend the amendment Of the senator from Mary
land. #E.t
The PRESIDENT. The Chair understands
the motion to be to strike out that portion which re-
lates to Texas from the amendment of the senator
from Maryland. aG
Mr.. SEBASTIAN. ask that the whole
amendment proposed be read.
1t was read accordingly.
Mr.. YULEE. My original motion was to
strike out the 39th and 10th sections, all that
relates to Texas.
The PRESIDENT. The question is on strik-
ing out the 39th section, with that portion of the
section Just read which fixes the time when the
territorial government shall go into operation.
Mr.. SEWARD called for the yeas and nays,
and they were ordered, and being taken resulted
as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Baldwin, Barnwell, Benton,
Butler, Chase, Clarke, Davis, of Massachusetts,
Davis, of Mississippi, Dayton, Dodge, of Wiscon-
sin, Ewing, Greene, Hanlin, Houston, Hunter,
Mason, Miller, Morton, Phelps, Rusk, Sebastian,
Seward, Smith, Soule, Turney, Upham, Walker,
Winthrop, and Yulee-29.
NAYs-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Ber-
rien, Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Clay, Clemens,
Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge, of Iowa, Douglas,
Downs, Felch, Foote, Jones, King, Mangum,
Norris, Pearce, Pratt, Shields, Spruance, Stur-
geon, Underwood, Wales, and Whitcomb--26.
So the motion to strike out was agreed to.
The following was embraced in the portion
stricken out:
''That the President OF the United States be and
he hereby is authorized, by and with the advice
and consent Of the Senate, to appoint three com
missioners, who shall have power to agree, with
such commissioners may be appointed under
the Legislative authority of the State of Texas,
upon the territory properly included within and
righifully belonging to the State Of Texas at the
time Of her annexation to the United States, or at
any period since that date, and 10 define and es-
abIish the limits of the same, IL they shall find it
practicable to do So and, they shall be una
BILE to agree upon the true and legitimate boundary
of the State of Texas, they are hereby authorized
to agree upon a convenient line of boundary be-
tween the territory Of the United States and the
Of at he