The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-05-16
Report Of the Comprsnise Commits. !

Report Of the Comprsnise Cemniitoe. -,
I Mr.. clay. Chairman of the Con y
mise Commitiee. read the report ~
Senate on Tuesday last. II II yolus3Ss
nous document and occupied the tine Of
the Senate more than one hour In re,d;..
1t. Ii does not meet with that uu.nimit1
OF feeling on the part of Senators vh;ek
II should do, in order to meet with suec.es
but may possibly pass by a meaers n..
jority. The following is an ,bs,r.e, OF
its PROVISIONS
! lst. The Committee sSe unansaops,
OF opHion, that new States nav 3.
formed out of Texas, under the ,ernyI
the compact entered into by the United
States, In the resolu,ieas Of annexation.
anu that when they are 80 formed, they
nave clear and undoubted rieh, to be
admitted into the Union as equal Ssases,
but the Committee do not think that aoy
plan tor the formation of the new S4s,ea
Out OF Texas, should be originated kv
Congress, bot should be left TO the peopim
OF Texas; also. that such new States sho,d
be admitted without any such objection on
account of the exclusion or permlssion Of
slavery.
I'd. In considering the question of the
admission OF Californis, majority of the
COMMITTEES are Of opinion that every ir-
regularity in the proceedings antecedent
10 her application for admission into the
y Union should, in consideration of the
many circumstances of her position, be
overlooked. and recommend the passage,
OF the bin reported by Mr.. Douglass, for.
her admission into the Union as State
3d. The Comnittee also think il quite
necessary that Territorial Government
. .ould be furnished for the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico. They had been
abandoned, were inhabited by mixed
and unusually varied population, and were
equa ly as deserving of proper govern.
ment, and should have them speedily
They were unfit, at present. for State
and the Committee recon-
mend that the admission of California and
the bill pro iding Territorial Governments
he incorporated In one measure and pass,
ed together as one measure. They also
that the bills be passed with.
out the Wllmot Proyiso being attached TO.
the Territories They consider the Viii.
mot Proviso. as applied TO these Terrific.
RES. mere abstraction.
4th. The Committee report. az an ad.
ditional section to the California and Ter
rfiorfat bill, a provision determining ths-
boundaries of New Mexico and Texas,
as follows;-fhe boundary of Texas
shall be the Rio Grande up to point go z
miles north OF Ell Paso Del Norte, themes.
the line shall run due north along the one:
hundredth parallel of longitude till il.
,ka pa.f e
longitude shalt be tie eastern boundary Of
New Mrxico-this line includes within
New Mexico the town of Santa Fe and -
large portion of the disputed territory. for
which the bHf proposes to pay Texas
yearly inieFest-,Ae principal to be paid
at the end of fourteen years. 1t is sup
posed that the ssm agreed upon will be.
frum SIX ts ten millions.
5th. The Comnittee report a section
to be added TO Msson's bill, in relation to-
fugitive slaves It provides. that every
before he goes into another State.
to recover his slave, shall 60 before some
cotnPeient tribunal and establish the fact
Of eloPement of property, and of descriP-,
lion OF slave, and with these facts attested
by competent record, and upon present.
ing them to an officer, the slave shall be-
rendered up TO him. Also, iha, if a slave.
declares his freedom, he shall have trial
for his freedom On return to the State froIn
which he has escaped.
Sth. That slavery ought not to be abol-
lshed in the District of Columbia.
7th- Fhe majority Of the Committes
report a bii4 for the suppression of the.
slave trade in the District of Columbia.
upon the model of the law lately enforced
LIZ MARYLAND