Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
THE COMPROMISE BILL.
THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1850.

western and northern boundaries.
The pending question was on the amendment of Mr.
SouLE, as follows
After the word Government" in the title of the BILL in
sert the words " South California and strike out the first
second and third sections the BILL and insert the foowng
Be enacted Sc That soon as California SHALL have
passed in convention ordinance providing
Thst she renquises all title claim to tax dispose Of
in any 70 interfere with the primary disposal by the
United States of the public domain within her limits;
Thst she will nterpose her authority and power SO
to disturb impede any control which the United states
may deem advisable to exercise over such districts n he
mining regions, either discovered or to be discovered
hereafter may be included in lawful grant made to
private individuals to corporations prior the cesson OF
California the. United States;
That the ndsof the nonresidents shall be taxed
higher than those ofRssdents;
That the uavigable waters shall be open and free to all
citizens Of the United States those of Caonia included;
That the southern limits shall be restricted TO the Mis-
souri, eompremise line, SO deg 80 min north attudei)
And as she shall have produced to the President
of the United States satisfactory and authentic evidence sha
the terms forth have been fully and exactly complied
win the President the United States be and he is hereby
and requested without AIRY further action the
part of Congress- to issue mis- procamaton declaring that
Caorns andthat she shall thereupon be admitted into the
Union upon equal footing with the original States in all
respects whatsoever r1s
Sec O. Ben enacted Sc That such portion of the
nue. collected the ports of California remain unex
pended at the the issuing the Presidents prOcama
on Aforesaid shall be paid over to tho said State OF Ca
.lfornis.
sec s. Be ii enacted &C. That the Senator's and Repre-
sentatves before Congress for the said State of Ca
ornia shall be entitled to receive, and shall receive the
the Territory Oregon, from the day that the message of thu
President transmitting the constitution Of Cafoa
BE il enacted, Sc That the country lying be-
the so deg 50 min of north latitue and the boundary
line between Mexico and the United Stains established byVhe
treaty oGsadalupe Hdago, and extending from the Pacific
to the Sierra Nevada shall constitute Territory under the
Of ehe Territory South California, and shall be Organ
lied such under the provisions OF this bill applying the
Territory Of Utah. ehanging where they ought 10 be
changed all respects whatsoever, and SHALL when ready
able and willing to become State, and desiring to be SUCH
be admitted into the Unioa with without slavery, the
people thereof may desire and make known through their
constitution"
Mr.. WEBSTER. Mr. PresideB;, the amendment of the
honorable meberrom Louisiana Mr. SoUnE respects that
part Of the present bill which proposes the Immediate admis
sion of California into the Union State; and the amend
ment opposed to that immediate admission. proposes
the contrary, that the subject shall be referred hack the
people California that certain conditions and notifications
in the constitution Of California shall be proposed to them
and that if the people Of California in convention shall have
acceded such conditions and notifications then the Pres
dent of the United States shall Issue his proclamation
nouncing that fact and hereupou shall be admitted
into the Union a State.
The question therefore is, whether upon the whole, it
would be advisable under oil the circumstances Of the
case admit California now, to send her constitution
back agen and postpone future and indefinite period
her admission into the Union In my opinion, sir, it is
highly expeden admit California In my opinion
is highly expedient give her proper position in the
Unon and give her such powers shall enable her TO
Ievolve among the other orbs of system and really be-
that the settled Judgment of great majority of
the people Of this country. If there be question growing
Of these territorial acquisitions which there
be general Twill not say unanimous public opinion,
that under the proper admit
California into the Union whouurher delay She presents
hersefhee with sufficient population. She presents
stuon owhch, in general aspect asa republican consu
ton, can make objection. The is urgent and
pressing No State has appeared asking for adms
the Union un6er circumstances extraordinary and
striking have the oldest of presented
with such pecularites and singuaries. There is in the
history Of mankind, within my knowledge instance of
such extraordinary rush Of people for pvate enterprise
point the earths surface II has ieen represented
heretofore that there l5O 600 people in California
would that this very day there fifty sixty
thousand persons raveng the great plains between Mis-.
souri, and the Rocky Moutana, all bound to California.
Other thousands passing round Cape Horn other thou
sands again crowd press fill up, and han FILL up every
conveyance that will take them to and omrhe Ishmus So
that may be said, and truly said, that this very year will
add hundred thousand persons tothe population Of California
1t is the most striking within generation,
generation, as far respects private enterprise and
the extraordinary rush Of people given point upon the
eahs surface The capital Of the Territory is supposed
contain thirty forty thousand peoples LOO vessels have
already been sent tther $50 400 ships have been found
riding in the harbor Of San Francisco at the time San
Francisco the capital rs have already stated, contains
population of thirty forty thousand people. California
looks upon India, and China and Polynesia the West
we look upon Europe the East Now the question
is what to be done with California Sir, five years ago
happened 10 say public discussion, that perhaps
the time not far distant when there wod be established
beyond the Rocky Mountains and the shore of the sea-
great Pacific Republic Of which San Francisco would be the
capital overwhelmed by the appearance of the possible
fufhnent of that prophecy suddenly. And, sir that
the alternative, my judgment do not think safe lon-
ger delay the bringing of California into this Unon unless
gentlemen willing contemplate that alternative. Other
gentlemen have good Of information of the
opinion in California have; perhaps My nfor-
nation such, any rate that do not think it SAFE if
intend 10 bring her into the Union all to defer that
to another session of Congress- to any time beyond that
which is absolutely for the dispatch Of the business
OF her admission. Then, suppose, that that being the
general sentiment Of the country would also be the general
sentiment of this and the other house Of Congress that
that is eIpedient there insurmountabe obstacles
to bring California into the Union at and do
desand the intention of the author Of this amendment other
wise than hs if not for objections which be has pro-
pounded to the Senate he should be willing admit Caor-
MIA And the question lie, whether those objec
be kept out Of the Union, let the consequences be what they
may But if they insurmountable, then think,
though things may exist which might wish had been other
wse yet is Of SO much exigency and emergency
that we ought to admit California Let then
to that point and what these objections which have
been suggested by the honorable member from Louisiana
They divide themselves into classes. He says the
hrst place. that under the constitution of California and by
the bill unamended, there is sufficient security that the
United States will possess, enjoy CONTROL have the right
TO dispose of the put lie domain unappropated lands in
California That is the fret objection The second relates
to the boundaries Of California, which he says extrava
ganty large, In the first place in the second place.
raj and in the third impolc and unfit be made. Now,
sir he proposes remedy what he considers the first great
deficiency Of the BILL by sending back this constitution