The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-20
The Business he fore the House.

Yesterday, IN the House OF Representatives,
MIR. BRowN, of Indiana, moved'to suspend the
rules, with view to offer resolution making
the following bills the special order OF the day
for Thursday next, in the order in which they
are enumerated, viz: The bill establishing
territorial government for New Mexico; the
bill for the adjustment of the Texas boundary;
the California bill; and the bill providing
territorial government for Utah.
The motion failed-yeas 81, nays %. Mr.
AsHMUN then moved to suspend the rules for
the purpose of offering a resolution making the
same bills the special order for to-day, and con
tinuing their consideration until disposed of, in
the order in which they came from the Senate,
VIZ The bill providing territorial government
for Utah the Texas Boundary bill the Cali
tornia bill; and the bill establishing terrific
rial government for New Mexico.
On this motion there was tie vote-04 to "a.
A vote of two thirds is required to suspend the
rules.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union on the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriations bill, with dis
position, as it appeared, to proceed with that
bill until it should be finally passed.
| 1t is believed that the Texas Boundary bill
could 4 vote have been had upon it, would
have passed. Such is the opinion of gentle
men of judgment and experience in the House.
If ever there was question which, however
wide the difference of opinion existing in re-
gard to it, was susceptible of adjustment by
compromise, without any surrender of princi-
Piles on either side, this is most certainly one.
1t is a question of territorial right about
which the most eminent jurists and the wisest
and most distinguished statesmen of the day
entertain Numerically opposite opinions-some
of them holding the right of Texas to the
territory in dispute to be so clear that IL
ought not for moment to be questioned,
and others denying that right IN toto. Texas
threatens, and is -actually making prepare
tons, to assert her right by force Of arms,
while the Executive of the United States feels
constrained, by deep sense of his constitu-
tiona obligations, to resist also by force of arms,
such attempt ON the part of Texas, should
it be made. Under these circumstances,
what course do the obvious dictates of com
mon sense, wisdom, and patriotism, call upon
both Texas and the United States TO pur-
sue2 Manifestly, to settle the alarming con
troversy by amicable agreement between them
selves. And how can this be done except by
a compromise? This being the only mode
in which, it is evident, the dispute can be
amicably settled, is it possible that the House
of Representatives-the Senate having already
passed bill for its adjustment-will permit
that bill to be lost, because the boundary line
prescribed in it does not exactly suit the no
tions of membersl And this, too, in view OF
the imminent danger which hangs over the
country of a collision between the forces which
| Texas is now organizing TO send 70 Santa Fe
and the United States troops stationed there
We cannot allow ourselves to doubt for mo
ment but that the House of Representatives will,
at an early day, take up the Senate's bill and
pass it; and thus relieve the country from a
serious danger impending over it, and the pub
| lie mind from the painful anxiety which the
existence of that danger has produced within