The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-24
The question va, then taken, aud the result

| The question was then taken aud the result
| was:
YEAs-Messrs- Badger, Baldwin, Bell. Bradbu
ry, Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke, CLAW, Cooper
Dayton, Dickinson, Dodge of Iowa, Douglas
t'eIch, Green. Hamlin, Jones, Mangnm Miller,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Upham, Wales
and Winrhrop-32
NAYS Messrs Atchison, BarnwelI, Benton,
Perrien, Butler, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson
Downs, Ewing, Hunter, King, Mason, Morton,
Pearce, Rusk, Soule, Turney, Whitcomb, and
fulee-l9.
30 the amendment was agreed to.
MIR. WALKER then renewed his motion to
strike out all after the fourth section of the BILL so
as to limit II exclusively to the admission of Cali
lorna, and on this he called for the and nays;
which were ordered.
Mr.. PEARCE moved TO amend the amendment
by striking out from the 22d to the 18th sections
The PRESIDENT The proposition is to
strike out all that which relates TO New Mexico.
MIR. PEARCE. Yes, sir and may as well
state my reasons for it now
Debate ensued, in which Messrs. PEARcE and
CLAY took part.
Mr.. PEARCE, in explanation of his amend
ment, reminded the Senate, that, on the motion of
the senator from Georgia Mr.. DAwsoN1 the
amendment of the senator from Maine Mr. BRAD
BURY was amended to provide that until such
time as the boundary line between the State of
Texas and the territory of the United States be
agreed to by the Legislature the State Of Texas
and the Government Of the United States, the ter
rtorIal government authorized by this act shall
not go into operation east of the Rio Grande, nor
shall any State be established for New Mexico
embracing any territory east OF the Rio Grande.
From this he foresaw consequence which he
was not willing to sanction. Already indications
were visible. IL had already been claimed that
this was an abandonment to Texas of all the
country east of the Rio Grande, and knowing as
| he did how the slightest acuuiescense would be
used to sustain the title of Texas, he was unwil-
| ling to give any sanction to an amendmen t that
might be so construed. But in addition to this, he
did not see the necessity of, providing a govern
ment for a small portion of New Mexico, and
leave the most important part without any govern
ment, or subject to military domination He did
not desire to prevent the organization OF the ter
ritory of New Mexico, and, if he succeeded in
this motion, he intended to move to insert the pro-
visions Of the bill which were stricken out yester-
day, and, IN lieu of the amendment of the senator
from Georgia, to offer another.
Mr.. CLAY viewed this as an attempt to destroy
one OF the most valuable features of the bill-the
adjustment Of the troublesome boundary question.
| n regretted 1t the more, inasmuch as amendments
were contemplated to suspend the operation of
The territorial provision on both sides Of the river
until the list of April, though in its present shape
| he did not think il was liable to the objections
which had been urged against it.
Atter a brief discussion between several Sena-
tors ~ tfs t- Ar
Mr.. PEARCE modified his motion so that it
proposed to strike out all Of the bill relating to
New Mexico as amended and then to reinsert
those provisions, with the exception Of that por-
uon which was inserted yesterday on the motion
of Mr.. DAWSON, and to substitute in lieu thereof
the words =
"Ihe territorial government of New Mexico,
authorized by this act, shall not go into operation
until the 4h of March, $751;
The debate was continued by Mr.. RUSK and
others.
ment which at his instance had been made in the
tenth section, extended to the 23d, so as to
strike out the words, 'nor establishing nor pro-
hlbltlng African slavery"
TO BE CONTINUED. ft