The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-16

10 dAnat H. This vicious voting and to be coadeupedI
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and thensslves reprimanded. What should b. done
70 ~ aud verdict under the same CIRCUMSTANCES
For one confess tho vice OF my vote. and lay he blame
those Who force into the false position Ia which
vote. In bill by herself, and Tor such line ~
propose. would vote Tsxss liberal sam IN ths con-
zion, and under these circumstsncsss not cent
Mr. President there is something overrung in the af
fairs Of men, which, in the end brnss out things right
and establishes the dominion OF truth and justice and
never this overriding superintendent more visible
than now. Here measures OF the most DESCENDANT
kind clapped together in BILL " violation of all par
liamsnsIy law. and to the ruin OF all lar legislation in
order to force carry others II il the
most fragrant OF parliamentary improperly which
the history Of our legislation has presented and o
Tebuke and crush it. here is the highest proof Of its
enOrmity which the wisdom OF could have devised
Votes nearly balanced this floor Tor against this
conglomerate bill There are two Texas votes on
this hoor, and they count four-two of and two
decide the fate of the bill and that they them
selves will he decided by the amount Of money to-
be voted TO Texas Sir, touch point which is still
ahead and which will not develop now When we
come to the filling up Of that mysterious blank,
fully guarded may be able to demonstrate that the effect
OF this experimentation Of bills, and that reservation OF
blank to be filed NJ the last moment, il open an auc-
ton upon the floor OF the Senate for the which are
carry through the omnibus bill, with all ills naasious
and heterogeneous contents. The filling OF the blank
may develop the fact that the admission of California
and the establishment OF governments for Territories
may depend upon the amount OF money to be paid o
Texas and il it does, it will present the highest evil
bills together which the history of American British
legislation has exhibited The bill is caught H.
grnnH dsiictotaken in the fact-sezed by the throat
and held up to public view-(and here Mr.. grappled
bill and held il up)in the very act Of perpeiratnx its
csime-in the very Of auconeerHg for pass
itself seze in the act and hold up to public oppro
brium and make il he required to- and is fate
to stand warning against all future conjunciions OF
ncOngruOug measures.
beg my friends from Texas LMessrs Housron and
RUsxl-and call friend without being ready to
stand for friend when needed beg them to take
what say in the sense | intend it. La their place,
should do they will dovoe for against the bill,
and all it's measures according the OF money
to 20 into the blank-and with the same sentiment Of pro-
found humiliation which they must feel And this shows
the enomiy Of such unnatural conjunctions OF discord
ant measures And here will argument but lately
hand, but which ought to have its weight on this
occasion. allude to the constitution OF Kentnck
and it's sauay provision against the runous practice OF
- sfct ,S. ,nry seven ., al,'e,e Two o.
CONTAIN BUT ONE SUBJECT AND THAT SHALL BE CLEARLY
EXPLAINED TITLE This is the sentiment OF Ken
lucky on the taal practice Of lacking aooagnous bills
against it, True, not bound by the provisions of
her constitution but we bound to respect the princ
pie OF morality in which i is founded and OF course to
condemn and epudiate this omnibus BILL freghted with
many subjects and dependent Tor its passage The amount
of money be voted of the public treasury the
State OF Texas
posed compact with Texas for the settlement OF her
western boundary: but proposed no mutual cessons
no exchange OF territory--no dlsmemberment Of New
Mexico-nO purchase OF the Santa Fe countryno giving
away our territory, and paying Texas to akeit My
proposals steered clear of all that folly and bunde This
s what proposed:
Art s. The ststs Of 7s1a: eede. 70 ths Unsd STATE. az
hr territory EXTERIOR 10 the ii1tfs 10 Chth she reduces herself
BY the first artias Of this compact
And the limits then proposed by me for her reduction
were the same now proposed-lO2o Of longitude,
md $40 of north latitude This Is all the cession that
Tnvu r.
all The territory, but OF all her territory her re-
duced limits. This avoided the consequences OF
from her Of the whole country including New Mexico
part OF Texas. Ii avoided the consequence oil holding
the Santa Fe country as purchase from Texas. II
avoided the coDseQu of admitting all that country 10
have been part ol the State OF Texas itavoded all the
tees bill would involve For such line as proposed
Ito Texas, cedng territory TO her accepting title TO
New Mexico from her, leaving New Mexico intact and
conforming ancient title and to present actual posses
sion would vote fifteen millions OF dollars for such
line as the committee PROPOSE not copper
The committee hnd excuse in my offer for theirs
Add here address my self especially 10 that mem
Der Of the committee mir. CooPER, Of Psansyponral
who seems have become Its organ at this point; and
say 10 him, and through him TO The committee, there Is
nothing the justify the other The two offers
ARE as different the from that sarsslArlla
apart, and infinitely disssmlar and
moi alike any to particulars, aud hdOng no 100 qSal
uss ~ Common" One begins twenty miles, IN straight
line above FL Paso-he other three hundred miles,
straight l,ne below IT, One 10 laniudinal-the other
longitudinal One runs east-the other north. One cuis
New Mexico in two-the other goes round her. One
csdes 1000 square miles OF New Mexico to Texasthe
other cedes nothing her One accepts the remainder OF
New Mexico cession from Iexasthe other holds her
as from the republic OF Mexico. One conforms
Ito tle present possession and geographical al
fnitixsthe other violates all these condons. One
The slave question: and It's double aspect OF actual
tension OF slavery into bali OF New Mexico and its
implied legal the other half-the other avoids
b0ln these questions by leaving both New Mexico and
Texas just they One admits the Texan laws aud
constitution to be IN force in all New Mexico east OF The
Rio Grande-the other asserts tne Mexican law to be in
toce there These OF the points oil difference be-
tween my offer and the committees, and which will thank
lhe senator from Pennsy vana Mr.. CoopEa1 TO recol
ect the next time he seaks on the subject and credit the
differences the right side Of the account But there
lie another difference, and OF another kind, befw cen
The two OFFERS and which may be fully developed when
we TO the work oil filling that coy and sensitive
blank, upon which the committee dumb, and the
knowing ones knowing My oder affects other
bill II is in bill by itself II is Texas
bsll and confined 10 Texas. The money proposes
ure--hzs no eec, The lie death OF California,
The two Ten0res. II carries votes for or against
them-exci,es stock lobbng interest for against
them 1t ia parliamentary BILL confined to its own sub
lec unmixea with any question: claiming declson on Its
own merits alone, and leaving all other bills TO be de
cided, in like manner upon their own merits This n q
particular difference between the committees bill and
mine in addition to all the other differences between
Them and which, at the proper time. shall more fully
develops and, the mean time. must remind the senator
from Pennsyvana not TO overlook these dIferenc es
when he comes again fory his intended vote for
riRcing New Mexico by reference TO my bill for savin
her.
half OF New Mexico TO Texas, and then purchasing the
rAhav half fron The only Ia