The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-05-14
CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, May Z
IUsTUs.

III tne senate, the Dlil 10 eStdullsn
Board of Claims to settle accounts a.
gainst the United States, occup ed near
ly the whole of the day. An amendment
by Mr. Hale, that the Board shall not be
removable by the President, qualified by
Mr.. Douglass so as TO add by consent
of The Senate" was under discussion the
greater part of TIE day, AM it was not
finished at the adjournment.
In the House of Representatives, the
Census bill was taken up in Committee
of the Whole, and Mr.. Vinton's amend
ment providing for taking the next CEN
sus in accordance with the provisions of
this bill, unless it should be altered or
repealed before the first of January pre-
ceoing the next census, was adopted.
His next amendment, providing that The
House of Representatives shall hereafter
consist of 200 members, was also adop-
ied-72 to 6S--altcr much discussion
and many attempts to enlarge the num-
Der. Members admitted between the
appointments do no, come under its
provisions uulll another apporlionmcnt.
An amendment providing that the e.
lection for members Of Congress shall
be held on the same day throughout the
United States, was rejected.
The bill reported by a majority of the
Judiciary Committee, providing merely
for taking the census of inhabitants was
lost-50 1902. The Committee and the
greater part Of the amendments accept,
ed in Committee, were concurred in by
the House, aud Others were laid over tc
he taken up and voted upon another day
WEDNESDAY. May 8.
SENATE.-Mr. Jefferson Davis presented
a resolution of the Legislature of Mssssip
pi, in defence Of the proceedings in his Stat,
in relation 10 holding Southern Conyen
ton.
Mr. Clay read the Report of the Com
mittee of Thirteen. The report contain
the following points:
FTsi-The Committee are unanimousl
of opinion that new States NAV be formc'
out of Texas under the terms of the com
pact entered into by the United States i,
I the Resolutions Of Annexation, and thg
I when they are so formed they have a clea
and undoubted right to be admitted into III
Union as equal States; but the Commtle
/ do not think that any plan for the fornatio
' Of new States out of Texas should be orig
Y mated by Congress, but should be left to III
people OF Texas also, that such new State
, should he admitted without any objection o
account Of the Exclusion or Permission ,
Slavery.
c SecOnd-In considering the question
.. the Admission OF California, a majority
? the Committee are Of opinion that every j
is regularity in the proceedings antecedent
l. her application for admission into the III
IA ion should, in consideration Of the many ci
l. cumstances of her position, be overlook C
d and recommend the passage of the bill r
d ported by MIR. Douglass for her admissi,
~ into the ORION as State. But the Cor
y mlltee also think it quite as necessary tn
'r Territorial Governments should be furnish,
e for the Territories Of Utah and New Mes
20 co. They had been abandoned, were i
al habIted by a mixed aud unusually yari,
ID population, and were equally as deserving
IS proper governments, aud shoUld have the
a. speedily. They were unfit at present (
t. State Governments, and the Committee re
w commended that the bill for the admission
:" California, and the bill providing Territor
V Governments be incorporated in one me,
II ure and passed together, as one measul
b. They also recommend that the bills be pa
- ed without the Wilmot Proviso being attaC
w ed TO the Territories. They consider I
ne Wilmot Provso as applied to these Terri
We ries mere abstraction
MS Third-The Committee report as an I
tx ditional section TO the California and Ter
a torial bull provision determining the boz
cI diaries Of Nav Mexico and Texas as folio,
er The boundaries of Texas shall be the
IL Grande, up to a point 20 miles north of
b Ias0 del NOre-thcncc the line shall T