The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-02-19
Che AlioNlrburp Register.
Middlebury, Feb. 10, 1850.
Doings at Washington.

The joint resolution relating to the collection
OF the Customs, it will bc seen, after several
days discussion in the Housc,was finally amend.
cd SO rs TO make the appropriation for half the
present fiscal year, 81 $50 oo,-suspending al
So the restrictions on the salaries Of officers in
California and Oregon, and so amended, pass.
cd on Tuesday, 10 to 1903. This is far from
siIording the required relief to the Treasury De.
psrtment--should tic Senate concur-still it is
erelief, and will allow the Department to re-
turn, in the main, to its former system, which
ia the only one, manifcstly, that the country can
permanently tolerate.
The vote on receiving petition for dissolv-
ing the Union, presented by Mr. Hale, is worthy
Of notice. l, was just rebuke on those who
insultingly called upon Senators to violat. their
oath, by trampling under foot the Constitution
which they had socmuy sworn to support
But three were in favor Of its reception, 10 ffy
against it.
1t will be remembered that, on the Ah instant,
the resolution of Mr. Root, providing for ter
ritorial government, excluding Slavery in all
the United States territories east of the limits
Of California $50 the resolution was ultimately
modified TO read, was laid on the table. by 80
majority. This is regarded, in some quarters
very enormously, certainly, although VIC ap.
prove the course Of the Representatives from
TINS State in voting against the motion TO lay
on the tabe-as virtual abandonment Cf the
Wilmot Pro,iso Ii was undoubtedly thought
by those who voted to postpone this resolution,
that II was i'll tined tina; the manner Of its in
PRODUCTION, with the avowed object Of comve7i,g
Northern members to face the music, was in.
tolerably oSerhcaring and insuliing-and that
1t was well to wait and see what ro'm.ta,v ac.
ton wouldtc taken by the committees appoint.
ed by Cobb, for which both wings Of the On
position are directly or Indirectly responsible.
1t was also thought by maryland justly, too,
-,hct the Recommendation Of the President to
wait for the presentation Of State Constitutions
by California and New Mexico was, all things
considered, the surcst and most satisfactory
method OF settling this vcxcd question. in &c.
c0rdance with the fixed views and determination
Of the North. Such being the case, we do not
any means as the event will provc-an aban.
donmcnl OF the ground hitherto occupied by the
North.
The great question Of the session-lhe adms
lion of California MS n Statc-has at last been
taken up by both Houses in good earnest. The
debates Of the last two or three days show
plainly enough where the great majority OF
Southern representatives will be found on this
subiect-hat they regard it as surren 'erng all
the North have ever asked, should that State
L. admitted into the Union with its present
Csrssss,isa Just 50 the North regard it-and
We lave little doubt that the free principles for
which we have cohtendod will triuacphantly
prevail The debate will undoubtedly be pro.
tracted for weeks, before final adjustment Of
the qucs,ion-hut it il matter Of congratula-
ton that the subject has been entered upon
and that final settlement, at no very remote
day, lie inevitable