Butte record., 1854-05-27
Rejeo,ment OF the cadsden Treaty.

ReJectInent OF the Gadsden Treaty.
The Gadsden Treaty with Mexico, was de-
feated by the Senate in executive session, on
Monday April Is. 1t was said to have been
amended until very little of the original draft
remained The injunction of secresy has not
been removed and nothing definite as to de-
tails can be known. We have considered
it poor policy for the government to pay mill
ions Of money for an inconsiderable and COM
paratively worthless portion of territory. 1t
is paying too much for a chance to "whistle'
over desert, when we have better and more
central routes in our own territory. The
Millions paid for this strip of desert in our
estimation, would do much greater service in
building a railroad on some one Of the many
routes now engaging the attention Of the pub
lie Or, if not expended in that manner, it
will be found Of service in the treasury during
the commotion Of Europe. The Messilla Val
ley, and small addition to our Pacii; coast.
are the only valuable portions of territory
embraced in the cesson, for which it is pro-
posed to pay an amount of money vastly ex
ceeding their intrinsic value. 1t is believed
time and patience viii bring much larc :
tract Of Mexico knockinga at cur doors for adj
mission, if we do not enable the dictator to
establish an Empire by paying him huge prices
for comparatively WORTHLESS strips of territory.
If our government sets up Santa Anna now,
by purchasing the proposed strip, it will be
/ Sfab blicbiur praoadant hot loct al
Uncle Sans cash viii enable the dictator to
dispose Of territory, when, should it be left to
the natural course of events, We shall ulti-
mately attain the territory, without paying
our cash for it. We believe such to be the
tendency of the revolution now in progress at
, Acapulco, where the revoluhonists have al
ready succeeded in driving the dictator from
that department OF the government. The fol-
lowing is the vote by which the treaty was
rejected in the Senate:
AYEs.-Messrs. Atchison, Bell, Bright,
Brown, Butler, Cass, Clay, Dodge of Iowa.
Douglass, Evans, Fitzpatrick, Gwin, Hambin,
johnson, Jones of Iowa, Mallory, Mason,
Morton, Petit, Rusk, Sebastian, slidell, Stu
art, Thompson of New Jersey. Toombs and
Weller.
! NoEs-Measrs. Allen, Bayard, Brodhead,
Chase, Dodge of Wisconsin, Everett, Fessenden
Fish, Foote, Geyer, James, Seward, Shields
Sumner, Smith, Thompson of Dentucky. Wade
and Walker.
A motion to reconsider the rejection was
made on the 10Th and carried, and another
report was made in favor of ratifying it
Senator james, who voted against the treaty,
moving the reconsideration. Senators Jones
of Tennessee, Dawson and Toombs, who were
absent when the first vote was taken, were
present after it had been reconsidered, and
and would all vote for the ratification. A
change of two or three negative votes into
additional alternatives, will secure its ratiii-
cation; and its believed that the administra-
ton can secure that. A despatch from Wash
ingson to the New York Times says cit is
confidently asserted that Mr. Bells amend
meut to the Gadsden treaty, recognizing the
Sloo Grant, will be carried, and the Treaty
saved