Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-05-08
THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS.

passage through both Houses of Con
gross of the Kansas bill as reported
from the Committee of Conference. The
agreement was Of course arrived at by
a compromise" The report was sign
| ed bv Hunter and Green Of the Senate
and English and Stephens of the House
and undoubtedly commended itself t.
the South by the disscntof Seward, anc
Howard, the Black Republican members
of the Committee.
The report seems to have been adopt
ed by a united Southern vote in both
Houses of Congress.
We give the principal features of the
bill reported by the Committee. 1t is
entitled "a bill for the admission Of Kan
sas," and starts out with a preamble re,
cognizing the Lecompton Constitution as
| Republican in form, but dissents to the
ordinance thereof, which claims the
| right Of Kansas to tax the United States
lands within her limits, but proposes to
relinquish such right when Congress a.
erees to certain other conditions in said
ordinance. The preamble closes by say
ing: "and whereas said ordinance is not
acceptable to Congress, and it is desira-
BILE to ascertain whether the people of
Kansas concur in the changes in said
ordinance hereinafter stated, and desire
admission into the Union as a State as
herein proposed"
Then follows the first section of the
act, which contains the substitute for
the original ordinance. threads:
Be it enacted, 9c., That the State Kan
sas be, and is hereby, admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the orig
inal States i'll all repects whatever, but
upon the fundamental condition prece-
dents, namely: that the question OF ad-
mission with the following proposition
in lieu Of the ordinance framed at LIE
compton be submitted to a vote of the
people of Kansas, and assented to by
them or a majority of the voters voting
at an election to be held for that purpose
namely: that.th following propositions
be, and the sam are hereby, offered to
the people of Kansas for acceptance or
rejection, which, if accepted, shall be
on the United States and upon
the said State of Kansas, to-wit: First,
that sections number sixteen and thirty
six in every township of public lands in
said State, or wherQeither Of said sec
tions or any part thereof has been sold
or otherwise disposed of, other lands
equivalent thereto and as contiguous as
may be, shall be granted to said State
for the use of schools. Second, that
seventy-two sections of land shall be set
apart and reserved for the support OF a
State University, to be selected by the
Governor of said State, subject to the
approval of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and to be appropri
ated and applied in such manner as the
Of said State may prescribe
for the purpose aforesaid, but for no
other purpose. Third, that ten entire
sections OF land, to be selected by the
Governor of said State, in legal subdi-
visions, shall be granted to said State
for the purpose Of completing the public
buildings or for the purpose Of others at
the seat of government, under the direc-
ton of the Legislature thereof. Fourth,
that all salt springs within said State,
not exceeding twelve in number, with
six sections Of land adjoining, or as
may be to each, shall be granted to said
State for its Use, the same to be selected
by the Governor thereof within one
year after the admission Of said State,
and, when so selected, to be used or dis
posed of o. such terms, conditions and
as the Legislature may d.
rect: Prorided::, That no salt spring or
land, the right whereof is now vested
in any individual or individuals, or
which may hereafter be confirmed or adj
to any individual or individuals,
shall by this article be granted to said
State Fifth, that FIVE per centum of
the net proceeds of sales of all the pub
lands lying within said State which
be sold by Congress after the adj
mission of said State into the Union, az
ter deducting all the expenses incident
to the same, shall be paid to said State
for the purpose Of making public roads
and internal improvements, as the Leg
i~slature shall direct: Propided, Thefore-
going propositions herein offered are on
the condition that said State of Kansas
shall Y interfere with the primary
disposal of the lands of the United
States, or with any regulation which
Congress may find necessary for secur-
ing the title in said soil to bona fde pur-
chaSerR thereof: and thai. M Il x.shau