Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-09
Territorial Governments.

Asmuch has been said with reference to
the bill introduced in the House Of Represen.
tavives by Mr.. Morris, of Illinois, which pro
vides for the election of the Territorial off.
GERS by the actual inhabitants Of the Terri
tory, we give copy of the bill below, that
our readers may jrdge of it for themselves:
bill for an net granting to the people of the sew
eral organized Territories Of the United States
the right to provide, through their respective
legislatures, for the appointment or election of
their governors, judges and all other Territori-
al officers, IN such mode and manner as said
Legislatures may by law determine.
SECTION /. BE 1t enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That the people
of the several organized Territories Of the United
States be, and they are hereby, authorized and
empowered to appoint or elect their governors,
judges, and all other Territorial officers, in such
mode or manner as their respective Legislatures
may by law determine and to define their pow
ers and prescribe their duties: Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall be so construed as
to Interfere with the rights of the existing officers
in said Territories, those that may be hereafter
appointed by the President, to hold their respec-
tive offices until their successors are appointed or
elected, and qualified in pursuance to the law of
said Territories.
SEC. g. The people of the Territories hereafter
organized by act of Congress shall be vested with
the same right and power of appointing or elect
ing their governors judges, and all other Terrific
rial officers, and defining their powers and pre-
scri6ng their duties, which by the provision of
the foregoing section, are conferred on the people
OF the Territories now organized
Sec. 3. That all suits and causes of action in
the said Territories arising under the Constitution
and laws of the United States shall be tried at
such times and in such manner, as Congress may
by law provide.
Sec. 4. That the people of any Territory of the
United States now organized or which NAV be
hereafter organized, are hereby authorized and
empowered to call Convention and frame Con-
stituton preparatory to admission into the Union
as State, in such manner as their Legislature
may by law prescribe Provided, That applica-
ton for such admission into the Union shall no
be made until the population of such Territory
snail be sufficiently numerous to entile it to one
Representative in the House of Representatives
on the basis OF the apportionment Of representa-
ton established by Congress for the several
States: And provided, further, That no such ap-
plication shall be received or entertained by Con.
gress until the Constitution framed for said Ter
ritory shall be submitted to the people thereof by
direct vote, for their approval or rejection.
and shall have been approved by majority OF
the legal voters of said Territory; And provided
further, That nothing herein contained Shall ope
rate against the immediate admission of Kansae
and Oregon into the Union
SEC. 5. All acts and parts Of acts coming in
conflict with this act shall be, and the same ar,
hereby, repealed.
The clause requiring Constitutions to be
submitted to the people, is no doubt very OBJ
jectionable to Lecomptonites and Federalists