Mr. DAVIS of Indiana. A preamble and resolution reciting the Ordinance of Secession of South Carolina, and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire and report what legislation had been rendered necessary in consequence thereof. Mr. HOLMAN of Indiana, offered a series of resolutions, denying the right of secession, affirming it to be the duty of the General Government to collect the revenue and protect the public property, and instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire and report what legislation is needed to enable the Government to discharge its constitutional duty in these regards. Mr. FLORENCE of Pennsylvania, offered as a substitute for the report of the Committee of Thirty-three a series of amendments to the Constitution, in substance as follows: 15th. No State shall retire from the Unior without the consent of three-fourths of all the States. 16th. Giving full power to three-fourths of the States at any time to call a Convention to amend or abolish the Constitution. 17th. Declares articles 8, 9 and 10 of these amendments to be unalterable, unless by consent of all the slave States. Mr. FENTON of New York, offered as a substitute for the report of the Committee of Thirty-three a preamble and resolution, reciting the conflicting differences of opinion as to the causes of the present disturbances, and favoring the calling of a Convention of delegates from the several States. Mr. KELLOGG of Illinois. As a substitute for the report of the Committee, amendments to the Constitution in substance as 1st. Granting the right to hold slaves in follows: Prohibiting slavery in territory all territory south of 36° 30', and prohibit-north of 36° 30', and permitting it south of ing Congress and the Territorial Legislature from interfering with it therein, or in any other place within the jurisdiction of the United States, without the consent of all the slave States. 2d. Admitting States into the Union with a population equal to the ratio of representation, with or without slavery, as their Constitution shall prescribe. 3d. Prohibiting any alteration of the present basis of representation-declaring the slavery question to be one exclusively for each State; but with proviso that this amendment shall not be construed so as to release the General Government from its obligations to suppress domestic insurrection in any State. 4th. Giving the right to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia exclusively to the State of Maryland. 5th. Prohibiting any State from passing laws to obstruct the rendition of fugitive slaves. 6th. Granting the right of transit with slaves through all the States. 7th. Declaring all slaves brought into any State by permission thereof, and escaping, to be fugitives from labor. that line, and providing for its admission as States with a population equal to the ratio of representation, with or without slavery, as its Constitution should prescribe; prohibiting any interference by Congress with the subject in the States, either to abolish or establish slavery; affirmatory of the fugitive slave-clause of the Constitution, with amendment providing for compensation, and prohibiting the foreign slave-trade. By Mr. VALLANDIGHAM of Ohio, the following preamble and resolution : JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AMENDMENTS to the Con STITUTION. WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States is a grant of specific powers delegated to the Federal Govern ment by the people of the several States, all powers not delegated to it nor prohibited to the States being reserved to the States respectively, or to the people: and whereas it powers and jurisdiction at the expense of weaker Govern is the tendency of stronger Governments to enlarge their ments, and of majorities to usurp and abuse power and oppress minorities, to arrest and hold in check which tendency compacts and Constitutions are made; and whereas the only effectual constitutional security for the rights of minorities, whether as people or as States, is the power expressly reserved in Constitutions of protecting those protection, by checks and guarantees, is recognized in the Federal Constitution, as well in the case of the equality of rights by their own action; and whereas this mode of the States in representation and in suffrage in the Senate, as in the provision for overruling the vote of the President, and for amending the Constitution, not to enumerate other examples; and whereas, unhappily, because of the vast extent and diversified interests and institutions of the sev 8th. Prohibiting the African slave-trade, and also prohibiting persons of African de-eral States of the Union, sectional divisions can no longer scent from becoming citizens. 9th. Making all acts of any inhabitants of the United States tending to incite slaves to insurrection, penal offences. 10th. Making the county in which any fugitive slave shall be rescued, liable to pay the value thereof. 11th. Prohibiting slavery in territory north of 36° 30'. 12th. Giving returned fugitive slaves a trial by a jury in the place to which they shall have been returned. 13th. Provides for rendition of fugitives from justice. 14th. Declaring inviolable the rights of the citizens of any State sojourning in another State. be suppressed; and whereas it concerns the peace and stability of the Federal Union and Government that a division of the States into mere slaveholding and non-slaveholding sections, causing hitherto, and from the nature and necessity of the case, inflammatory and disastrous controversies upon the subject of slavery, ending already in present disruption of the Union, should be forever hereafter ignored: the recognition of other sections without regard to slavery and whereas this important end is best to be attained by neither of which sections shall alone be strong enough to oppress or control the others, and each be vested with the power to protect itself from aggressions: Therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemfollowing articles be and are hereby proposed as amend bled, (two-thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the ments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of said Constitution when ratified by Conventions in three-fourths of the several States: ARTICLE XIII. SEC. 1. The United States are divided into four sections, as follows: The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass. achusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and all new States annexed and admitted into the Union, or formed or erected within the Jurisd.cyon of any of said States, or by the junction of two or more of the same or of parts thereof, or out of territory acquired north of said States, shall constitute one section, to be known as the NORTH. The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscousin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas, and all new States annexed or admitted into the Union, or erected within the jurisdiction of any of said States, or by the junction of two or more of the same or of parts thereof, or out of territory now held or hereafter acquired north of latitude 36° 30' and east of the crest of the Rocky Mountains, shall constitute another section, to be known as the WEST. The States of Oregon and California, and all new States annexed and admitted into the Union, or formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any of said States, or by the junction of two or more of the same or of parts thereof, or out of territory now held or hereafter acquired west of the of the citizens of any of the States within either of the sections to migrate upon equal terms with the citizens of the States within either of the other sections, to the Territories of the United States; nor shall either have power to destroy or impair any rights of either person or property in the Territories. New States annexed for admission into the Union, or formed or erected within the jurisdiction of other States, or by the junction of two or more States or parts of States, and States formed with the consent of the Congress out of any territory of the United States, shall be entitled to admission upon an equal footing with the original States, under any constitution establishing a Government republican in form, which the people thereof may ordain, whenever such States shall contain, within an area of not less than thirty thousand square miles, a population equal to the then existing ratio of representation for one member of the House of Representatives. crest of the Rocky Mountains and of the Rio Grande, shall Report of the Committee of Thirty con-titute another section to be known as the PACIFIC. The States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North CaroHa, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, and all new States annexed and admitted into the Union, or formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any of said States, or by the junction of two or more of the same or of parts thereof, or out of territory acquired east of the Rio Grande and south of latitude 3630, shall constitute another section, to be known as the SOUTH. SEC. 2. On demand of one-third of the Senators of any one of the sections on any bill, order, resolution, or vote, three. January 14th, 1861. Mr. CORWIN reported a series of propositions, with a written statement in advocacy thereof, which closes with the remark that "the Committee were not unanimous on all the resolutions and bills presented, but a majority of a quorum was obtained on them all." Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS of Massato which the concurrence of the House of Representatives chusetts, made a separate report, which may be necessary, except on a question of adjournment, a closes thus: vote shall be had by sections, and a majority of the Sena- which the subscriber has arrived from a "The general conclusion to tors from each section voting shall be necessary to the passage of such bill, order, or resolution, and to the validity close observation of the action of the Comof every such vote. SEC. 3. Two of the electors for President and Vice Pres-mittee, is this: That no form of adjustment ideat shall be appointed by each State in such manner as will be satisfactory to the recusant States the Legislature thereof may direct for the State at large, which does not incorporate into the ConstiThe other electors to which each State may be entitled tution of the United States a recognition of shall be chosen in the respective Congressional districts lato which the State may at the regular decennial period this obligation to protect and extend slavery. have been divided, by the electors of each district having On this condition, and on this alone, will the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numeruns branch of the State Legislature. A majority of all they consent to withdraw their opposition to the electors in each of the four sections in this article estab- the recognition of the constitutional election Ii-bed shall be necessary to the choice of President and Vice President; and the concurrence of a majority of the of the Chief Magistrate. Viewing the matStates of each section shall be necessary to the choice of ter in this light, it seems unadvisable to President by the House of Representatives, and of the Senators from each section to the choice of Vice President by attempt to proceed a step further in the the Senate, whenever the right of choice shall devolve way of offering unacceptable propositions. upon them respectively. He can never give his consent to the terms demanded. SEC. 4. The President and Vice President shall hold their offices each during the term of six years; and neither shall be eligible to more than one term except by the votes "For this reason it is that, after having become convinced of this truth, he changed his course and declined to recommend the very measures which he in good faith had offered. It certainly can be of no of two-thirds of all the electors of each section, or of the States of each section, whenever the right of choice of President shall devolve upon the House of Representatives, or of the Senators from each section whenever the right of choice of Vice President shall devolve upon the Senate. SEC. 5 The Congress shall by law provide for the case of a failure by the House of Representatives to choose a Pres-use to propose as an adjustment that which ideat, and of the Senate to choose a Vice President, has no prospect of being received as such whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them respectively, declaring what officer shall then act as Presi- by the other party. Hence he feels it his deat; and such officer shall act accordingly until a resi- duty now to record his dissent from the deat be elected. The Congress shall also provide by law action of a majority of his colleagues in for a special election for President and Vice President in such case, to be held and completed within six months introducing any measures whatever for the frm the expiration of the term of office of the last pre- consideration of the House." eeding President and to be conducted in all respects as provided for in the Constitution for regular elections of the same officers, except that if the House of Representatives stall not choose a President, should the right of choice devolve upon them, within twenty days from the opening of the certificates and counting of the electoral votes, then the Vice President shall act as President as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The term of office of the President chosen the 4th day of March preceding such election. Mr. C. C. WASHBURN of Wisconsin, and Mr. MASON W. TAPPAN of New Hampshire, also submitted a minority report, concluding with this resolution: Resolved, That the provisions of the Constitution are ample for the preservation of the Union and the protection of all the material interests of our country; that it needs to be obeyed rather than amended; and that our extrication from our present difficulties is to be looked for in efforts to preserve and protect the public property and enforce the laws, rather than in new guarantees for particular interests, or com promises or concessions to unreasonable demands. Messrs. TAYLOR of Louisiana, PHELPS of Missouri, RUST of Arkansas, WHITELEY of Delaware, and WINSLOW of North Carolina, also submitted a minority report, arguing that the present difficulties can only be remedied by amendments to the Constitution, and suggesting the Crittenden proposition. If that cannot be adopted, they recommend a Convention of the States, with a view, if no adjustment can be effected, to peaceable separation, by providing for a partition of the common property of the United States, settling the terms on which the social and commercial intercourse between the separated States shall be conducted, and making a permanent arrangement with respect to the navigation of the Mississippi river. Messrs. BURCH of California and STOUT of Oregon submitted a separate report, sustaining the propositions submitted by Mr. CORWIN, but urging, in addition, the assembling of a National Constitutional Convention to consider the whole subject matter of the difficulties. Mr. NELSON of Tennessee made a report, arguing in favor of the establishment of the line of 36° 30', north of which slavery shall be prohibited, and south of which it shall be protected until any territory shall contain the population requisite for a member of Congress, when, if its form of government be republican, it shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide. He dissented from the proposition to admit New Mexico, opposed the proposed change of the fugitive slave law, and recommended the Crittenden proposition. laws of the United States, made in pursuance of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States for the delivery up of persons held to labor by the laws of any State and escaping therefrom; and the Senate and House of Representatives earnestly request that all enactments having such tendency be forthwith repealed, as required by a just sense of constitutional obligations, and by a due regard for the peace of the Republic; and the President of the United States is requested to communicate these resolutions to the Governors of the several States, with a request that they will lay the same before the Legislatures thereof respectively. Resolved, That we recognize slavery as now existing in fifteen of the United States by the usages and laws of those States; and we recognize no authority, legally or otherwise, outside of a State where it so exists, to interfere with slaves or slavery in such States, in disregard of the rights of their owners or the peace of society. Resolved, That we recognize the justice and propriety of a faithful execution of the Constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof on the subject of fugitive slaves, or fugitives from service or labor, and discountenance all mobs or hindrances to the execution of such laws, and that citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privi leges and immunities of citizens in the sev eral States. Resolved, That we recognize no such conflicting elements in its composition, or sufficient cause from any source, for a dissolution of this Government; that we were not sent here to destroy, but to sustain and harmonize the institutions of the country, Messrs. Love of Georgia, and HAMILTON and to see that equal justice is done to all of Texas, dissented from the majority re- parts of the same; and finally, to perpetuate port, and recommended the Crittenden pro-its existence on terms of equality and justice position. Mr. FERRY was unable to concur in the report made by MR. CORWIN, and made a statement of his position. VOTE ON THE FIRST PROPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTY-THREE, FEB. 27TH, 1861. DECLARATORY RESOLUTIONS. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all attempts on the part of the Legislatures of any of the States to obstruct or hinder the recovery and surrender of fugitives from service or labor, are in derogation of the Constitution of the United States, inconsistent with the comity and good neighborhood that should prevail among the several States, and dangerous to the peace of the Union. Resolved, That the several States be respectfully requested to cause their statutes to be revised, with a view to ascertain if any of them are in conflict with or tend to embarrass or hinder the execution of the to all the States. Resolved, That a faithful observance, on the part of all the States, of all their constitutional obligations to each other and to the Federal Government, is essential to the peace of the country. Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal Government to enforce the Federal laws, protect the Federal property, and preserve the Union of these States. Resolved, That each State be requested to revise its statutes, and, if necessary, so to amend the same as to secure, without legislation by Congress, to citizens of other States travelling therein, the same protection as citizens of such State enjoy; and also to protect the citizens of other States travelling or sojourning therein against popular violence or illegal summary punishment, without trial in due form of law, for imputed crimes. Resolved, That each State be also respect. fully requested to enact such laws as will prevent and punish any attempt whatever in such State to recognize or set on foot the lawless invasion of any other State or Territory. Resolved, That the President be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolutions to the Governors of the several States, with a request that they be communicated to their respective Legislatures. YEAS-Messrs. Charles F. Adams, Green Adams, Adrain, Akirish, William C. Anderson, Babbitt, Barrett, Beale, Boteler, Bra son, Brayton, Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burch, Burnham, Butterfield, Campbell, Carter, John B. Clark, Coburn, Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Colfax, Conkling, Corwin, Covode, Cor, James Craig, H. Winter Davis, John G. Davis, Delano, Dimmick, Dunn, Edwards, Ely, English, Etherize, Farnsworth, Ferry, Florence, Foster, Fouke, French, Güner, Graham, Grow, Gurley, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, J. Merison Harris, John T. Harris, Huskin, Hatton, Helmick, Hard, Holman, William Howard, William A. Howard, Hataphrey, Irvine, Junkin, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kell, Kenyon, Kilgore, Killinger, Larrabee, James M. Leach, Lee, Logan, Longnecker, Loomis, Maclay, Mallory, Marston, Charles D. Martin, Maynard, McClernand, McKean, M:Kenty, McKnight, McPherson, Millson, Montgomery, Laban T. Moore, Moorhead, Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, 1ue N. Morris, Morse, Nelson, Niblack, Nixon, Noell, Olin, Palmer, Perry, Pettit, Peyton, Phelps, Porter, Pottle, Quarles, John H. Reynolds, Rice, Riggs, Christopher Robinson, James C. Robinson, Royce, Scranton, Sherman, Sickles, Sms, William N. H. Smith, Spaulding, Stanton, Stevenson, William Stewart, Stokes, Stout, Stratton, Thayer, Tompkins, Tun, Trimble, Vallandigham, Vance, Verree, Waldron, Walton, Webster, Wilson, Windom, Wood, Woodruff-137. NATS-Messrs. Alley, Ashley, Avery,Bingham, Blair, Blake, Boeck, Branch, Buffinton, Burlingame, Burnett, Carey, Case, Conway, Burton Craige, Dawes, De Jarnette, Duell, Edmundsm, Elist, Fenton, Garnett, Gooch, Hickman, Hindman, Hughes, Hutchins, Jenkins, De Witt C. Leach, Leake, Love jey, Ebert S. Martin, Potter, Pryor, Edwin R. Reynolds, Rain, Rust, Sedgwick, William Smith, Somes, Spinner, Stevens, James A. Stewart, Tappan, Thomas, Vandever, Van Wyck, Wade, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Wells, Whiteley, Winslow, Woodson-53. So the joint resolution was passed. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, namely: ART. XII. No amendment of this Constitution having for its object any interference within the States with the relation between their citizens and those described in section second of the first article of the Constitution as all other persons," shall originate with any State that does not recognize that relation within its own limits, or shall be valid without the assent of every one of the States composing the Union. Before the vote was taken Mr. CORWIN offered the following substitute for the above article: ART. XII. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. Which was agreed to, yeas 120, nays as follows: 61, YEAS-Messrs. Charles F. Adams, Green Adams, Aldrich, William C. Anderson, Avery, Babbitt, Barr, Barrett, Bocock, Boteler, Brabson, Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burch, Burnett, Butterfield, Campbell, Horace F. Clark, John B. Clark, Coburn, Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Colfax, Corwin, Cox, James Craig, H. Winter Davis, John G. Davis, Dawes, De Jarnette, Delano, Dimmick, Duun, Edmundson, English, Etheridge, Florence, Fouke, Gilmer, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, J. Morrison Harris, John T. Hurris, Hatton, Helmick, Hoard, Holman, William Howard, William A. Howard, Hughes, Humphrey, Jenkins, Junkin, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, Kenyon, Kilgore, Killinger, Kunkel, Lar rabee, James M. Leach, Leake, Logan, Mallory, Marston, Charles D. Martin, Elbert S. Martin, Maynard, McClernand, Mc Kenty, McKnight, McPherson, Millson, Montgomery, Laban T. Moore, Moorhead, Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, Isaac N. Morris, Nelson, Niblack, Nixon, Noell, Olin, Palmer, Peyton, Phelps, Porter, Pryor, Quarles, John H. Reynolds, Rice, Riggs, Christopher Robinson, James C. Robinson, Ruffin, Rust, Scranton, Sickles, Simms, William N. H. Smith, Spaulding, Stanton, Stevenson, James A. Stewart, Stokes, Stout, Stratton, Thayer, Thomas, Trimble, Vance, Verree, Walton, Webster, Windom, Woodson, Wright-120. NAYS-Messrs. Alley, Ashley, Beale, Bingham, Blair, Blake, Brayton, Buffinton, Burlingame, Burnham, Carey, Carter, Case, Conkling, Conway, Duell, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Fenton, Ferry, Foster, Frank, Gooch, Graham, Grow, Hickman, Hindman, Hutchins, Irvine, De Witt C. Leach, Lee, Longnecker, Loomis, Lovejoy, McKean, Perry, Pettit, Potter, Pottle, Edwin R. Reynolds, Royce, Sedgwick, Somes, Spinner, Stevens, William Stewart, Tappan, Tomp kins, Train, Vandever, Van Wyck, Wade, Waldron, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Ellihu B. Washburne, Wells, Wilson, Winslow, Woodruff-61. The resolution as amended was then negatived, yeas 120, nays 71, two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Charles F. Adams, Green Adams, Adrain, William C. Anderson, Avery, Babbitt, Barr, Barrett, Bocock, Boteler, Bouligny, Brabson, Branch, Briggs, Bris tow, Brown, Burch, Burnett, Campbell, Horace F. Clark, John B. Clark, Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Colfax, Corwin, Cox, James Craig, Burton Craige, H. Winter Davis, John G. Davis, De Jarnette, Delano, Dimmick, Dunn, Edmundson, English, Etheridge, Florence, Fouke, Garnett, Gilmer, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, J. Morrison Harris, John T. Harris, Hatton, Helmick, Hoard, Holman, Wm. Howard, William A. Howard, Hughes, Humphrey, Jenkins, Junkin, James M. Leach, Leake, Logan, Maclay, Mallory, Charles William Kellogg, Kenyon, Killinger, Kunkel, Larrabee, D. Martin, Elbert S. Martin, Maynard, McClernand, McKenty, McKnight, McPherson, Millson, Montgomery, Laban T. Moore, Moorhead, Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, Isaac N. Morris, Nelson, Niblack, Nixon, Noell, Olin, Peyton, Phelps, Porter, Pryor, Quarles, John H. Reynolds, Rice, Riggs, Christopher Robinson, James C. Robinson, Ruffin, Rust, Scranton, Sickles, Simms, William N. H. Smith, Spaulding, Stanton, Stevenson, James A. Stewart, Stokes, Stout, Thayer, Thomas, Trimble, Vallandigham, Vance, Verree, Webster, Whiteley, Windom, Winslow, Wood, Woodson, Wright-120. NAYS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Ashley, Beale, Bingham, Butterfield, Carey, Carter, Case, Coburn, Conkling. Conway, Blair, Blake, Brayton, Buffinton, Burlingame, Burnham, Covode, Dawes, Duell, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Farnsworth, Fenton, Ferry, Foster, Frank, Gooch, Graham, Grow, Gurley, Hickman, Hutchins, Irvine, Francis W. Kellogg, Kilgore, De Witt C. Leach, Lee, Longnecker, Loomis, Lovejoy. Marston, McKean, Morse, Perry, Pettit, Potter, Pottle, Edwin R. Reynolds, Royce, Sedgwick, Somes, Spinner, Stevens, William Stewart, Tappan, Tompkins, Train, Vandever, Van Wyck, Wade, Waldron, Walton, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Ellihu B. Washburne, Wells, Wilson, Woodruff-71. Mr. KILGORE entered a motion to re-consider. February 28th. This motion was carried, yeas 125, nays 68, and the joint resolution then passed, yeas 133, nays 65, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Charles F. Adams, Green Adams, Ad rain, Aldrich, William C. Anderson, Avery, Babbitt, Barr, Barrett, Bocock, Boteler, Bouligny, Brabson, Branch, Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burch, Burnett, Butterfield, Camp bell, Horace F. Clark, John B. Clark, Clemens, Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Colfax, Corwin, Cox, James Craig, Burton Craige, H. Winter Davis, John G. Davis, De Jarnette, Delano, Dimmick, Dunn, Edmundson, English, Etheridge, Florence, Puke, French, Garnett, Gilmer, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, J. Morrison Harris, John T. Harris, Has kin, Hatton, Helmick, Hoard, Holman, William Howard, William A. Howard, Hughes, Humphrey, Jenkins, Junkin, William Kellogg, Kenyon, Kilgore, Killinger, Kunkel, Wright-133. entitled to vote for members of the Territorial House of Representatives. The election for the convention shall be held on the 5th day of August, 1861, by the same officers who would hold an election for members of the said House of Representatives; and those officers shall conform to the law now in force in said Territory for election for members of said House of Representatives in all respects, in holding the election, receiving and rejecting votes, and making the returns of the election for the convention. The convention shall assemble at the city of Santa Fé, on the 2d day of September, 1861, and continue its sessions at that place until its deliberations shall be closed. The constitution agreed on by the convention shall be submitted to the people of the Territory for such election on the constitution, all those their approval or rejection as a whole; at and others shall be entitled to vote who YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Baker, Bigler, Bright, Crittenare now entitled to vote for members of don, Dixon, Douglas, Foster, Grimes, Gwin, Harlan, Hunter, Johnson of Tennessee, Kennedy, Latham, Mason, Morrill, the House of Representatives of said TerNicholson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian, Ten Eyck, Thom-ritory; and such election shall be held NAYS-Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark, Doolittle, Durkee, Foot, King, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wil March 2d. The joint resolution passed the Senate, yeas 24, nays 12, as follows: son-24. Bon-12. Whereas, by the act of Congress approved on the 9th of September, in the year 1850, it was provided that the people of New Mexico, when admitted as a State, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may provide at the time of their admission; and whereas the population of said Territory is now sufficient to constitute a State government: Therefore, by the same officers who conduct, by the present laws, the election for members of the House of Representatives of the Territory, at the same places for voting, and in the same manner in all respects; and such election shall be held on the 4th day of November, 1861, and the returns thereof made to the Governor of the Territory, who shall forthwith sum up and declare the result, and shall send a certificate thereof, together with a copy of the constitution, to the President of the United States. The said State shall be entitled to one member of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, held until the apportionment under the next census. Mr. HICKMAN moved to lay the bill on the table; which was agreed to, yeas 115, nays 71, as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame- Beale, Bingham, Blair, Blake, Bocock, Boteler, Bouligny, YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Ashley, Avery, Babbitt, rica in Congress assembled, That the inhabi- Brabson, Branch, Brayton, Buffinton, Burlingame, Bur tants of the Territory of New Mexico, in-nett, Burnham, Carey, Carter, Case, Coburn, Colfax, Conway, Covode, Burton Craige, John G. Davis, Dawes, De Jarnette, cluding therein the region called Arizona, Duell, Edgerton, Edmundson, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Farns be, and they are hereby, authorized to form worth, Fenton, Ferry, Florence, Foster, Frank, Gornett, for themselves a constitution of State gov- Hindman, Hoard, William A. Howard, Humphrey, HutchGooch, Graham, Grow, Hale, Haskin, Hatton, Hickman, ernment by the name of the State of New ins, Irvine, Jenkins, Francis W. Kellogg, De Witt C. Mexico; and the said State, when formed, Leach, Jas. M. Leach, Leuke, Lee, Longnecker, Loomis, Lovejoy, Maclay, Marston, Elbert S. Martin, Maynard, shall be admitted into the Union upon the McKean, Morrill, Morse, Nelson, Niblack, Olin, Palmer, same footing with the original States in all Perry, Phelps, Potter, Pottle, Pryor, Quarles, Edwin R. Reynolds, John H. Reynolds, Christopher Robinson, James respects whatever. And said constitution C. Robinson, Royce, Sedgwick, William N. H. Smith, shall be formed by a convention of the peo- Somes, Spinner, Stevens, William Stewart, Tappan, Thomas, ple of New Mexico, which shall consist of Van Wyck, Wade, Waldron, Walton, Cadwalader C. WashTompkins, Train, Trimble, Vallandigham, Vance, Vandever, twice the number of members now by law burn, Ellihu B. Washburne, Wells, Whiteley, Wilson, Winconstituting the House of Representatives dom. Winslow, Woodruff, Woodson, Wright-115. NAYS-Messrs. Chas. F. Adams, Green Adams, Adrain, of the Territory; each representative district William C. Anderson, Barr, Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burch, shall elect two members to said convention Butterfield, Campbell, Horace F. Clark, John B. Clark, Clemens, Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Conkling, for every member now by law elected in such Corwin, Cox, James Craig, H. Winter Davis, Delano, Dim district to the Territorial House of Repre-mick, Dunn, English, Etheridge, Fouke, Gilmer, J. Morrison sentatives; and in such election only those persons shall vote for such delegates as are, by the laws of said Territory now in force, Harris, John T. Harris, Holman, William Howard, Hughes, Junkin, William Kellogg, Kenyon, Kilgore, Killinger, Kunkel, Larrabee, Logan, Mallory, Chas. D. Martin, McClernand, Mc Kenty, McKnight, McPherson, Millson, Laban T. Moore, Moorhead, Edward Joy Morris, Isaac N. Morris, Nixon, Noell, Pendleton, Pettit, Peyton, Porter, Rice, Riggs, Sickles, The Legislatures of Ohio and Maryland agreed to the Simms, Spaulding, Stanton, Stevenson, James A. Stewart, amendment promptly. Stokes, Stratton, Thayer, Webster, Wood-71. |