ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,

HON. MILTON BRowN's PLAN OF ANNEX
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On Saturday the 25th ult., after rejecting
several other propositions, the Baltimore
Patriot says:


The amendment. OF MIR Milton Brown,
OF / Irnnessee, was then read. which provides
for one slave State, and four others to be
erected hereafter, In which 1t shall exist or
not, south OF he Missouri compromise line
as the people in each of them determine.
The Texas debt not to be paid out CT the
proceeds ofthe public lands.


At the suggestion oil Mr.. Douglas, of Ii.
linois, Mr.. Brown modified his proposition,
So as to exclude slavery north OF the Nilsson
RI compromise line.


The amendment was adopted-yeas 100
nays %.


The original proposition before the com
mittee was the plan of Mir. c. ]. In9ersoll,
of Pennsylvania, which is the same treaty.


Mr. Browns proposition, just adopted,
was offered as an amendment TO the propo,
stion of Mr. and is in fact a substitute for
the whole of the plan ofthat gentleman.


The original proposition as amended
was adopted Yeas 10, nays %.


The committee then rose, and the chair
man reported Mr. Browns proposition to
the House.


Mr., Cave johnson, of Tennessee, moved
the previous question, and said he hoped no
farther debate would take place and that the
House would put an end, at once, to this
distracting question.


The vote on seconding the previous ques>
ton stood yeas l07. nays 81.


So there was a second


The Speaker then put the question
shall the main question be now put"
Yeas Is. nays 100


So it was determined that the nam ones.
ton should be put 1t was on concurrence
IN the amendment adopted by the Commit
tee of the Whole, being the proposition sub,
mitted by MIR. Milton Brown, of Tennessee
TO annex Texas


Ga motion of Mr.. Vnton. of Ohio, the
yeas and nays were ordered and the amend
nent was decid d ia the afifmative-yeas
II8, nays I0l.


The vote was then taken by yeas and
nays on he engrossment Of the resolution
yeas lI9, nays 81.


The resolC tions having been read a third
time, and being put upon their final passage
they were passed. The vote was taken by
yeas and nays and stOod-yeas 10. nays
98.


A motion was then made to reconsider
the foregoing vote, which was rejected.


The House then agreed 10 the title to the
resolution, and at o'clock adjourned.