CONGRESSIONAL.
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| On motion OF Mr. Benton. the Senate
| took up the bill heretofore introduced bv
him, To provide for the annexation of Tex
as when Mr.. B submitted the following
substitute, VIZ:


a BILL to provide for the annexation
| of Hexas to the United States.


Be iteaocted &c: That State. to he
formed out OF tie present Republic of Tex
as, with suitable extent and boundaries.
with two Representatives, shall be admit
| ted Into the Union, by virtue of this act. on
an equai iooln9 with The existing States as
soon as the terms and conditions OF such al
mission, and the session of the ren,ainio,
Texan territory, TO the United States shall
be agreed upon by the Government Of
Texas and the United States.
SEC. 2 A'ad be 9t further enacted. Thai
the sum OF one hundred thousand dollars he
and the same IS hereby appropriated. to de-.
tray the expenses OF missions and nopotia.
tons 10 agree upon the terms of SAID ed,
mission and cession, either by treatv 10 he
submitted to the Senate, or Dy articles 70 be
submitted to the two Houses Of Congress-
as The President NAV direct.


The bill having been twice read


Mr. Berrien moved to refer # fo tlo
COMMITTEE OF Foreign Relations; on which
motion debate of some extent ensped. in,
volVing incidentally the merits oftbis and
other propositions for annexation as well as
the question of annexation itself. in which
Messfs Berren, Benton, Morehead Merricl
Allen, Walker, Bag5y, Rives, Barrow and
Colquitt took part and which resulted in
negativing the motion by the following
vote:
YEAS-Messrs Bayard, Barrow Ber.
rien, Clayton, Crittenden, Dayton, Evans
Francis, Foster, Johnson Huntington. Mar
rick, Miller, Morehead, Pearce, Porter
Rives, Simmons, Upham, White, Wood, |
bridge-2I.


ma YS-Messrs. Allen, ,Ashlv. .Atcbisan
Atherton, n,Bagby. Benton, Buchanan. Breese
Colquit. Dix, Dickinson, Fairfield Hanne. /
gan, Huger, Haywood, Jarnagin. Lewis
Niles. Sewer, Sturgeon, Tappan Walker
Wooddury-23
Messrs, Mangum. Choate, Bates. Hen.
derson and Archer, who would have voted
yea, were absent and also Messrs. McDpf
lie and Semple. who have voted nag.


HOUSE.


WEDNESDAY, Feb. ;.
The Bill for the reduction of the nrice
OF the Public Lands was taken up, and laid
0n tie table AVes f03 navS OK