At about the same time the house took up a presidential message presenting the free soil constitution of California. Doty, a free soil democrat, introduced on February 28 a resolution instructing the committee on territories to report a bill for the admission... Annual Report of the American Historical Association - Page 203by American Historical Association - 1903Full view - About this book
| 1918 - 602 pages
...constitution of California. Doty, a free soil democrat, introduced on February 28 a resolution instructing the committee on territories to report a bill for the admission of California.20 After a motion to table the resolution had been defeated by a strictly sectional vote,... | |
| Salmon Portland Chase - 1993 - 532 pages
...vote for it, and I know of no northern Senator who will probably vote against it except Sturgeon. 9 We would have passed Benton's proposition to instruct...on all their important propositions. Little Clemens 10 has the floor for next Tuesday when we shall have blood & thunder in quantity. The California question,... | |
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