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measure, however, was reported to the House by the ComWhole in its original form, except for a few minor details and the addition of some sections, relating to mittee of the

ports of entry,

recommended by the Committee on Commerce.

Toward the end of the discussion in Committee McClernand had moved to strike out all but the enacting clause and to insert the Senate bill; he was declared out of order, in the midst of great confusion. An appeal from the ruling was taken but the House upheld the chair. A similar fate overtook an attempt to substitute the Senate compromise for the

whole

bill.

On

the second of August the bill as reported from the Committee of the Whole was taken up in the House and There was no division on the disposed of with no debate. amendments except that relating to the governor's veto, which was taken away by the House, and that on slavery. In Committee at a tim when there was a light attendance the 12th section had been striken out, but the House now replaced it by a vote of 114 to 88. The bill was then ordered engrossed and passed (129 to 71). In the division on the slavery section all the Congressmen from the slave States voted to retain the Committee amendment with the exception of fourteen who ten northern Representatives voted with their southern brethren, they were from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and

refused to vote



45

Pennsylvania. The defeat of the Senate measure in the

House had been

taken by all as a most unfavorable omen; nevertheless the western Democrats were determined to save something from the wreck if possible. Hannegan, 46 on the last day of July, in giving notice that

Monday

a

fornia and

he would introduce on the following

for organizing the territories of Oregon, CaliNew Mexico, stated that it was his conviction

bill

was vain for any individual to attempt to adjust the question; the defeat of the compromise measure had brought to members of both houses numerous requests from all over that

it

45 Globe, XVIII, 1027. 46 Ibid., loio, 1016.