States, except by discovery, and for naval and commercial
stations, depots, and transit routes, without the
concurrence of a majority of all the Senators from States
which allow involuntary servitude, and a majority of all the
Senators from States which prohibit that relation; nor shall
territory be acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a
majority of the Senators from each class of States
hereinbefore mentioned be cast as a part of the two-thirds
majority necessary to the ratification of such treaty.
The vote on the adoption of section two was taken, and resulted as
follows:
AYES.--Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New
Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and
Virginia--11.
NOES.--Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts,
North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Vermont--8.
New York and Kansas were divided.
So the section was adopted.
The following gentlemen dissented from the vote of their States: Mr.
MEREDITH and Mr. WILMOT, of Pennsylvania; Mr. RUFFIN and Mr. MOREHEAD,
of North Carolina; Mr TYLER, of Virginia; Mr. CLAY, of Kentucky; and
Mr. HACKLEMAN and Mr. ORTH, of Indiana.
Mr. GUTHRIE:--I now move the adoption of the third section of the
report as amended, and request that it may be read.
The Secretary proceeded to read as follows: