ia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and
Ohio--10.

And the amendment was lost.

Mr. GUTHRIE:--I ask the Conference now to let us have a vote.

Mr. SEDDON:--Not just yet. I move to amend the substitute offered by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, by the insertion after the clause
providing for the division of the territory, of the following:

"All appointments to office in the Territories lying north
of the line 36 deg. 30', as well before as after the
establishment of Territorial governments in and over the
same, or any part thereof, shall be made upon the
recommendation of a majority of the Senators representing,
at the time, the non-slaveholding States. And, in like
manner, all appointments to office in the Territories which
may lie south of said line of 36 deg. 30', shall be made upon
the recommendation of a majority of the Senators
representing, at the time, the slaveholding States. But
nothing in this article shall be construed to restrain the
President of the United States from removing, for actual
incompetency or misdemeanor in office, any person thus
appointed, and appointing a temporary agent, to be continued
in office until the majority of Senators as aforesaid may
present a new recommendation; or from filling any vacancy
which may occur during the recess of the Senate; such
appointment to continue _ad interim_. And to insure, on the
part of the Senators, the selection of the most trustworthy
agents, it is hereby directed that all the net proceeds
arising from the sales of the public lands, shall be
distributed annually among the several States, according to
the combined ratio of representation and taxation; but the
distribution aforesaid may be suspended by Congress, in case
of actual war with a foreign nation, or imminent peril
thereof."

Mr. SEDDON:--I invite the careful and deliberate attention of the
Conference to the provisions of this amendment. It is commended by
high authority. It is commended by nothing inferior to the wisdom and
experience of our honored President. It is intended as a division of
the territory between the North and the South.

Now, to insure a fair operation of the provisions of the Constitution,
as they will stand in that instrument when amended as we propose, we
deem it very essential that the rights of the southern section s