Mr. FIELD:—This motion is debatable.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN:—I submit that the motion of the gentleman from New York is not an amendment; that it is an addition, and may be laid on the table without affecting the remainder of the report.
Mr. BRONSON:—We have now gone through with the propositions, and are ready to take a final vote upon them. Mr. Field's amendment is properly an addition, and relates entirely to other subjects. Laying that on the table does not carry the whole subject there.
The motion of Mr. Ewing prevailed by the following vote: Ayes, 11; Noes, 10.[6]
Messrs. Meredith, Wilmot, and Chase dissented from the votes of their respective States.
Mr. FIELD:—I now offer it as an amendment to the 7th section.
Mr. BRONSON:—I rise to a point of order. My colleague has proposed this amendment as an additional section, and it has been laid upon the table. He now proposes to put the same thing in another place. That is certainly not in order.
Mr. FIELD:—I now offer it distinctly as an amendment to the 7th section, to avoid the quibbling by which a direct vote was avoided before. It may as well be understood that other than slave States have certain rights upon this floor, and that those rights will be asserted. I wish gentlemen to understand that I shall resist, as well as I may, every attempt to avoid or dodge this question.
The PRESIDENT:—In the opinion of the Chair it is not in order.
Mr. FIELD:—Then I offer one-half the amendment as follows: "The Union of the States, under the Constitution, is indissoluble."