SECTION 7. Congress shall provide by law that the United States shall pay to the owner the full value of his fugitive from labor, in all cases where the marshal, or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest such fugitive, was prevented from so doing by violence or intimidation from mobs or riotous assemblages, or when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of such fugitive. Mr. GUTHRIE:--I hope now the Conference will proceed in the regular way, and that the majority report will be first perfected so far as amendments are concerned, and that then it may be adopted. Mr. SEDDON:--I move to amend the first section by inserting, after the words "in all the present territory south of said line," the words "including the Cherokee grant," and I call for a vote by States on the adoption of the amendment I propose. My object is to carry out the instruction of the committee. A small part of the grant lies north of the line. It is better to include the whole. Mr. BACKUS:--I move to amend the amendment proposed by the gentleman from Virginia, by substituting the word "excluding" for the word "including," and on my motion ask a vote by States. Mr. RUFFIN:--I think the gentleman does not understand the effect of his amendment. Mr. BACKUS:--I do not think we ought to regard the Cherokee grant at all. Mr. FRANKLIN:--I think both the amendments important. Mr. SEDDON:--We must recognize the Cherokee Territory, and not divide it. Upon mature reflection, I think the amendment is important. The vote was taken upon the motion of Mr. BACKUS, and resulted as follows: AYES.--Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont--11. NOES.--Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia--9. The PRESIDENT:--The question is now upon the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia, as amended by the Conference. Mr. GUTHRIE:--I hope the amendment will not be adopted. It is not necessary to the sense of the article. It is cumulative in its effect. We have expressly excluded the Cherokee grant, lest we might seem to overrule the Cherokee treaty by a provision of the Constitution. The vote was taken by States, on the adoption of the amendment proposed by Mr. SEDDON, as amended, with the following result: AYES.--Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Vermont--10. NOES.--Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia--10. Thus the amendment was lost. Mr. PRATT:--I wish to enter my dissent from the vote of Connecticut.