<P> Huskisson was appointed along with Henry Unwin Addington to negotiate with Gallatin . Unlike his superior, Canning, Huskisson held a negative view of the HBC monopoly and found the region held in dispute with the Americans "of little consequence to the British ." At time the HBC's staff were the only continuous white occupants in the region, though their economic activities weren't utilized by Huskinisson in exchanges with Gallatin . The division suggested by Pelly and Canning's 1824 offer of a Columbia River boundary was rejected . The argument used to counter these offers was the same as in 1824, that a boundary along the Columbia would deny the U.S. an easily accessible deep water port on the Pacific Ocean . The British negotiators to allay this attack offered a detached Olympic Peninsula as American territory, giving access to both the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound . This was seen as unsatisfactory by the Americans however . The diplomatic talks were continued but failed to divide the region in a satisfactory manner for both nations . The Treaty of 1818 was renewed on 7 August 1827, with a clause added by Gallatin that a one - year notice had to be given when either party intended to abrogate the agreement . After the death of Canning and the failure to find a satisfactory division of the region with the Americans, "Oregon had been almost forgotten by the (British) politicians ..." </P> <P> American Protestant missionaries began to arrive in the 1830s and established the Methodist Mission in the Willamette Valley and the Whitman Mission east of the Cascades . Ewing Young created a saw mill and a grist mill in the Willamette Valley early in the 1830s . He and several other American colonists formed the Willamette Cattle Company in 1837 to bring over 600 head of cattle to the Willamette Valley, with about half of its shares purchased by McLoughlin . Over 700 U.S settlers arrived via the Oregon Trail in the "Great Migration of 1843". The Provisional Government of Oregon was established in the Willamette Valley during 1843 as well . Its rule was limited to those interested Americans and former French - Canadian HBC employees in the valley . </P> <P> The first attempts by the American Government for proactive action in colonising the Pacific Northwest began in 1820 during the 2nd session of the 16th Congress . John Floyd, a Representative from Virginia, spearheaded a report that would "authorize the occupation of the Columbia River, and to regulated trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes thereon ." Additionally the bill called for cultivating commercial relations with the Qing Empire and the Tokugawa shogunate . His interest in the distant region likely began after meeting former PFC employee Russell Farnham . Floyd had the support of fellow Virginian Representative Thomas Van Swearingen and Representative Thomas Metcalfe of Kentucky . The bill was presented to both the House and to President Monroe . In the House, Floyd's bill was defended by one member who stated that it didn't "attempt a colonial settlement . The territory proposed to be occupied is already a part of the United States ." Monroe inquired the opinion of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams for potential revisions . Adams retorted that "The paper was a tissue of errors in fact and abortive reasoning, of invidious reflections and rude invectives . There was nothing could purify it but the fire ." Read twice before the legislature, "most of the members not considering it a serious proceeding", it didn't pass . </P> <P> Floyd continued to authorise legislation calling for an American colony on the Pacific . His career as a Representative ended in 1829, with the Oregon Question not discussed at Congress until 1837 . The northern border proposed by Floyd was at first the 53 °, and later 54 ° 40 ′ . These bills were still met with the apathy or opposition of other Congressional members, one in particular being tabled for consideration by a vote of 100 to 61 . Missouri Senator Thomas H. Benton became a vocal supporter of Floyd's efforts, and thought that they would "plant the germ of a powerful and independent Power beyond the Rockies ." John C. Calhoun, then Secretary of War, while somewhat interested in Floyd's considered bills, gave his opinion to that the HBC was an economic threat to American commercial interests in the west . </P>

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