Congress put it in a "Compromise"-ing position(8)
.... leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of Los 
Angeles,... [DOC] [TLE] Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia [PAR] The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the 
United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political 
confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories ... 
District of Columbia.