What challenge did congress face in 1850

It was the Compromise of 1850 where five individual bills were approved of the position of territories taken after the Mexican War.  It was broken up into smaller bills did the comprise pass. It had provisions that both abolitionists and slave owners disagreed on.  

answer; ///i believe that one(1) of the issues was how to count slaves for the purpose of determining the number of a state's representatives in the house of representatives; how slaves would be counted for

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