Mr. WADE. Undoubtedly; that was my understanding of the subject. As I have said all other considerations as to poulation and everything else were overridden y the Pma mount one of political considerations. Now, in. President, in the committee I du agreed with my fellow members upon the admission of this State. As I said efore, after votingldown the 1st enabling act, the very next year they came and asked for another, notwithstanding 2/3rds, or nearly 2/3rds, of the population on a fair vote had voted down the State constitution and said they did not want to come in as a State that was the loudest expression that we could get from them; on tlemen were here asking the ComTerritories to give them another enabling act, and they had it ill referred to us; but we said “ No, we do not see any necessity for it; our people do not want it; you have got the loudest exression of the people of Colorado, and that is, that they do not want to come into the Union yet. They have told you so in the strongest way they could speak to on, and now you say they want to come in. e cannot understand that; there has been no increase of population to speak of; there has been no change in the circumstances of that Territory that we are aware of from the time they voted down the 1st enabling act to the time on ask another enabling act a year afterwar.” We did not believe they wanted to come in. Now sir, how emphatically did the people of Colorado speak the next time on the subject? When we refused to grant these gentlemen another enabling act, they said, “ O will go on without any; we will not ask you for any; we can do just as well without it, because Territories have been admitted without an enabling act. " I grant that they have been, not without great controversy but still it has been done. t was done in the case of California, which was another case where political considerations overrode those other mine rconsiderations. There the great question of the balance of power between the free and the slave States was up. Certain States threatened to disrupt the Union if we should brin in California, and demanded that it should e a slave State. General Taylor, as POTUS, wishing to settle the controversy, sent agents there avorable to bringing it in as a free State. There was a terrible controversy in Congress, but California was finally brought in as a free State, and scarcely anything was said about its population that I can recollect, and naturally there would not be. It was to settle a great question that was agitating the community and threatening the nation itself, and there was no time for an enabling act. We had just conquered the Territory. There it was under military rule; it was a rent necessity that civil government should e instituted there. These Were the reasons in that case. In the case of Michigan and that is the only case I recollect except California she was admitted into this Union without an enabling act,but it brought on a long and fierce controversy whether it should come in without it or not. The Attorney G general, I recollect, made a most elaborate report on that subject, finally comin to the conclusion that it would not be illega to recognize the act of the people and confirm what they had done. It was said then it would be irregular. It was only an exception to a rule almost general, and it was admitted with great reluctance prompted, undoubtedly. by the strongest party feeling, for party feeling never ran higher than then.