Mr. WADE. They are in the last category I laid down, subject to that rule which I stand ready here to enforce upon them. Now, Mr. President, one reason why the Territory of Nebraska should be very soon admitted as a State is that the land there is being taken up by your college scrip, by your railroad grants, &c. In various ways the land is being all absorbed, so that, if we leave it a little while longer exposed in this way we shall not have the power to give to the State for school purposes and for various other purposes those grants which we have uniformly made to new States on their admission into the Union. We shall deprive them of the privilege of receiving these grants and ourselves of the power to deal with this new State on the conditions that we have dealt with every other Territory which has been admitted as a State. This is one great reason why we should do this act at once, and permit them to avail themselves of the same advan tages we have always bestowed upon others in like circumstances. The next question that generally arises in considering these subjects is whether the territory applying for admission has a sufficient amount of population to entitle it to admission into the Union. As I said here once before, there has been no uniform rule as to the number of inhabitants that entitle a Territory to admission into the Union. Sometimes the number has been more and sometimes less; but scarcely ever has it been the fact that a Territory has had enough inhabitants to entitle it to one Representative in the HoRep, according to the then existing ratio. I hardly know of any Territory that has had that number of inhabitants when it has Wo. for admission and has been admitted. 'e have looked rather to the capabilities of the Territory, its means of sustaining a population, the facility win which i ijimoji population, what will probably be its condition in a short time. The people of the new States and their Representatives generally being in harmony with the great interests of the country, and ready to act and vote in accordance with the principles of progress on which the American Union is founded for the benefit of all, it has not been considered a question of very great moment to fix the particular number of their population at the time of admission into the Union. I know the disparity which exists between great States like NewYork, Pennsylvania, and Ohio and these new States whose Representatives are brought into this body on exactly equal terms. So far as population is concerned, there is a great and mighty disparity in the condition of things. It seems somewhat hard that a small State should have the same power in this body as a large one with 5 or 6 or 8 times its population; but nevertheless that was one of the fundamental principles on which the government was organized. Nobody has found fault with it practically. The reason why this inequality has been submitted to with very little opposition I have already suggested: the interests of all harmonize and they act together. What benefits one benefits the other. Although the State of Ohio has a population of about 3 millions she has no more voice in this body than a State having one 10th that population; and yet the Senators of the smaller State have the same great views of government and the same great interests to protect, and the result is that we act in harmony and the disparity is not felt. If we were from different nations, with different religions to maintain and different interests to support, this inequality that exists and ever has existed in the senate would be perfectly unbearable. As it is, it creates no hardship upon anybody. We are harmonious, we act alike, and all act, I trust, for the great interests of all. Now, what is the number of inhabitants in this Territory? There has been an examination made by the Bureau of Statistics, and they make out that it has a population of 88,530, and that was last April.