Mr. SUMNER. It did not, as I shall show you Mrp.reLsAenNtly. a, of Indiana. If he desired such a restriction it should have been proposed then. I ask the Senfrom Massachusetts, if it may not be considered irrelevant. whether he did not vote for the enabling act for Colorado: whether he did notvote for the enablin act for Nevada; whether he did not vote for the admission of Nevada; and whether precisely the same provision does not exist in the constitution of Nevada, which we admitted less than 2 years ago by a deliberate vote? I think Colorado should be admitted for many reasons. They are a peculiar people, isolated some 6 or 800 miles from the waters of the ississip i, and some 8 or 900 miles, perhaps, from the acific coast. They have a pecu iar minin interes not common to the whole people oft ie U.S. The think they require peculiar legislation, and that their legislation at home will be more adapted to develop their interests than legislation here at Washington. They think they have peculiar interests which should be represented here in the person of a member in the other House and Senators in this branch of Congress and I can see no possible objection to it. I feel that we are committed. We authorized the o anization of a State government, we impose certain conditions, and we said if they would comply with these conditions they should be admitted as a State. They have substantially complied with every single condition, not exactly in the time specified in the act, but time is not of the essence of this contract. It is a continuing contract. We expressed our willingness to admit them upon certain conditions. They made one effort and failed. Upon the 2nd effort they complied with all our conditions, and I see no possible reason why they should not be admit ed, no reason resulting from the time at which the question is to be taken in the Senate, no reason resulting from the nature of the case. I think we shouldhail these new States, we should build them up as soon as possible; and there is another reason: the moment a State government is organized the Government of the U.S. is relieved from the burden of the territorial organization, and that whole burden is thrown upon the people of Colorado. I understandpalso, that there has been a great misapprehension existing in the minds of many Senators in reference to the number of people now in that Territory. A memorial hasp their Legislature memorializing congress for the admission of their members, and stating positivel that they have a population of 50,000. I doubt not a great mistake has pervaded the minds of Senators in reference to the number of the population. But it is said they are not able to bear the burdens of a State government, and the taxation necessary to support the machinery of a State organization. hey perhaps are as competent to judge upon thatquestion as we are, and they thin they are ablie to bear all those burdens. Another thing is true: 10,000 or 20,000 or 50,000 persons in a mining district are better able to support the burdens of a State government than a quarter of a million of people in an agricultural country. They are wen thy; they are continually develoing the capital of the country; and the fgel that their interests would be subservetI by this organization. Another reason, important and controllin with me, is that the people there have a loya and sound State organization. They have come in here under our invitation, and I do not now propose to slam the door in their faces.