Mr. BUCKALEW. A bill like this ought to be voted upon with the Senate full, and if a number of members are going away tonight or in the morning it would be manifestly improper to take the vote on this subject tomorrow. As to myself, I am willing to conform my action to the pleasure of the majority of the Senate. I have been with an observant eye during the day looking to a point of time when I could address the Chair, not for the purpose of making a general discourse such as we have listened to, but for the narrow purpose, perhaps the unusual purpose in connection with such debates, of speaking upon the question itself and stating distinctly the rea: sons why I vote against this particular bill and shall vote against the bill which will follow it, and shall also at the present or future sessions vote against the several other bills of like character which will follow those. Now, sir, Ibeg to remark that although this debate has been somewhat protracted, although it has gone over several days of the session of the Senate, and it has appeared no doubt tedious to gentlemen, yet we are discussing a question of the 1st magnitude and a question that will not expend its force and its interest with the present measure. Since the conclusion of the war we are passing upon the general question of the admission of States; and it will be a calamity, it will be an inconvenience, it will be an evil if the Senate, for the purpose of getting a hurried vote should commit itself upon this bill, because the position we assume here is a position which will control and perhaps ought to control our action hereafter. Several gentlemen who have spoken are interested with reference to the connection of this bill with the general subject of suffrage, I feel no interest upon that point, but I do feel th deep and a real interest, and I have a right to feel it as the representative of a State of 3 million people, in the question of the magnitude of the new States which are here after to be introduced into this Union; of the time, manner, and circumstances under which constitutions framed by them shall be received as the basis of their introduction into this confederacy of States. Now, sir, I have some ideas that I would desire to express to the Senate, not after this bill is passed and the subsequent one, but now before the judgment of the Senate is pronounced. I do not know that anything I can say will change the ultimate vote of this body on the question we are now considering; but I desire to take up the enabling acts introduced in 1864 by the Senfrom Ohio as the organ of the ComTerritor; to show the circumstances under which those bills were passed; the objects in their enactment; and then to follow that out by a statement of the several steps which have since been taken in these Territories and in Congress with reference to their admission, and to show from an examination or exploration of this new field of inquiry that there are considerations which have not yet been presented to the Senate in this debate, which according to the best of my judgment ought to be considered before this question is determined. all I have to say in conclusion is, that if the Senfrom Ohio and the Senate are desirous of going on tonight I am content to occupy a brief space in the argument I have suggested.