Mr. POMEROY. Yes, the people of a territory can make a State with or without the legislation of Congress not a State, in the Union, but a State outside of it; and it is to be a State or else it cannot be admitted; congress cannot make it. The legislation contemplated by the Senfrom Vermont is, he says, the right to legislate over the State by virtue of our eminent domain and because we have got supreme authority. That does not devolve in us the right to make a constitution for a op. This proposition proposes to amend their constitution in a wa not pointed out by the instrument itself. contend that the way to amend the constitution Nebraska is according to its own provisions and not by an act of Congress. An act of Congress put into this act of admission and assented to by the Legislature cannot amend a constitution in violation of its own provisions. I do not believe it would be worth the paper that we consume in writing or printing it. If this amendment ever has any validity at all, it will be because it has been submitted to the people and the people have ratified and adopted it. Then it may become a part of the constitution. I do not believe that this constitution, when it was made by the territorial legislature, had any virtue as a State constitution until it was adopted by the people. I do not think any Legislature can make a constitutional [. binding unless it has been made so by virtue of the instrument itself or in harmony with our common law on the subject, and that is submission to and adoption by the people. I do notesee any way to amend this constitution except by sending it back to the people. I can see very well how this proposition can be made a part of the constitution in that way. It is on that account, not desiring to send this constitution back to the people, believing that there is no practical importance in the question that is now raised, that I shall vote for the admission of Nebraska exactly as the bill has been reported by the committee and without any amendment.