Mr. BUCKALEW. But, Mr. President, the force and effect of this fact is not weakened or removed at all in respect to the point for which I cited it, and that was, to show that the congress of 1864 was misled, if not intentionally, in effect, deceived with reference to the subject of population in both the Territories that are now before us for admission, and that if the truth had then been known, if the facts as they were subsequently ascertained had been fairly stated and fully understood, there is no reason to believe that these enabling acts would have been passed. Congress acted under a misconception of the amount of population in each of these Territories, I say this is conclusive against any argument founded upon these enabling statutes the argument which has been pressed upon us with such force from the commencement of the debate down to this time. At the very time when the Senfrom Ohio, upon authority which misled him equally with the Senate, was fixing the minimum of the population of colorado at 60,000, at. very moment when he was informing us that the Delegate from that Territory in the other branch claimed that it was much larger than that, the actual number of inhabitants in that Territory could not possibly have been over 30,000, one.i. the minimum fixed, and upon which I have a right to say the action of Congress was predicated. And so in regard to the Territory of Nebraska. We were assured that it would have 127,000 inhabitants by the time its constitution was formed and its officers elected. Instead of that being the fact in October, 1864, when we were told it would take place, here in 1866, and at the end of the year, we are acting upon the question of admit: ting Nebraska, with a probable population of not more than 50,000. It is true, strange and vague statements are made about there being some 80,000 people, in this Territory, with nothing to sustain them except an unofficial and unreliable letter, to j.I shall hereafter allude. We have satisfactory proof, that the population must be in theoof 50,000 only. But Congress was told more than 2 years ago, that in October 1864, it would be up to the ratio of 127,000. I will now briefly state the facts as to numbers, having laid the foundation for the exhibit. 1st, in relation to Colorado; by the census of 1860 the population was 34, 277. The vote in August 1861, was 10, 580; in December 1861, 9, 354; in October 1862, 8, 224; in September 1864, following the date of the enabling act, 5, 769; in September 1865, upon the adoption of the constitution, 5, 895, upon which vote a majority of 155 in favor of the constitution was reported. In this connection I will give the figures from the census or enumeration taken in 1861 to show the division of the population as to sex and age.