Mr. HENDRICKS. I think we have arrived at that period in the session when we should dispose of a measure when we take it up. If we expect to adjourn at.any reasonable day, it is necessary that we should consider and act upon bills as they come before us. I hope we shall not be kept here very much longer in the summer months; and I shall object. to post oning any bill, when there is no special reason or it, to take up some other bill and discuss it a little while. If it is the purpose of the Senfrom Ohio to pass this bill it is just as well to complete its discussion today, vote upon it, and let it be a law, if it is to be a law, as to postpone it to some future day. If the Senator does not expect to put the bill upon its passage, then I think it is due to us who destre an early adjournment that he should not occupy the attention of the Senate by calling it up. I have a very few words to say in regard to the bill, not perhaps to exceed 5 minutes, and as it is yet before the Senate, I will say what I have got to say now. Mr. President, this is not proposed as a measure of practical necessary legislation, because it is known to all Senators that there are but ver few colored people in the Territories which will be reached y the provisions of this bill, and it can be intended only as an expression of the views of Congress in regard to the right of the colored people to exercise the privilege of voting. I am not ready to say that in the northern States this privilege ought to be extended to the colored people. Lam not prepared in the State of 1ndianato vote to extend this right to the colored people. If I thought it right to give to the colored people in Indiana the privilege of votin, it is proliable that I would support this measure, because I have no constitutional difficulties upon the matter, for I presume it is not questioned that Congress may extend or limit the right of vot in in the Territories. 0w does the measure now stand?‘ By the acts or unizing these Territories the power of control in the franchise in the Territories is given to tie Territorial Legislatures. This bill proposes to take that power away from the erritorial Legislatures, to take it away from the people of the Territories, and to exercise the power by Congress, to declare by Congress that the right of voting shall be extended to all the colored people. It presents the square, naked question, whether the right of suffrage shall be given to all the colored people of the country. The vote of each Senator, presume, will be given according to his views upon that question. If a Senator is in favor of extending the right of suffrage in every State, every where where a colored man is found, extending the right to him, he will vote for this bill; but if a Senator believes that in his own State it ought not to be extended to the colored man, of course he wi I not vote to force it upon the people of the erritories, who are as come tent, I presume, to regulate a question of his sort as the people of tie States. I believe in the doctrine that the people of the Territories ought to regulate their domestic affairs. I have voted upon that principle, and upon this particular bill I shall give my vote according to that principle. The RESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Hmms in the chair.) The question is on the motion of the Senfrom California, to postpone the bill under consideration and all prior orders and to take up the JtResolutionmentioned by him. The motion was agreed to. CHARLES BREWER AND COMPANY.