Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I rather regret that the motion was made because we have lost so much time by it. Perhaps I am as able to go on now as I should be in the morning. made no request of the Senate to adjourn, because I was unwilling to put the Senate to any inconvenience or to kec them from voting upon this bill, if they were esirons of voting upon it at this time. I am the more willing to go on now, because I have some reason to believe that some of the Senators are in a better condition than some others. They perhaps have dined. I was saying. Mr. President, when the motion was made that if the proposition had come from any memberof the Convention that Statesthere after to be admitted might be admitted if they had a population such as is the population of Colorado, the suggestion would not have received the sanction of another member of the body. Now, what is this population? The largest number that I have card it estimated at is 85,000. Of that35,000, 6,000 at least. some have stated it to be 10,000, consists of the orinal poulation of the Territory, Mexicans by birth, wholly unacquainted with our institutions, and who I understand, so far from oining in the application to have this Territory admitted as a State, are against it. But in relation to the population of 35,000, I think it will be found that in point of fact the population is mnchbelowthnt number. Ifoun thatopinion upon the vote which has been given upon the several occasions when a vote has been given in this Territory. The usual estimate is, and I believe it is found to be true, that for every vote there are in addition some 4 persons; that is to say, 5 persons furnish one vote. That is because in the general and in most of the older States the voters are heads of families or connected with families. The Senate must see that the emigrants to these new Territories for the most part do not take their families with them; they are for the most part young men, men in search of fortune, experimenting with a view to fortune, and the leave behind them their families, those who movethem; but for the most part those who go into the wilderness in search of a new home go without families and particularly those who go into a country where gold or silver is supposed to exist.