Mr. BUCKALEW. If the Senator will look bdeacclkaratotion, the Congressional Globe, to his own he will see that he is mistaken. The facts that he now alleges may have existed in the case of one of them, but did not in the case of the others. There were public reasons which in the opinion of the Senator justified that legislation, and therefore he introduced it. It was not the demand of the people; it was not the clamor of a border population that moved him; it was considerations of public policy in this Government. Upon the debate on the Nebraska enabling act, April 12, 1864, the Senfrom Connecti cut [Mr. Foster] inquired whether the people of the Territory had asked to be admitted as a State, and argued that the Senate should be satisfied that a majority of the people desired it. To this the Senfrom Ohio [Mr. WADE] answered, that the people of the territory had a Delegate in the HoRep who, he supposed, fairly represented their will and their wishes. That the Delegate ought to know whether the people wanted it or not; that he had no doubt the Delegate “fairly represented the people there; but whether he did or not the bill only presented to the people the opportunity of taking upon themselves a State government, if they saw fit to do so. If they did not want a State government they were not obliged to have it.” The conclusion then, is elear, from this debate in the Globe, that there was no formal application, before the Senate by petition, memorial, or otherwise for the passage of the enabling act. The Senfrom Ohio put the question entirely upon the advocacy of the measure by the Delegate from the Territory in the House. Here, then, is the case of NewMexico with a population of 100,000. To be sure these peole are Mexicans; but are they not citizens? s there not to be equality among citizens in t.his.co.u?ntry? Have we not heard that doctrine and warmly insisted upon very recently even in this Chamber? We acquired these inhabitants, or most of them, by the treaty of peace at the conclusion of the Mexi can war, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and these inhabitants thus acquired, and who became our fellow citizens, are entitled to precisely the same right and the same favor as any other population in any Territory in the U.S. Then, sir, I insist that the argument is deci sive against the passage of the present bill; that not only is this population inadequate, not only were all the statements made to cons on the subject of population in 1864 unjustifiable, proved to have been unfounded, grossly erroneous, but you find that there are other Territories exceeding this in population as to whom no such measure as the present is proposed in Congress. Here is Utah; I. do not what the population of that Territory is; I am told by one of the Senators from Kansas that it is about 120,000. Certainly those people, or their territorial authorities in behalf of them, have applied to Congress for admission into the Union. I am not in favor of the admission of Utah as a member of the Union; I am not in favor of the admission of NewMexico with her 100,000 people as a member of the Union any more than I am in favor of the admission of a Territory with 50,000 or with 30,000 inhabitants; but for very shame's sake you must deal equally with the Territo ries. If you admit these with a population of limited numbers, low down in the scale, how can you justify your legislation before the peole of the country as well as the people of the Territories upon the ground of equality and even handed justice? You deny Utah membership in the Union: your denial perhaps is prudent and reasonable and just, but when you admit a Territory with 30,000, 1/3rd or one 4th her numbers, how can you say no to her? Mr. President, I have concluded what I proposed to say on the subject of this bill. I have spoken because I felt charged upon me the duty of discussing it. I regard it as the pio neer of a series of bills which are likely to come up for consideration in the Senate during the present and future sessions, and upon which sound opinions must be formed and maintained if representation in this Government by the several States is to stand upon a just and satisfactory foundation.