Mr. TRUMBULL. It is very manifest that there are certain members of the Senate who are determined that this matter shall not be considered. The question now is simply on taking it up, and upon that motion, in disregard of what. are the rules of the Senate, Senators have gone into a discussion as to the amount of population, and the Senfrom Massachusetts has assumed that he showed that the law authorizing the people of Coloradopto form a State government was defunct and should not be referred to and that nobody replied to it. I have no doubt he thinks so. I tried to reply to it in m feeble way. I tried to show him that in goo faith Congress was committed to the people of Colorado by that law. Of course it did not amount to anything; but it is assuming a good deal to say that nobody attempted to answer at all. N ow, sir, the enemies of taking a this measurepropose that you shall put it o foraweek. Sir, et it come up now, and let us now make it the special order for some day when it can be considered, and not when we meet here next Tuesday he opposed again by the same arguments against taking it up at all. That is w net We are met with to dny. The Senfrom Massachusetts, who called the question up, gave notice that he had no desire to have action on the bill today. He wished to call the subject up, he had made a motion to reconsider the action of the Senate that it had on a former day, and this reasonable request to call up a measure which has the support, certainly, of quite a number of Senators, and, I hope, may have of a majority, is met by the objection that it shall not come up at all and the Senfrom Massachusetts [ll Mr. Sunssu] tells us he has a eech to make. If he makes it he will make it out of order, for there is nothing in order on this question except simply suggestions as to the propriety of taking up the bill; its merits cannot be gone into. Now, let us take up the bill, and let it be agreed to postpone it to the day named by the Senfrom owa. He has made his speech; he has attacked Colorado on account of the population. I am prepared to show by a reso ntion of the Legislature of Colorado, adopted Let us fix a day. within 60 days, that they have got more than 50,000 people a solemn act of their Territorial Legislature and the Senator says they have not but 15,000. You may prejudice a case by that sort of argument when the question is not u. I hope the Senfrom Iowa. if he is wiing that we should consider the question at all, will let us take it up now and make it the special order for Tuesday next at one oclock. believe everybody will agree to that.