Mr. TRUMBULL. Yes, an outside thing. The political parties, through their executive committees, got together and agreed upon it, and all the people submitted to it. Now, what is the substance of the thing? The substance of the thing is to know whether the people of Colorado have got together and formed a State constitution in accordance with this enabling act. Ifyou will look at the State constitution you will find that all the requirements of the enabling act are complied with. Everything in regard to slavery, everything in regard to public lands, everything in record to the tol eration ofreligion, everything that was required as a condition by Congress on the part of the people of Colorado in the formation of their State constitution, the people of Colorado have literally comlied with. But, says teSenfrom Indiana, the men were not properly elected to the convention; they were not elected in the right way, he thinks. Is it at all material how they were elected to the convention, if there was an acquiescence of the people and does he doubt that in the mode that was adopted? Above all, if their work was submitte to the people, and they approved it, would the Senfrom Indiana, or would any of us, higgle for one moment as to the manner in which a constitution was formed, if the people adopted it by a direct vote of their own as their constitution? Suppose that John Locke had written the constitution; or suppose that the people of Colorado were numerous enough to satisfy the Senfrom Indiana; suppose he were satisfied there were 200,000 people there today, and instead of holdinc a convention, the organs of the 2 politicaIparties, if you please, were to agree that the would adopt the constitution of Indiana as eir constitution, simply changing the name of the State so as to make it applicable to the people of colorado as their constitution, I ask if he would then reject their admission into the Union simply because they had not elected delegates properly to form the constitution? The substance of the thing is to ascertain whether it is the work of the people of Colorado. All the rest is machinery. Vhat we want. to know is the final wish of that people. That we ascertain by their votes; and this work was performed under these circumstances by representatives fairly chosen. They have presented a constitution republican in form, unexcction able except so far as the Senfrom Liiissachusetts excepts to it, because the word “white” is contained in it; and they were bound to have it in that way. They could not have it any other if they complied with the enabling act, because the enabling act provided that All personsqualified by law to votefor representatives to the General Assemblyof said Territory at the date of this act shall be qualified to be elected and are hereby authorized to vote for and cheese representativesto form a convention;" and the law of the Territory at that time did n ot allow any but white persons to vote. But, says the Senfrom Massachusetts, when we passed that enabling act we did not know that everybody did not vote. I should like to ask the Senfrom Massachusetts if when he voted for that enabling act, if he did vote for it, he had any information that negroes were allowed to vote. I understand that it is not true that negroes ever voted there.