Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President,it seems to me that the matter of admitting a new State is one of a good deal of importance and the question whether an new State should be admitted or not ong tecrtainly to be investigated by a committee. There has been no such nvestigation in relation to the admission of Nebraska. The honorable Senfrom Ohio, he chairman of the ComTerritor, Our days ago “asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to bringin” abill; “which was read twice, referred to the ComTerritor, and ordered to be printed.” I never heard that there was to be an application for the admission of Nebraska asa State into the Union until 4 days ago when the honorable Senfrom Ohio aske and obtained leave to bring in the bill now under consideration. It. was referred to the ComTerrito ries, of which committee I am a member. Since this reference that committee has never held a session that I have been informed of. The committee have never taken the subject under consideration. According to my understanding the committee has never been convened for the purpose of considerin whether this State shonldbe admitted into teUnion Or not. The do. before yesterday my honorable friend, the chairman of the ComTerritor, came to my seat and remarked to me that he wished toreport a bill to admit Nebraska as a Stateinto the Union, and asked my consent that he should do so. Well, I told him that I would have no objection to his reporting the bill, but that I should not pledge myself to its support; on the contrary, for reasons that I assigned when the enabling act was ossed, being then upon the ComTerritor, I was opposed to the bill; butI had no objection to its being reported. But, Mr. President, at that time I did not know that there was any difficulty in relation to the election. I supposed that it was all regular, that the election had been held in conformity to the law of Congress, and that it was free from fraud. I was not advised of any objcotion whatever to the admission of the State to arise on the passage of the bill now under consideration. IfI had been of course I should have required the honorable Senator who is chairman of that committee to convene the committee for the purpose of taking the matter into consideration, and he, no doubt, would have done it very romptly. I have no question about that c has acted very fuirly, so far as I am concerned, in this matter; as tnnch so as I could desire; but I think the facts revealed at this time show not only the importance but the necessity of an investigation of this whole subject by the ComTerritor, or some other committee.