Mr. BUCKALEW. I have seen a number of very strong statements in the newspapers regarding the recent election in Nebraska, but I have not examined them with care, and am i not, therefore, able to state to the Senate the ‘, particular potnts made. I think. however, that one of the allegations made against the elecltion was that a number of unqualified Indiana had voted. At all events, I was sufficiently impressed by seeing thosa statements in a number of newspapers, and repeated. to be convinced that the election held in that Territory required examination, required investigation; and I took it for granted that whenever the subject came up in the Senate, if it came up at all, we should have some definite information to enable us to form an opinion with regard to the fairness of the election and the consequent validity of the constitution alleged to have been adopted. But, sir, that election is recent, and this bill is brought in within 4 days of the end of the session without any previons notice or knowl edge of members of ‘ongress, of the people of the Territory, or of the people of the country, and now we are hurried to a vote upon it this mornin without any information, without a possibility of any information except such as we can pick up of a fragmentary character during the progress of the discussion. The Senfrom Ohio [ML t'snn] seems to be unprovided with full information upon the subjects that are involved in this debate. He has a statement nntde by the SecyTcrritory and dated within a day or two, a certificate about the number of votes given at. the election, a certificate given here in the city of Washington. Then you have a general cer tificate of the Governor of the Territory that a certain number of votes were cast on the constitution; and that is all the information we have. The ComTerritor have never met and considered the subject; they have never made an investigation. In an informal manner there was an agreement among the members thatthe chairman might reportthis bill, and he brings it in here. These are the facts relating to the introduction of this measure, and there is aGeneral impression upon the minds of members who have spoken in the debate that this election requires mvestigation. requires some examination. Yet, sir, strange to say, aniotion to refer the subject to the ComJudiciary, for the simple purpose of inquiring into it, is resisted, and resisted, too, when there is no practical objection to such a present disposition of the subject, because these members are not required here to assist us in the enactment of laws; their services will not be required during the vacation between the present and the next session of Congress; and unquestionably before that next session full and complete information can be obtained by the intel igent committee which we have organized for such purposes, and they can inform us promptl on our reassembling how the facts really stand: and we can then vote upon the question of admission aml do justice to both the ieople of the Territory and to the people of the U.S. whom we represent. It seems to me that the argument is decisive, is conclusive, in favor of the ending motion which has been submitted by the Senutor from Indiana. But. sir, as it seems that the immediate admission of this Territory as a State is to he insisted upon, and we are to be driven to a determination upon the direct question, if the Senfrom Ohio can attain his object. I will go On and submit some further remarks. It seems by this recent certificate given at Washington by the SecyTerritory, that at the election on the 2d of June of the present year the number of Votes given for Representative in Congress from Nebraska. was 8,084. The vote on the constitution at the same time stood as follows: in favor of the constitution 3, 1138, against the constitution 3, 838, showing an apparent majority of 100, and a total vote of 7, 776. How large a population in that Territory does that vote indicate? We may refer. upon this point, to the ease of Colorado which was before as at the present smsion. In Colorado the vote in 1861 amounted to about 10.000, and that same your a census of the inhabitants of the Territory was taken showing the whole number to be 23,000. In the case. then;of Colorado, the population of the Territory was 2 and a half times as great as the number of voters, when the vote was 10,000 the population was only 25,000. I Now, sir, we have in the case of Nebraska a total number of votes amounting to 8,000; yet it would be inaccurate to draw a strict analogy between these 2 cases, because in Colorado the population was made up of miners, and in Nebraska there is an agricultural population. Therefore you cannot make the some calculation; but suppose that on assume that there are 5 times as many inhabitants in the Territory as there were voters at this election, that would only give you a population of 40,000 for this Territory, and I take it for granted that that is the utmost extent to which you can carry the number. Judged by this vote, taken on the 2d of June, the number of inhabitants in the Territory of Nebraska cannot exceed 40,000, and it is very possible that it may fall somewhat short of that, because we know the Generalrule to be that in new Territories and in new countries the relative population between males and females is different from what it is in settled communities.