Mr. FARNSWORTH. I have no earthly doubt of it; no more than that we may enforce upon the people of a Territory, without their consent, a declaration in the act incorporating the Territory saying who shall vote, who shall be qualified to hold office, and who shall be elected to the territorial Legislature. Until that Territory becomes a State of this Union the power of Congress over it is sovereign. Nebraska is not a State until we have passed an act admitting her and she has assumed the powers and functions of a State. Now, we are talking about passing an act admitting her, and we are talking about imposing conditions upon her. Why, I ask, have we not a right to insert a provision like that? Gentlemen ask if Congress should pass an act declaring suffrage shall be impartial in the Territory of Nebraska forever, could that people when they become a State deprive any of her people of the right of suffrage? o, sir; the act of Congress would govern until Congress repealed it. Neither the territory nor State of Nebraska could repeal it. It is sought by the amendment to impose upon the people of Nebraska just exactly what is sought to be imposed upon the people of other States. What is it? Why, sir, the Legislative Assembly of Nebraska has no more authority to bind the people of that State than Congress. The only vitality and power the Legislature gets is from an act of Congress. We give to: State its charter; we give to it all its powers. It can exercise no power except what Congress has given to it. It seems to me that any other theory robs Congress and the Government of the U.S. of the sovereignty which it has over the people of a Territory; and therefore I repeat what I said in the outset, that I believe a provision in an act of Congress in regard to negro suffrage, such as is contained in the 3rd section of this bill, will be more binding upon the people of that State than could a provision inserted in the constitution of that State when admitted. So, sir, I would rather have the bill as it came from the Senate than with the amendment offered by the Gentfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. Boutwell]