Mr. POMEROY. I will state one thing more. When my own State had a.population of 106,000 we never polled, when we voted honestly, more than 18,000 votes. No people can exceed that proportion. Now, as to the irregularity of this proceeding, this is not the 1st time that a State has come here irre ularly. I have before me the remarks of but the Senators from Massachusetts and other gentlemen on that side of the Chamber when Kansas came here under the To eka constitution as it was called, when we ha not been 2 years a Territory, and those gentlemen not only espoused our cause with a population less than this, but the free States all over espoused it and sustained the views taken by leading Senators at that time. That constitution was as irregular as an constitution could be. It originated entire y with the people. We were eudeavoring to throw off the tyranny of a territorial government, and we had the generous support and sympathy of the leading members of, the Senate who were then here and who are here now. I wish to say to the Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Sunsna] that the speech made by him on the 20th of Ma:, 1856, which I have before me in the A en IX to the Congressional Globe, immortaized him, so fares the people of Kansas were concerned. He was, perhaps, sufficiently immortalized without it, but by that speech he endeared himself to Our people. Although le under not poll that effort to admit Kansas failed at the time, yet, I think, it committed those who were lll favor of that irregular organization and small population to the support of any other people who should be thus struggling in the future. l have but a word to say in reference to the amendment the Senfrom Massachusetts offered yesterday. I confess that I should like to have had some such amendment adopted. I am only sorry that when the enabling act was before the Senate the Senator did not insert that amendment in it. The enablin act received the vote of the Senfrom It assachusetts, and so did the organic act. We said in the enabling act that the laws then existing in the TerritOry might govern the election, and the laws then existing prohibited colored men from; voting, and we reenacted that over again in the enabling act.