Mr. RAMSEY. Mr. President, in the 1st section of the enabling act, of which we have heard considerable here today, Congress used this language: “That the inhabitants of that portion of the Torritory of Coloradoincluded in the boundaries heroin after designated.be and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselvesout of said Territory. a State government.with the nameaforesaid." If, as is alleged, this act was exhausted and dead after the 1st attempt upon this subject, why did not Congress on its art then reea! this law? Here you have ha it standing from that day to this, from the 21st of March, 186 1, until this time, a standing invitation to the peo.le of Coloradopto form a State constitution. Ton have twice put these people, who the Senfrom Iowa told us are intensely poor, to the expense of forming a State constitution in obedience to the invitation of the 1st section of this act. I say that upon our part, at this time, to reject the admission of the State upon this ground would be a gross breach of faith to these people, who can very ill bear the exease of these 2 movements for admission into the Union. But, Mr. President, in additionto these reasons there is great force in the argument of the honorable Senfrom Kansas that this is a far outlyingpopnlation on the way to the Pacific, a community of which we ought not to require the same population that We ought of a community contermine us to ourselves. It is 6 or 700 miles to the city of Denver, after you reach the Missouririver. Then there is no reason why we should require of so distant a community as that the population we might require of a State quite adjacent to us. They are there; they are assisting us in carrying out our civilization and our progress west ward to the Pacific. We ought to take them by the hand; we ought to encourage them instead of the action we have had here this day. Iregret exceedingly the opposition of our friends on this side of the ease to so reasonable a request as these people have made of us. No man can say what the population of Colorado is; it is an assumption for any Senator to say that it is 20,000 or 30,000 or 40,000. The probability is just as great that it IS 50,000 or 60,000 as it is that it is 20,000 or 30,000. But after the invitation we have given, without repealing this act, we, I feel, would not be at.all justified in rejecting this application. Upon the other handit would be gross injustice to refuse the application, after having twice put them to the inconvenience and expense of making application for admission here.