Mr. WADE. That motion to print of course involves a motion to adjourn before we take the question, if I could be made to believe that this simple proposition that is as common here in this legislative body as the common counts in assumpsit are in courts of justice, had all at once assumed a revolutionary importance, or such a degree of importance as is attributed to it, I should approach it with great fear and trembling; but I have been here a good while; several new States have been admitted into the Union since I have been here, and it was about the most peaceable proceeding we have ever had. It made no jar whatever in the body pol itic. This Territory now stands upon precisely the same footing with every other one that has been admitted since I have been here. It contains nothing more nor less than all the rest of them have contained. Gentlemen tell us that it is connected some how with our dealings with the seceded States. It has no kind of reference to them. It is an independent proposition not at all disturbed by anything that we have to do with the States that have seceded. In their reconstruction questions entirely detached and different, having no connection with this whatever, will be up. I know of no reason why we should not let this Territory come in upon the saune principles that we ever have let other Territories come in. We let in the Territory of Nevada awhile ago. It has not more population today than Nebraska. It has no element in it entitling it more to be a member of this Union than Nebraska has. It ought to have come in. It was well it did come in. I want to see these States extending in a solid column right through to the Pacific ocean, as will be done if you admit the 2 States that are now knocking at your doors. There is no great question involved in it. It seems to me that there is no necessity for that precaution that gentlemen allude to. The Senfrom Massachusetts believes it is one of the most important questions that ever came before Congress.