Mr. STEWAR. I submitted to the Senfrom Massac use tts a question at the time when he was charging that the people of colorado had acted in bad faith tower conss. That was the tenor of his argument. sorted that at the time of the passage of th enabling act they allowed negroes to vote; that after it had passed Congress and before it was signed by he President, they repealed that law and passed a law which prohibited the negroes from voting, and that they had thereby (if there is anything in the argument) deceived Congress, and that congress would not have acted as it did if there ad been a law on the statute book of Colorado prohibiting negroes from voting. I asked him what Congress had done at the same time in the case of Nevada, and he tells, me that that is irrelevant. I say that what Congress did in the same breath, at the same time, and under the same circumstances, is some evidence of their intention at that time. Nevada in 186l, had inserted the word “ white” in fixing the qualification of voters. That law was upon her statute book; the world knew it; and what did Congress do? On the 21st of March, 1864, the same day on whidl the colorado bill was passed, Congress passed an act to enable Nevada to form a State government, and in the 3rd section of that not provided as follows: “That all persons qualified by low to vote for Representatives to the General Assembl of said Icrritory at the date of the passage of this act shall be qualified to be elected and theyare authorized." the Expressly confining it to persons who were qualified by the laws of evadn to vote for members of the General Assembly. The laws of Nevada at that time expressly excluded negroes from votin, and therefore the organic not expressly prohibited the people of Nevada. from taking tile negroes into account in the organization of a State monument, and gave the wer to form the State government to a particular class. Congress did this on the same ay that the enabling act for Colorado was passed; and now the Senfrom Massachusetts would have us believe that Congress would not have passed the enabling act for Colorado if she had had such a law upon her statute book.