The Secretary read the following memorial: WASHINGTON, D. 0., January 29, 1866. To the honorable Senate and HoRep in Cbnarcu assembled. Your memorialists having been chosen to represent the people of Colorado in Congress, and having been requestedby.tbe ir State Legislature elect to present their application for the admission of the State into the men. respectfully represcut: That the peopleof Colorado desiresaid admission in accordanceWith the provismns of the enabling not of Congress approved March 21, 1864.asisprovided inSonate b1i No. 74, now pending. That the}protest presented to your honorable body againstone i admission.purporting to befromcolored citizens of Colorado is without signatures, the names being printed thereon.And your memorialistshave satisfactory assurances that many of and nameswere thus usedWithout the knowledge or consent of the parties, and that they have exrcssed dissatisfaction theremth. Arid furt or, that the leadingmanamong them regrets his inconsiderate action and hassince expressedin writing a desire for the admnssionof the State notivithstanding his protest. Your mcmorialists would further call your attention to the fact that this petition makes several misrepresentations in its statements. It representsthat t"he framin and adoption of the Constitution were accomplised by the utmost recklessness and disregard of law and in many cases by actual fraud.” The truth is, the convention that framed the constitution was composed of alargo bodyof the best men in the Territory. Its deliberations were conducted in good order. With cure and marked ability. This is shown by its jonrnal of proceedings and the admirable constitution it adopted which has c nllenged Universal approbation, egccpting the franchise clause. on account of its retaining the word "white" in its iQnucaolimficpalitaionnese. White hetlheect liaownss wreecreuhlaetlidua: nedlceocntidounestiend the consideration, the the Territory by an ordinanceof the convention. Instead of haying been carried by fraud the vote on the constitution was universally received as ii fair verdict, and all parties yielded a ready assent to it. They all actedin good faith in the subsequent proceedings under the constitution. After the vote on its adoption was known. The elections for member of Congress, State officers and members of the Legislature were participated in by all parties, in all parts of the territory, in good faith, proving a heart assent to the adoption of the constitution and the Legislature elect met to do some U.S. Senators, as provnled for hyprdinaiice, every member being present, and participating in its DTOCOOdIDRS and further, it is not triie. as the language of the protest implies, that thereis anything in the constitution excluding colored children from public schools. Nor is thereanything in its provisions restricting the colored man from the fu ll cmoyinent of all the immunjtics rights and privileges of white men. ox cepting e privil esof the elective franchise; rind for this, an all e its previsious, the constitution providesa ready mode of amendment. We make this notice of the protest becauseof the attention it has attracted lest our silence might be rescaled us an assentto the correctnessof its state inen. We further iemark that it is believed hat the privilcizesought to be securedto the few colored men of Colorado(they do not probably exceed 100 or 150 in all) can bemore readily and speedil attained by the present admission of the State than y its reJection. The people of Colorado having. at great expense of timean labor, orgiinized their State government. afterhavmg beeninvitedto do so by not of Congress having complied with all the essential conditions on oiirriout the spirit of said act, we respectfullysub. mit whether it would be right to set aside their work and deprive them of 1l8 advantages for n doubtful pros not of sooner securing the elective franchise to the few colored peoplethat reside among them. We respectful y suggest whether it would be Just and right that the greatand permanent interestsof an eminently loynl and patriotic community, which is destined soon to be one of the most productive wealthy and sopulous among the new States, should be disregarde or set asi doen account of a featurein its State constitution which is foundin those of a 14 out of the 25 loyiil States of the Union and especially after no intimation against folloiving their examplewas liven to the peoplein their ena mzact. It is believed by the people of Colorado that their admission as a State into the Union will eatly promote their prosperity by givinig inereus confidence in their public institutions; so stituting a stable and permanent government by we people for the temporary government provided for them. That their paramountinterest.mining the recious metals. being peculiar furnishes special an strong reasons wh they should goyern themselves and it is believed thut this encourazcment in the promotion of their interestsis of great national importance more especially at this time. when an in erease in the domesticproduction of bullion is looked to with so much hope as a means of strengthening the public credit and improving the condition of the financesof the country. Confidinia in the nssurnncp given by the enabling act, that the Government is ready to admit them, believing themselvesto be fully able and competent to assume the burdensand. meet the responsibilities of a State government and feeling that their undoubted loyalty and tried patriotism entitle them to fully ask to icople of Colorado res c ct beadmitteca. sa State into the men without any other conditions than those that have already been imposed by Congress, and cheerfully OOWlled with on their part. e have the honor to be. very respectfully your obedient servants, J JOHN CIEIAvFsInLsE. U.S. Senators elect for Colorado. G. M. CHILCOTT. Representative to Congress elect from Colorado.