Mr. WADE. 9,136; and I was going on to say that the vote in these Territories is a very uncertain Eu.ide in forming a conclusion as to the num of the inhabitants. The population, we know, is very much scattered; they have to go a great way to. to the places where the votes are given in. Persons going into a new Territory are very much engaged in their own pursuits, and it is a great deal more of a job for them to get to the polls and vote than it is in more populous regions where the precincts are small and the voting places are convenient. For this reason the number of votes furnishes no safe guide as to the amount of population. I have here the report of the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, arriving at the conclusion which I have stated, and I have no doubt it is an underestimate. This report was made up from data furnished by the officers of the internalrevenue in that Territory, and it was made out on facts collected in April last. Since then population has gone in, and the country has filled up faster, perhaps, than almost any Territory ever has done. I suppose there are now several 1,000 more ol. in Nebraska than there were at the time this calculation was made. They have as much as 300 miles of railroad in Nebraskatoday, running through toward the Rocky mountains, and there is another railroad approaching the Territory from another quarter, and which is to go right through it, although it has not yet got very far in the Territory. It has all the facilities for growing up into a great and flourishing State. It has a great extent of arable and S.land. Its railroad facilities, its facilities for market, the navigation afforded by the Missouri river, all these circumstances give it as favorable a position as almost any other Territory that has knocked at your door for admission and has been admitted. At the election on the constitution the vote for admission was 3, 938, and the vote against it was 3, 838, being a majority of 100 in favor of the proposition. That vote was taken during the summer, in harvest time, when the men were engaged at work, and did not turn out to vote. It was taken a year ago, I think.