Mr. POMEROY. If that question is asked of the Senfrom Massachusetts particularly, I shall not answer it. I will close what I have to say, because I know the Senate are anxious to take a vote. I say the qualification for voting in this Territory was given them by Congress; that in the organic act they had permission to do what they have done, I am sorry to say, exclude colored citizens from the right of suffrage. In the enabling act the law of the territory was made the law of suffrage. That question has got beyond our control. Iam sorry that it has, for I should like to vote with the Senfrom Massachusetts onthatsubject, but I cannot do it as applicable to this Territory. I repeat, therefore, that no point can be made with reference to the irregularity of these proceedings. In reference to their want of population, all I can say is, that they proxi mate toward and are in the neighborhood at any rate of that number of population that we have always required. No specific number has ever been required. These people are now regularly organized. All parties in the Territory acquiesce in the State government. There is no party there, as far as can learn, hostile to it. I know I have just received a letter from Judge Wilcox, a distinguished citizen who went there from my own State, in which he says there is not a public man there unless he holds an office under the territorial government, opposed to it. I presume no question will be raised here as to the loyalty of the people of Colorado, because they volunteered largely, they helped us through the war, and they have sent here 2 of the most loyal, consistent, and earnest Republicans (if that is any test of loyalty) that they have in the Territory. The Senfrom Massachusetts made some allusions yesterday to some letters which he had received in reference to these gentlemen personally. I will offset that by sayin that my own acquaintance. with them exten s many years back. One of these gentlemen was a distinguished citizen of my own State, who was always engaged with us in the free State cause. He was an antislavery man long before that. He has an O mo and bold record Track as far as 1848, and I0not believe that we need go back beyond that to establish the loyalty or antislavery character of any man. These gentlemen have never deviated or changed their opposition. They have never assumed any other position than that of the most radical, loyal, devoted, and earnest men for the country and the Government. I state this simply and solely because the Senfrom Massachusetts said that he had received some letters that reflected on their character. I do not believe any such letters. I intend to vote for this bill, and I hope we shall take the vote upon it and close the question.