The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-18
THE ADMISSION OF COLORADO.
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+ The following, is the Presidents
message vetoing the Colorado admisI
sion bill Vsia sgs9osz sl,t i1s9 o e,lg :
To use Senate of tbe Bnited St0tes:o %
/ return to the, Senate, in which.
House it originated, the bill which has
passed both Houses of Congress, en-
titled " An act for the admission of
| The State of Colorado into the Union,
with my objections, to its becoming, q,
Irlaw atgthis tIme.2G = ssSi isAfSUS on
! 1. From the'best informationiwhich
II haybG been able to obtain, | do not
consider the establishment of a State
! llGovernnienJ at present necessary for
| the welfare of the people of Colorado
Under the existing Territorial Gov
lfernment, all therIghts privileges and
Interests of the ,citizepsr are. protected.
! and Secured. The Sualifedn voters
fehoose their own legislatures and
Their own local officers, and are repre-
l-sentedl inh Congress- by delegateuofi
/ Their own, selection, Is They make and
ekeeufel their own municipal laws
subject only, toAr6vision by GOngressg
an authority not likely to be exer-
cised, unless in extreme or extraor
dinary cases. ~ SEsET W.TT
The population, is small some estl-
mates being as low as 25,000, while
the advocates of the bill place sthei
number at from 30, 900 to 10000. The
people are principally recent settlers,
many Of whom are understood to be
ready for removal to other mining
districts beyond the limits of the Ter
ritory If circumstances .shalIslrender
! them more inyiting. Such population
| cannot but find relief from excessive
taxation the territorial system,
which devolves the expenses Of the
exechtiye, legislatives and Judicial edeF
partments upon the United States, Is,
fbr the present, continued. They can
not but find the security ofperson and
property lincreased By theif1 reliance
upon the National Executive power
for the maintenance of law and order
against the disturbances necessarily
incident to an newly organized dscona-
Inunities.
/ 2. tits not satisfactorily established
that majority of the citizens of Col
orado are prepared for change from
Territorial to a State Government.
In September, 1864, under the author
ity of Congress-, an election was law
fully appointed and held, for the pur-
pose Of ascertaining the views of the
people upon this particular question.
E 6,192 votes were cast, and of this num-
3 Der majority of 3,182 were given
d against the proposed change aa In Sep
4 tember, 1866, without any legal au-
i thority, the question was again pre-
! sented to the people of the, Territory,
with a view of obtaining a reconsid-
!, Grafton of the resultof the election,
j; held in compliance with the act OF
!, Congress, approved March 21,. 1864
At this second election, 5,905 votes
were polled, and small majority oil
l55 was given IN favor of a State or
ganization 1t does not SEEM to me
& entirely safe to permit this last men
| toned result, so irregularly obtained,
: to outweigh the one which had been
: legally obtained in the first election
! / Regularity and conformity TO law ware
essential to the preservation of order
) and a stable government, and should
q as far as practicable, always be OBJ
: served in the formation of new States
t 3. The admission of Colorado at this
f time, as State, into the Union, ap
e pears to me to be incompatible with
the public interest of the country
it is desirable that Territories
s when sufficiently matured, should be
$ organized asaStates, yet the spIrlteol
e the Constitution seems to require tina
e there should be an approximation to
!: ward equality among the severa
: States comprising the Union. NJ
3 State can have less or more than twt
|. Senator'S in Congress- The larges
t State has population Of four mil
: lions. Several other States have |
e population Exceeding two millions
T and many others haze a population ex :;
I ceeding one million. IF sthis.@bil
Z should become law, the people o
3 Colorado, ,sthirty thousand in. number
4 would havein the House of Repre
e sentatives one member. while aNev
I York, with populasioR of four mil
: lions, has but thirty-one. Colorado
{ would have-in the electoral colleg'
three. votes, while New York hasonl..
: thirty-three. !. &C Colorado would have i
the Senate two votes. while News Yori
has no more. inequalities OF thi
e character have already. occur
|, red, but it Is believed that non
, have existed where the inequality wa