The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-03-02
The Veto of the Colorado Bill.

sage assigning his reasons for return
ing to the Senate without his sigma
ture the bill for the admission of Colo
RADIO into the Union as State, the
National Intelligencer remarks
1.-THE President refers to his veto
message of May 18th last, upon this
same subject, and not only reiterates
the objections then urged, but says
they have been greatly strengthened
by events that have since transpired,
and that there are still stronger reasons
for declining to sanction this measure.
In the former veto message the objec-
tions presented were the insufficiency
of the population of the Territory to
bear the expense of State govern
ment. the want of satisfactory evidence
that the people of the Territory de-
sired to be erected into a. State, and
the incompatibility with the public in
terests of admitting into the Union a
new State with, at most, only thirty
thousand inhabitants, and comforting
upon this number of people share in
the national legislation equivalent to
that accorded only in one branch of
Congress to one hundred and twenty
seven thousand, and in the other to
many millions of inhabitants in the
older States, while eleven of the older
States, with many millions of inhabi-
tants, are entirely excluded from repre-
sentation in Congress. These obiec-
tions have since been strengthened by
the formal protest Of the people of the
Territory, expressed through the Ter
ritorial Legislature, to being forced
into the Union against their will.
I'm this last message the President
very quietly exhibits the incongruity
of the legislation of Congress and that
of the Territory of Colorado, by allu-
ding to the laws of the Territory pro-
hibiting negroes and mulattoes from
voting, and also from acting as Jurors.
He shows conclusively that in this re-
spect the bill in question is absurdly in
conflict with the State constitution to
which it proposes to give validity, as
the latter provides that all laws in force
in the Territory at the time of the adop-
ton of the constition and the admis-
sion of the State into the Union shall
continue in force, and the bill of ad-
mission requires that there shall be no
denial of the elective franchise or any
other right to any person or race or
color, excepting Indians not taxed.
After showing that the bill proposing
to create a State Of less than thirty
thousand inhabitants is unequivooably
yiolative of the letter if not the spirit
of the constitution, and celebrating
conclusively the argument upon the
injustice and improperly of giving to
that fraction of the present ratio of
representation the right to send Sena-
tors and Representatives to Congress,
the President shows that the bill itself
is positive absurdity. and from the
very nature of its provisions can never
be executed.
This is very probably the last of
the effort to bring into the Senate two
new Senators who are expected to be
obedient to the edicts of Radiealism, for
this is the only object of the endeavor
to force new State into the Union
against the will of its inhabitants,
while ten of the old States are kept out
simply in order that Radicalism NAV
maintain majority in Congress. The
bill did not receive two-thirds majori-
ty on it's passage, and it is not posi-
Bile that more votes can be given for
it after the exposition Of facts made in
this veto message"