the constitution, when formed, should be submitted to a vote of the
people. It was held by those most intelligent on the subject that, in
view of all the difficulties surrounding that Territory, the danger of
any experiment at that time of a popular vote, it would be better there
should be no such provision in the Toomb's bill; and it was my
understanding, in all the intercourse I had, that the Convention would
make a constitution, and send it here, without submitting it to the
popular vote."

Then Trumbull follows on:

"In speaking of this meeting again on the 21st December, 1857
[Congressional Globe, same vol., page 113], Senator Bigler said:

"'Nothing was further from my mind than to allude to any social or
confidential interview. The meeting was not of that character. Indeed, it
was semi-official, and called to promote the public good. My recollection
was clear that I left the conference under the impression that it had
been deemed best to adopt measures to admit Kansas as a State through the
agency of one popular election, and that for delegates to this
Convention. This impression was stronger because I thought the spirit of
the bill infringed upon the doctrine of non-intervention, to which I had
great aversion; but with the hope of accomplishing a great good, and as
no movement had been made in that direction in the Territory, I waived
this objection, and concluded to support the measure. I have a few items
of testimony as to the correctness of these impressions, and with their
submission I shall be content. I have before me the bill reported by the
senator from Illinois on the 7th of March, 1856, providing for the
admission of Kansas as a State, the third section of which reads as
follows: