The PRESIDENT protempore. The SenJ States. In Indiana before we have a Representative in the House, in Iowa before they have a Representative in the House, it must appear that there are about 123,000 people in the district I think that is about the proportion now 5 times as many people as the census of 1861 shows there were in the Territory of Colorado. Now, is it possible that we propose to bring into the Union, with all the political power of a State, a Territory having a population but one 5th sufficient to entitle it to a Representative in the HoRep? There has been no such case before. When Oregon was admitted, it was claimed by her Delegate that she had a population of 60,000 or 70,000. When Nevada was admitted, I understand the vote was about 17,000, more than 3 times as large a vote as this in Colorado. I did not intend to occupy the time of the Senate upon this question. I only intended to state the ground on which I oppose this bill. I.gree with the Senfrom Iowa in theo inion that it is not for the interest of a new territory to come in as a State before it is sufficiently ripe, before it is grown and acquired sufficient strength easily to bear the burdens of a State government. This is a cculiar population in the territory of Colors. 0. It is not such a poulation as settled in Iowa and Indiana. 1n ndiana and Iowa, when the people went there, they took their families with them, and every man represented perhaps 5persons; they settled down there, made farms established homes, and became a fixed and stable people. But in Coloradopthe main bus iness is mining, and there are very few families there, as the census shows. They are a migratory people, going wherever the inducements carry them, seeking opportunities to pursue the business of mining. This people so unstable, so unfixed, and but 25,000 of them at the largest showing, ask the political power of one of the great States of this Union. I should be glad to admit any western State into the Union, and should vote cheerfully for it as soon as I thought they were prepared for it. I desire to see a strength grow up in the West. Our interests are in that direction. We hope eventually to see western interests well supported by these States that are at some time to be formed among and along the borders of the mountains; but shall not vote to admit a State to the same political power that Indiana possesses, when it does not represent in point of population a 5th of the population of one of our congressional districts.