Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, I wish it were quite as convenient to think as to talk, for in t ought there is counsel, but in words there is often great want of wisdom. I said yesterday that on the former occasion I was in error as to facts which led me to a wrong conclusion. There is no man on this Senate floor more concerned in building u the interests of the mountains and the Paci c and the root West than myself; I have labored in it from my youth upward; but I cannot justify myself to myself in sustaining this measure, for the reasons that I will state briefly, for I do not propose to go into a discourse or make it matter of argument. This Government was organized upon a system. In this Senate Chamber each State is represented by 2 Senators, although it may be entitled to but one Representative in the other end of this building. To adjust the equilibrium was one of the great troubles of our grandsires. That for some factitious purpose a State should be introduced not possessing the Qualifications that should justify it in claiminga member of the HoRep would be a wrong upon the system as it has been best understoo. What are 7,000 votes in the Territory of Colorado? I speak with a knowledge that is not unin formed, for I have lived on the frontier from my youm7 manhood, and inhabited about that art of the world, and I was in Colorado, I liclieve, before any gentleman on this floor. 7,000 votes there would indicate a population of about 15,000, not more. t has been regarded heretofore as a rule that no State should come into the Federal Union until her population would come up to what was required by the enumeration for a member of the HoRep. I do not remember the precise number now required, but I know it is something over 100,000. 2 Senators in the Federal senate for a population of 15,000would be a great injusticeand to that injustice I cannot be a party. I did vote for this bill in the 1st instance. I did it for the reason that I want to build up the interests of the Pacific and the mountains; but I cannot on consideration agree to such a wrong. This is not a community yet established: its foundations have not yet been laid. When they are well laid, with the properpopulation, a well organized society, then they shall be of the community of States by in voice, but not now.