Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, there are considerations lying about thisquestion which I have not yet heard presente to the Senate. It is a singular feet that we here hardly know anything that is west of us. East of the Alleghanies they know more about Europe, Asia, and Africa than they do about the Mississippi valley or the mountains on my own coast. That has been an observation made by all men who have lived in western countries. A ain, Mr. President, we are developin in the vest the virgin land of the world. at land, particularly in the mountains and among the minerals, gold and silver and the metals of the Rocky mountains and the Sierra Ne vada, is not understood at all here. It has been ofimport to California that she was early recognized as a State to legislate in and about her own business and in and about the business of her population. Colorado cannot be legislated about here, nor can the accidental circumstances of a territorial administration answer her full purpose. It is another fact that I care to observe, that NCarolina and NewHampshire do not want the legislation that she wants. An appropriation o a naval store keeperor someting of that sort will suffice for them; but the new States as they ow up and spring into existence require legislation, and therefore representation. It was the practice of someoof the Old States formerly to invent ways against legislation, because they needed none, whereas the new States do need it. For that cause they need representation here. colorado now, as I am informed, has a population much larger than many of the Territories that have been admitted as States into this Union. I do not remembera single State admitted into the Union that came up to the rule stated by the Senfrom Ohio. His own State did not come up to it when she was admitted from the Territory of the Northwest; Indiana did not: Illinois did not; Iowa did not; Wisconsin did not. It has been regarded as a point of observation rather than a rule of conduct, I have no doubt that Colorado will be infinitely stronger maintaining herself as a State government than being a mere territorial dependent, just as Cal fornia with 45,000 population became stronger, much stronger, not being a territorial dependent, but being a State of the Union.