Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, the debate has taken a very wide range and the proposition has taken several shapes. I do not wish just at this moment to make any extended remarks, but I feel called upon by what the Senfrom Massachusetts i. WILson] has said in submitting his amendment to say a word or two. He asks me whether I will accept the amendment which he proposes. To this I have to say that the amendment as drawn by myself accords more nearly with my own idea of what is the best mode of arriving at it; still I am not tenacious about the forms in which the object shall be achieved. I understand that there are other amendments, pending or proposed to be offered, one of which proposes to enforce this as a condition precedent by attaching penalties to any who shall violate it. That would be another shape in which this might be enforced. The present amendment as presented by myself designs to submit it to a vote of the people. The amendment of the Senfrom Massachusetts designs to submit it, as was done in the case of Missouri, to a vote of the Legislature. My own view of this matter is that it would derive its force and its efficacy rather from the act of Congress which we might pass, and thus become a fundamental clause in that act, than from the mere mode of assent which it might receive from the people through their Legislature, or through their direct popular vote. That its force and its efficacy would inhere in it by virtue of the congressional act of the fundamental clause therein contained. And therefore I am not so very tenacious about the modes in which it may be arrived at; still I do want to get something that will be effica cious. Now, it is proper and right to say in regard to the amendment which has been submitted by the Senfrom Massachusetts, and which is a copy of the Missouri resolution, that that resolution has been efficacious up to this day. That resolution was placed upon the State of Missouri; it was assented to by the Legislature of that State, and it has never been violated by the people of the State nor I believe has it ever been decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. However, I desire to say that I think the questions which are involved here are of too great a magnitude to be driven through under any pressure for the purpose of getting this State at once into the Union. I do not think that the ultimate object to be attained, the get ting of Nebraska into the Union, will be for warded one particle by undertaking to press it through in this manner at this time, in advance of a deliberate consideration of all these questions. Now, I for one should like to have some little time to examine these various propositions that are to be submitted and whose view is to harmonize our own friends in their position. Unquestionably the Republican party of this country has got to take a ground on the whole suffrage question, as relating to the Terri tories and as relating to the States, that will be inconsistent with the position taken here in the State of Nebraska. I would like to harmonize the party in its positions on that subject. I should like to have the necessary delay for concert and for consultation and for examination, and therefore, sir, I will move that the Senate do now adjourn.