Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, in the person of whom the Senfrom Michigan speaks I have great confidence, but notwithstanding that, in my judgment, this resolution is an unwise resolution. It is giving a power into the hands of the Federal Executive which, used with great wisdom, might be used well; biita powerwithwhichhenee not beiutrusted, and is being intrnsted therewith will be, in my judgment, of no value for our safety against the contagious that some people think threaten us. Iam of the opinion that cholera is the child of fear, and not the offspring of contagion. I am of the opinion that all this business can be best conducted in the localities where it is best understood. Suppose a contagious disease should come across the Pacific and approach our western shores, what would the POTUS or his council know of it? Nothing. If it should come in man sections of the southern coast, what would they know of it? I say again, nothing. The philose by of this disease is not yet altogether understood among the most wise, the means of the world. Men have their own a eculations upon it. I have mine, I minged with it in its 1st advent into the U.S. I saw it face to face, and I saw it without fear, and therefore I did not get it. This thin of legislating against estilences is mere chil s play, shooting chil s arrows at the moon. In localities it is well that they, taking care of their particular localities, guard themselves; but or the Federal Government to undertake such administration is a piece of absolute folly. People seem to forget, and Senators seem to forget, that we are a nation embracing a vast continent; that in the details of physical economy the man who lives in Bos ton knows nothing of the condition of the men who live at Stouis and NewOrleans, and much less of those who live at SanFrancise o. To undertake to establish rules and regulations here, to be administered at the center of this Federal Government, with regard to physical economy, is absolute folly. cience as not {own so large as to be able to instruct men ow to teach these things at such distances. It is in opinion that the tubesthemselves who have the charge of their own domestic police (for this is but a lice regulation, and the police government belongs to the States and not to the Federal Government will be best able to ascertain what, imme iate necessity demands and act it with prudence and not with this extened power. If it be proposed by Senators to consolidate the Government and place it in the hands of one man, then I remember it has been said J that one man, a wise man, governing a nation is better than a nation governed by a multi tude; but that is not our system of government, and it is not the way we were established formerly. This resolution, as it stands, places a vast power that may be handled simultaneously by the executive otheers without limit, without restraint, and for what purpose God Almight will know when the thing has been done. Iyt is wrong in principle, and against the whole policy of our Government. he whole proposition is radically wrong. I only advance these observations because it is we 1 for us once in a while to recur to the priiiciplesu on which our GOverument is based.