Allowing five persons to a voter. we find a population at that time in Montana of 135.000. There is no doubt that the actual population considerably exceeded that number at that time. Within the last eighteen months an unusual tide of immigration has been going into Montana. and by the time. and perhaps sooner than. she can equip herself with a constitution and perform all that is required of her under the enablihg act which I propose in order to become a State. she will have a population ample and satisfactory to the most exacting. I may say that at the present time her Delegate in the House represents more voters than many of the most distinguished members now in the House of Representatives. Even the Speaker of the House himself represents a district casting not nearly so many votes as the Territory of Montana at her last election.
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