Mr. SUMNER. Since that resolution was before the Senate my attention has been particularly called to its character by a gentleman who is very much interested in it, who is himself a foreigner by birth and very familiar with the ways in which foreign population should be approached. He thought that the publication of all the Land Report, with which he was very familiar he had read it and thought it a very fine report but he thought that its publication and translation into foreign languages would be entirely unnecessary; indeed, that it would be useless, that there was but one part of it that would be of any essential service in promoting emigration; that was the part relating specially to the homestead law and the sale of public lands; that all the rest would be regarded as irrelevant and out of place, and that it would be a useless expense. He thought that our purpose would be better accomplished if we should provide for the publication of only the part to which I have referred. That would of course be less expensive, and it would be more sure of being read and of attracting attention. I unite with my friendfrom Minnesota in a desire to put before the people of foreign countries the nowledge to which he refers; but I wish that it should be done in the way the most econom ical and the most practical, and he knows as well as I that very important facts and information may be lost as it were in an immense mass of published matter, which people will not read. If you wish to produce an effect and to reach people, make your reports short, direct, prac tical, and print only that which bears directly on the points which you have in hand. I throw out these remarks now for the consideration of my friendfrom Minnesota. I do not wish to interfere with the resolution at all. I am in favor of its adoption in such form as after consideration shall be deemed best; but I do submit to him that the resolution in the present form will carry us into a needless expense, and will not in the end accomplish so much good as the publication of a small part of the report.