Mr. LANE, of Kansas. After years of ef fort we succeeded in grafting upon our laws the principle of homesteads. It was along contest. 111852 I remember voting for it in the lower House. So far as this bill goes it repeals the homestead principle. Most of the Senators are aware of the great injury that the holding of leads by non-resident speculators inflicts on the bill, and am for the homestead bill. new States. The Senfrom Iowa has expressed that idea. It is the greatest infliction that can be visited on a new State. This scrip will depreciate in value, o into the hands of speculators, the land will e entered by them; and I desire to sag est that most of the land will be located in the State that I represent. We are the only State now that has large quan tities of desirable public land; and the idea of locating a million acres of land in the State of Kansas, o. body of land 40 miles square, to be held indefinitely by non-residents is mon strous. Let me tell the Senfrom Massachnsetts this is educating the children of this District at the expense of the children of Kansas and the new States. We cannot establish schools where such an amount of non-resident land is held. The Senfrom Massachusetts will not vote more heartily a sum of money to educate the children of this District than I will. Let us do directly what he proposes, and vote the money. I was not aware that such a bill was before the ComPubLands, or I should have certainly appeared before that committee and protested in the name of my State and my constituents against it. It is true, as stated by the Senfrom Iowa, that so far as the mone to be realized from this land scrip is concerne, it will be nothing. The proposition is to allow a million acres of land to e held in the new States by non-residents, resultin in no benefit to the children of this District. ask Senators to pause before passing this bill. Announcing my willingness to vote any amount of money out of the public Treasury that is necessary to educate the children of this District without distinction of color, I ask the Senate to pause before assin this bill.