Mr. HENDRICKS. Certainly, Iundeistand that, and I did not wish to be understood as saying that speculators would be as likely to bu land with money at $1 25 an acre as to locate it with scrip which costs them 80 cents. My purpose was to say just this: that it gives the same opportunity, and no greater opportunity than is given by the agricultural college law, or the bounty land warrant law. It is the purchaser of the scrip who makes the location. wants to go into the western country to buy lands; he finds this scripin market at 8 centsanacre, and he buys it or uses it, whether or purposes of speculation or for the purpose of a homestead cannot say. There are many citizens who would prefer to buy this scrip when they wish to get a homestead in the western country, rather than locate under the revisions of the homestead bill. I was an advocate of that bill when a member of the other House and if I had been in Congress at the time of its passage, I should have voted for the homestead bill; but there is a serious difficult in the location of lands anywhere under the homestead bill. Actual settlement and continued occupation for a series of years, I think 5 years, are required before the settler gets a title. If I were going to make a home and a farm in the western country, ifI could possibly raise the money to buy the scrip at cig ty cents and locate it on the land, I would prefer it rather than have my title held up in the GLO 5 years, and at the end of that time have to prove continued occupation and improvementthrough a series of years. I have not been in favor of appropriatin the public lands to any purposes outside of the and States themselves, and therefore had I been in Congress I should nc, in all probability, have voted for the agricultural college bill, but Iain not able to see how any Senator who supported that measure can oppose the present measure. This bill proposes to use the public lands to edu cate the children of the DistCol. Is that a purpose to which the Government of the U.S. is willing to lend its aid and support? This DistCol is under the legislation of Congress, and if the District were a part of a State in which there werepublic lands, I should certainly vote for such a measureas this; but having no interest in the public lands, except as its citizens form a portion of the population of the U.S., I am not willing to vote for it for that simple reason. But the framework of the bill is not subject to the objections that have been suggeste, as I think. If the DistCol could go out into Kansas and locate 40 miles square, the objection of the Senfrom Kansas would have very great force, itwould certainly control the action of congress; but if the DistCol is sim y authorized to issue scrip and sell it to all the persons who may wish to buy lands there for homes or for other purposes, the bill is certainly not objectionable to the reasons so earnestly urged by the Senfrom Kansas.