Mr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. If this bill is to be recommitted, I wish to accompany the recommitment with certain instructions to correct some defects which I apprehend exist in the bill. One of the objections I have to the bill has already beenmentioned by my colleague, [Mr. Kassos] that is the tying up of these lands and precludin them from settlement and improvement. Ilive in a congressional district where we have nearly 4 in 1011 acres of land tied up by railroad grants, by agricultural college grants, and by swamp land tied up entirely from settlement and improvement, and the whole country is being injured in consequence of it; and Wish to prevent any occurrences of this character in nture grants. I therefore move to amend the motion to recommit by adding instructions that a proviso be added that the lands hereby anted shall be h subject to preemtion under the preem ition laws of the U.S., the money reaized from such sales to be paid over to the States entitled, to the lands and then, in regard to the question of granting these lands to Territories, I do not think it is advisable to make a grant of 90,000 acres of land to each of the present organized Territories. In some of our Territoriest e population is very limited; perhaps it will be found that in some of the Territories the population of white resident inhabitants does not exceed 3000. I think it would be wrong to confer upon a Territory with such a sparse poulation a grant of 90,000 acres of Ian, as this bill proposes. lie probabilities are that if you should make a grant of that kind to a Territory with only that population, before 5 years nearly all of these and s would be squan dered and misapplied to purposes not intended by the original grant. Now, for the purpose of obviating any difficulty of that kind I desire to propose another instruction to the committee, to provide that the land hereby granted to the Territories shall not be incumbered or disposed of until said Territories are admitted into the Union as States.