Mr. HENDRICKS.No. The 2 million and a half of acres do not include the Pacific railroad grant, as I understand. This is 2 and a half million acres granted to the other roads. Until we know how much is given to the Pacific railroad we cannot sa how much has been granted to the State of Kansas. The Senfrom Kansas says that the State of Kansas did not receive what was granted to the Pacific road. Was not that a grant of land in the State of Kansas to make a ver important railroad through the State; and sha l not the amount of land apptopriated for the construction of a 1st class road through her entire limits be charged to the State ofKansas? That is not to be questioned. lnde end eutly of that magnificent grant to the ncific railroad, there have been 2 and a half million acres granted to that State. Now it is asked to make an additional grant, commencing at Kansas City and running for a distance in a southwestern direction, and then in a southern direction, so as to run through the eastern tier of counties in the State of Kansas. I have another objection to this grant. I think it conflicts with a grant already made. We made a 'rant on the 3d of March. 1863, to the State of (ansas to aid in the construction of a road “ from the city ofLeavenworth. by the way of the town of Lawrence, and via the Ohio City crossin of the Usage river, to the southern line of teState, in the direction of Cal veston bay, Texas, with a branch from Law reuce, by the valley of the Wakarusa river, to the point on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad where the said road intersects the Neosho river, ” of “every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of said road and each of its branches.” By that not we granted the alternate sections to aid in the construction of a road from Leavenworth to Lawrence, and from Lawrence to the southern boundar of the State of Kansas, in the direction of Ga veston bay. I ask Senators, what is the meaning of that language in the act of 1863 “From Lawrence to the southern boundary of the' State of Kansas in the direction of Galveston bay ‘2” To understand the force and purpose of that language, it must be considere that at the time Congress used it it was known to congress that the State of Texas was constructing a road from Galveston bay in a northern direction to the northern boundary line of that State; and this road to which the grant was made in 1863 is intended to be the great connecting road between the Missouri river and the Texas road; so that there shall be an entire line of railroad from Leavenworth, on the Missouri river, to Galveston bay, in southern Texas. When completed it will be one of the greatest lines of rai way in the western country. It will pass through the great agricultural region on the Missouri river, and connect with Galveston bay in the south. Everybody, on a moment’s ins ection of the map, will see the importance of that work; and by the grant of 1863 it was the purpose of Congress to facilitate the construction of that great connecting road. Is it now the urpose of Congress by a competing grant to efeat that great work? It has been commenced, and through the agency, as I understand of the Pacific road, it has been built from Leavenworth to Lawrence, and surveys have been made south of Lawrence in the direction of Galveston bay. The purpose of the company to which the State has transferred this grant is, as I understand, to prosecute the work. The grant was made 3 years ago. Very little of the work, if any, has been done south of Lawrence, but the road has been completed from Leavenworth to Lawrence, and surveys have been made at least for a portion of the distance from Lawrence toward the State line.