Mr. WADE. Certainly, pay for all the land they t. They are anxious to pay for it. If the 0 not pay for it they do not get it; and ift ey do pay or it they do not get it unless the make 1500 tons of iron a year, an it all comes back to the U.S. There is nothing in the amendment but what is perfectly patent on the face of it. Here is a company who are willing to try the experiment; ey are wealthy men, the are excel lent business men, men of the big est character, that have been led to believe that they can do business there for their own benefit and greatly to the benefit of the people of the territory if they can be permitted to go there and set up a furnace and make a large quantity of iron. But the difficulty under which they labor, as everybody can see, is in regard to securing title to woodland, for it will take a good deal of woodland to run a furnace that is worth anything. They have got to lay out, they say, nearly 200,000 ollars in their apparatus and in commencin their business, setting up a large furnace. Temoment they begin to do it anywhere, everybody will see that they will.want a great deal of wood and at once other men, taking advan tage of what they are about, seeing what they want, will squat on all the woodland in the vicinity, and then the company will be entirely at the control of those who have got the wood around them. This is a wild country, heavrly wooded. There is no trouble about wood in Montana. If any gentleman has read the surveys of that country he will find that they all represent it as an exceedingly heavy wooded country; but then no prudent man would go there and lay out a large sum of money for a furnace unless he could assure himself that he would have wood enough to make coal to run it, and it will take ii. good deal. Now, I ask, is there any possible objection to their having that? It was objected that the other bill gave them the right to take certain lands that had coal if they could find it. This is an entirely different thing. There is not a mineral land grant in this amendment; they are not even permitted to cut wood except from one section until the thingis entirely complied with. Is there any objection to that? We have given away and granted, since I introduced that other bill, I do not know but 100million acres of land for railroads and other purposes; and if you look at your Northern Paci c railroad bill that passed here last, I think you willfind it is subject to every objection that was made by the President to the ittle bill that I introduced. There the company take all the land; they are not restricted to coa land or anything else; and you are granting awa millions upon millions of land by bills to which all the o jections made to the little bill to enable these people to go in there and try the experiment of setting up a furnace apply. It is the smallest thin that I ever knew so strongly objected to, for ask every candid man in this Senate, is there a sane man that can fail to see that in that remote country, where every pound of iron has got to be dragged1,000 miles at a cost of some 30 cents a pound before you can get it there, nothing would develop it more than to have a furnace on the spot that could make iron, and thereby e enable t people to set up their mining establilshments, their crushing works, and everything else 7 It seems to me that, so far from being any favoritism to a company, it would tend more to develop the country than anything else. It is a small affair, to be sure; butit is not indifferent to the people that are there and are going there. hey all want it to be done as a matter of prime necessity in that remote country. I be e, sir, there will be no objection to it. The 0 jections the President made to the other bill are entirely avoided by this. It seeks no advantage, and the other bill did not seek any advantage. It had things in it that might be objected to, but they were not sought, I am sure, to gain any advantage, for the features objected to were at on that bill by the ComPubLands in puttin it into such a shape that it ought to pass. All I ask is for such a measure as will accomplish the purpose of encouraging the production, of iron in this remote Territory.