Mr. POMEROY. Ipshall occupy the time of the Senate but a moment. I desire to reply to what the Senfrom Indiana has said, as briefly as possible. I will commence by saying that, so far as I am concerned, I have not the slightest interest in any of these 3 roads. There are 3 of them in my State pointing toward Galveston bay, and when they come together, and it is so in every State of the Union where roads come together, if there are any grants at all they do confiict with each other where they come together; but the company that gets the 1st grantgets the land, and then if the other companies can build their roads without lands, they are not prohibited from doing so. That is all there is in that. This bill takes away no grant from a previous company. It cannot, and does not propose to do it. In the next place, I desire to say that the Senfrom Indiana is entirely in error in his statement today that the State of Kansas has had such a large amount of the public lands. The read he speaks of as havmg so many million acres commences at Omaha, in Nebraska, and cos up the Platte river to the Pacific road, angnot a foot of it is in the State of Kansas. There are 2 branches of that road in the State of Kansas. Those 2 branches together may be 250 or 300 miles long. Those 2 branches do get the land that the Senfrom Indiana referred to; but not an acre of the grant to the Pacific road proper comes to the State of Kansas at all. Will read, for the benefit of the Senfrom Indiana, and for the sake of correcting him, precisely how the State of Kansas does stand as compared with other States in regard to land grants. The ComrGLO, in his last Annual Report, on page 168, says that he has estimated that “there will be given to the State of Kansas 2,000,000 acres; to the State of Minnesota 6, 490,000 acres; to the State of Wisconsin 4,130,000 acres” twice as much as we have; “to the State of Oregon 4, 706,000 acres " twice what we have got; “ and to the State of Iowa 6, 761,000acres. ” The State ofKansas has ot 2,600,000 acres less than any other State that has got any at all in the western country. None are put down to the old States, because they do not get any. I think that is a sufficient answer to the long argument which the Senator has made twice over in the Senate on 2 succes sive days, that the State of Kansas has got a large amount of public lands, when", in truth, it has got about half what other western States have got that have got any. The next argument of the Senator is confined entirely to the Indians. This bill does not proposeto give any Indian land to the road. t only'proposes to give the right of way through the Indian country; and the Senfrom Indiana says that is against treaty stipulations. Now, I Wish to read a few words from the treaty with the Semine les.] ho 20th article of that treaty provides: " The U.S or an incorporated cornpnny shall have the right o way or railroad purposes and for telegraph lines throng the said Creek and Seminole country." That is already provided for by the treaty made on the 7th of August, 1856.