Mr. HENDRICKS. I consider all that the Senfrom Ohio has said about the benefit. of the mechanics and of the grinding of them down as humbug, with great respect to the senator. There never was a corporation yet created for the benefit of the mechanics, nor for the benefit of the laboring classes. That is not the thing that is done. He says we allow individuals of wealth to buy lands and build houses. We cannot help that a man accumulates property; and does the Senator consider it an evil that the land of the country shall fall into the hands of the few? Does the Senator consider it an evil thatn few should become the owners of real estate because they are wealthy? Then, shall we increase that evil by increasing corporations with a capital of half a million dollars, that they, too, may become the owners of real estate, that it may fall into the hands of a corporation for the profit of the stockholders? The Senator talks about these mechanics that are in this bill, these corporators. Does the Senator know these corporators? Is not the Senator acquainted with John M. Brod hend? Is he a mechanic, the 2nd Comp troller of the Treasury? Is Moses Kelly a.me chanic a man that used to be in the Interior dept, I believe the Asst Secretary 0ft e Interior, now cashier of one of the banks of this city, the National Metropolitan bankis he the mechanic that the gentleman speaks about? Is Mr. Joseph F. Brown, the richest man in this city, perhaps, the owner of nearly all the gas company stock, or very much ofit, a man of very large wealth is he the mechanic that the Senator talks about? Is Mr. by B French, the ComrPubBldg and Public Grounds, the mechanic that the Senator is talking about? I will ask him now, who is the practical mechanic in this list of corporators that he talks about anybody wanting to grind down? I do not want these men of wealth to become a corporation for the purpose of buying up on ipeculation the lands of the country anywhere. y judgment is that land ought to be free to any man that can buy it and wants to go on it. It is an unheard of proposition in this country. It took the legislation of 100 years in England to relieve the real estate of that country to a little extent from being held in dead hands, in mortmain. Now, we are going to commence it here by incorporating a company to own and speculate in, lease and sell real estate; and these are the mechanics that the Senator talks about. If it is the pleasure of Congress to start out on this course, I have no special objection, but I felt it to be my duty to call the attention of Senators to the character of the bill. If this was an incorporated company for the purpose of building a large manufacturing establish l ment, we would in express terms say that that l corporation should not become the owner of any more real estate than was necessary for the purpose of the incorporation; that is, for the purpose of putting up and carrying on their manufacturing business, because we are not content that the lands shall fall into the hands of the speculators of incorporated companies. It is against the whole polic of the country. I believe it is against the policy of every State, and therefore I object to it in this District.