Mr. JULIAN. I understand the point of Order perfectly. I have not mentioned any Senfrom any portion of the country, and I shall not do so. I commented upon the conduct of distinguished gentlemen, not members of this House, who have undertaken to dragoou members on this floor into the support of a measure in which they are interested). But I have alluded to no Senators, for the simple season that it would be unparliamentary to 0 so. Now, Mr. Speaker, the basis of this policy, thus revolutionary of all the ast action of the Government, the basis of this extraordinary movement here is the local custom or rules of ] the districts containing this mineral; the crudely exteiuporized usages of the miners; and I deire to show what a sandy foundation it is upon which thesegentlemen propose to build up their glnind superstructure of a land policy for the U.S. I re one to read some passages and I ask or them the attention of the House from a Senate report of the Legislature of Nevada, the home of the mining gentlemen so deeplyinterested in this bill, and the locality, probably, of the richest mineral in America. It is an official legislative document, which one of the Senators from Nevada has told me is authentic, and its statements to be accepted. I want the House to see upon what a sorry foundation this new edifice is to be built: "1. As to uniformity, there ising now nothing approach it. There never was confusion worse contonnded. More than 200 petty districts Within the limits of a single State. each one with its self approved code; these codes differing not alone ouch remtheother, but presenting nnmberlese instances of contradictionint emselves. the lawofone point is not the law of another 5 miles distant and a little further on will be a codewhich is the law'of neither of the former, and so on, oil mfimlum, with the further disturbingfactsupnradded, that tho written laws theniselves inay hoovcrrun by some eeuliar ‘custom which can be found nowhere rccor ed and the proof of which w1 llvary with the volume of interested affidavitswhich may be brought on either sid“eAgtoaiens.tablishit. in one district the work required to be done t o hold a claimis nominal, in another oxorbi tent, in another abolished. in another adiourned from year to year. A stranger seekingto ascertain the law is surprisedto learn that the feis no satisfactory public record to which he can refer; no public officer to whom he mliiy‘anply, whois under any bond otyr obligation tofnrnis him information, o rguaran its authenticity. Often in the newer districtshe finds there is not even the lemblnnceof needs. but a simplo resolution ado tin the codeof somoother dgiusatrriaenttweheichmaybe a 100 miles distant. What hasbe for investmentof either capital or labor under such a system?" That, Mr. Speaker, is the foundation upon which the fabric of this new policy is to be built. Why, sir, the man who builds his hou upon the sand is aphilosopher in comparis With the men who would erect an enduring land policy for this nation on the basis ot such confusion and bewdderment and Jar on under which the people of Nevada are to pay groan in.