Mr. KASSON. I will answer that as I go on, ifthe gentleman will allow me, and I Will not omit a point. This simply provides, as I stated before, that the lands are to be reserved from sale. There is not one word of grant from beginning to end of the bill. I have taken the pains to compare the printed copy which I hold in my hand with the written copy on the Clerk’s desk, and it is word for word identical. Now, that being the fact, that it simply reserves the lands from sale alon this line when the map shall be filed takes no right from the U.S. reserved under the original grant. West of the pomt of divergence, from the route up the Republican, I am sorry to say there are mighty few lands that will be occu ied for years to come by tillers of the soil. T at, to my mind, is certain, from personal knowledge of the ground. The demand for land entries west of that point 9 will be very limited. Then comes the proviso to the 1st section, as follows: Pros 1'11"T], hat said companyshall be entitled to only the same amount of the bonds of the U.S. to aid in the construction of the ir line of railroadahd telegraphas the 'would have beenentitled to it" they had connecte their said line with the Union Pacific railroad on the 100thdegree of longitude, as now required by law. Not one dollar of U.S. bonds additional is granted to them. And providedfurther. That said company shall connecttheir line of railroad and telegraphwith the Ufifntiyon Pacific railroad, but not at a point more.than mileswestwardlyfrom the meridian of Denver, in Colorado., I have now read the entire 1st section. The [ bill also has reference to the fact, as now required by law, of a connection with the Union Pacific railroad, but. it may be at a point west of Denver city not exceeding 50 miles, if they can find a route that will enable them to do it. Now, sir, as to the proriety of giving them this right. I traveled from the top of the snowy range of the Rocky mountains by Den ver city, up Cherry creek, down the Big Sandy, and across by the “Cheyenne wells to the head of the valley of the Smoky Hill river, thence down the Smok Hill by Forts Ells worth and Riley; and l iave only to say that if for this same grant, without one additional dollar of U.S. bonds, and with nothing additional but the grant of land, there is any man or set of men who are willing to take in the 0 cc of the SecyInterior, it'i that land and build that road in preference to going up the Republican and crossing over the divide between the Republican and Platte to the Omaha route, near the 100th par allel, I say it is a duty we owe to the people of this country to allow it to be done. It is not a question of cost to the U.S. Everybody who has studied the topog raphy of that country knows that you cannot make farms except along the infrequent mar gins of the rivers for the whole distance between the eastern border of the lains and the foot of the Rocky mountains. lVhy, sir, even between Denver and the base of the Rocky mountains, some 15 miles, you have no farms except by the aid of irrigation, where the water flows through the ditches of the engineer. It is only thus that they are enabled to supply the requisite moisture for their wheat and corn. Now, sir, I will in few words finish what I have to say, and leave the bill to the care of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr.S'rs vans]