Mr. STEWART. Allow me to explain. They never run along the vein longitudinally with a tunnel. They run into the hill and cut the vein at angles. That provision in the bill which declares that a Iocator shall have 300 feet in length has nothing to do with that. That is the mining rule now. As to tun neling. we provide that if there shall be any difficulty about the right of way or draining, the local Legislature shr‘I be empowered to grant the right of way if it is ever interfered with. The miners' rules always concede the right of way to run into a barren mountain. There will be no difficulty on that point; but to guard it and make it secure. we provide that the Legislature may make regulations for grant in the right of way and in regard to drainage. while now on the floor, as authority is being produced here from the mining regions, I beg eave to read an extract from one of the leading and best journals in the mining regions, edited by one of the most intelligentmentherc. I read from the Daily Mining Journal, published at.Black Hawk, Colorado 'I erritory, the answer given by the editor to a correspondent calling himself "One of’em:” “ 'Ono of ’em' asks as day before yesterday what we are to do under the proposedmining law. whci o lodrs crosseachother and run out and in and within ten feetof eachother. We answer dojust as we do now. We seem to get along with it somehow or other and the law proposesto make plats of lodo property in accordance with local customsand rules. I' we are to be harassed until we have perfectedn. plan that shall be theoretically perfect and correct in every particular. wc shall always be harassed. It is well enough to insist. too. that Congress shall let the past alone; but Congress won‘t do it. ehave protested and suggested until Congresshas at last nllon upon aschcme at least the committee has which recognises acquired rights precisely as our own laws recognize them. In the name of sense. what morecould we ask? It is nothing to us the) it. will costmore than it will cometo; that's what we huve alwaystold them; that's the experience of the past: but they don t believeit. It is somethingto us. however. to have the critical question settled. even if not so as to work out perfectlysmooth and harmless to all parties concerned." And that will be the language of every mining district: “ What more can we ask than this bill?” It settles everything.