Mr. CONNESS. Permit me in part, at least, to relieve the Senfrom Wisconsin from the impression that the object of taking this small appropriation of $5,000 out this bill has any connection it has none in my mind at least with the proected establishment of the Bureau on Mines. n the 1st place, that is not the way that I operate; and in the next place, I have never yet been fully convinced that the establishment of aBureau on Mines, conducted as our Bureau on Agriculture is conducted, would be of any advantage to the mining communities or to the Government. In saying this I mean no reflection on the present head of the Agricultural Bureau; I speak simply of its workings and the benefit the country derives from the amount of its public expenditure. But as to this small appropriation being intended in any respect whatever for the purposes of segregation, that is out of the question. It is not intended to be a lied in that way. Again, if it were, it won be utterly futile to talk of a segregation of the mineral from the agricultural lands of the country to any extent whatever by such an appropriation, or by such an examination as a single individual could make. It has been stated, and stated correctly, that heretofore considerable expenditures have grown up in the Land Office incidentally without the authority of law, except as it was found in connection with the mineral lands annually. 15,000 dollars was the usual annual appropriation; as the honorable Senfrom Levada has said, the appropriation failed a year ago, and I take his statement to be correct, for I suppose he is a judge on that point, that the failure has resulted in the pronotion of the best report ever made from the GLO in connection with mining. I have examined that portion of that report which relates to miners; it is very limitet, indeed; and I have no such eneomium to bestow upon it. It contains some more healthful suggestions than have been made heretofore from that Dept; but they are exceedingly limited, such as they are; and if it be true that good goods come in small parcels, this is certainly a complete exemplification of it, for there is very little of it. Mr. President. I have as much confidence in the present head of the GLO as any Senator in this body has; but I think this amount of money mayjnst aswell be saved l as not. If the ComrGLO will point out to the Senate or to me individually what useful purpose he wants to serve by spending this money, I will vote him $5,000 or $10,000; but that has not been stated.