Mr. STEWART. Just the same. While I am on in feet, I must say that I am really astonishe that any man from the Pacific coast. should object to a confirmation of our minin titles when the bills that are daily introduced into these Halls are destroying the people of that country. Day after day I receive tele rapliic dispatches announcing that this man has broken and that man has broken; “the introduction of JULIAN’S bill has knocked stocks, and your friend A B is broken; he is destroyed.” I want to get a permanent peace, so that our people shall he let alone; and ifwe can reach that consummation. I shall never disturb it. The utter impossibility of having any stability to our titles while this agitation lasts, and the ruin that it is bringing on my State, make it necessary that the agitation should be stopped. I am astonished at op position to this measure by a man from the acific coast who ought to have some knowledge of the ruin that is being wrought by the bil s which are being introduced into congress, which in their practical operation would amount to a genera system of confiscation. vThey are not so designed, I know, but they are so understood there. During the last year there have been more failures in mining enterprises, in consequence of the fluctuations caused by agitation here, than during the whole period since the 1st discovery of the precious metals in that country. We must sto the agitation of this question, if it be possib e; but neither the gentleman nor myself have the power to do it; we cannot stop 30 million people from agitating the question. That being the case, let us have fixe rights, so that A, B, and C cannot come into on gross, and for the mere purpose of getting a little tern orary popularity, propose to pay the national debt out of our mines, and have that fact telegraphed mm the continent, causing fluctuations which involve the ruin of 40 or 50 companies of enter rising men. We cannot and must not.hol our titles upon such uncertainty. If this can be stopped, let it be stopped; but the gentleman has no power to stop it. All there is in this bill is a simple confirmation of the existing condition of things in the mining regions, leaving everything where it. was, indorsing the mining rules. It simply adopts and perfects the existing system, allowing these people to enjoy their property Without bein subject to the fluctuations created now by tic agitations in Congress. It has been a matter of serious consideration for years before I brought myself to believe that there was an absolute necessity for action by Congress. Since this agitation has come up it is now a necessity. W hile it lasts th'cre is no title, no security, no prosperity in your mines. The gentleman would do well to in vestigate this bill carefully. The objections to the bill, it seems to me, are as frivolous as could possibly be made. The objections that have been urged to the bill, one after another, would be answered by reading the bill through. I do hope that this question may be put at rest that our miners may‘have their titles confirmed and that is alfthere is in the bill.