Mr. CONNESS. I desire to say in connection with the amendment of the honorable senator to refer this communication to the comPubLands in preference to the ComMining, that,personally, I have no feeling in regard to it. It is wcl known to the Senate that at the head of the committee to which I proposed to refer it the Senate has seen fit to place myself. It is true, as the Senator states, that the bill complained of in this preamble and these resolutions is now in possession of the ComPubLands. I thought when the honorable Senator moved to refer it there, that it was not the committee most fit and proper to consider it. While it involved a question of the disposition of the public domain, it at the same time peculiarly involved the question of the tenure and present possession, and all the value that citizens of the U.S. engaged in mining pursuits had given to a very large district of country, and it ver materially diflcred from a simple question of the disposition of the public land in the ordinary acceptation of that term and therefore I thought at the time that the disposition made of the bill was not the most fit and properbut it was not for me to so anything upon the occasion, and I did not. ow, I have no objection that the disosition proposed by the Senator shall bemudo, ccnuse I have no question, so far as the ComPubLands of this body is concerned, that they will conclude that the bill introduced by the honorable Senator is not the best calculate to dispose properly of the question which it comprehends. Of course I exonerate the Senfrom Ohio from all the blame that maybe directly or indircctly imputed to him in connection with the introduction of the measure, asto any intent to do anything but the very best for the country and for even the population of the mining regions; but I humb y submit to the Senator now that gentlemen residing out of the mining regions cannot be acquainted with 1,000conditions that exist, and that are important to be considered, within those regions an precincts. I undertake to say now that what is stated in regard to this bill in these resolutions is strictly true; that if the provisions of it were enacted into a law it would lead not simply to in extricnble confusion, but it would lthlt even to revolution in that country, or in any mining country. The Senator hims:If, I am well satisfied, is not aware of the injurious tendency, the destructive tendency, of many of the provisions of the bill, which proposes to put u at public auction and sell to the highest bidder the possessions of citizens of the U.S. in which their all is now invested. But it is not proper to discuss the merits of the question of the disposition of the public lands upon this motion to refer. In justice to the petitioners and in justice to myself and my relation to the subject, and to the bills that are now before this body and in committee, or that may be presented hereafter, I felt it due to say something on the subject. If the honorable Senator will withdraw his amendment, I shall withdraw in motion and let this papergo at present to the ComPubLands. ct I submit to him and to the Senate now that the ComPubLands is scarcely the committee to consider the question of the disposition of the mines of the U.S. .