Mr. HENDRICKS. I could not concur with the majority of the committee in reporting in favor of this bill. I think the work is entirely a local one, a neigpborhood work, not general in its character. his is a proposition to take the public lands and use them or the purpose of making a harbor where God has made none. There is a little lake inside from the coast about a mile and a half; and the proposition is to make a canal from Lake Superior across to that little lake, and that lake is to form a har bor for the accommodation of some miners in that neighborhood. It is purely a local interest. I think we might justas well undertake to make a road across to a mans farm in some obse ure neighborhood. The probability is that copper mines will eventuall be developed in that region so as to be of value and importance; bnt at this time the evidence before the committee does not establish that this is a work of general national importance. If, however, it is the pleasure of the Senate to pass the bill at all, I should doubt whether less than 100,000 acres would do much good. If we agree that this is a work of sufficient importance to appropriate public lands to it, I think we might yust as well appropriate enough to make the work and to o it in good sty e. If it is to be constructed, it ought to be well constructed, and not O along with a deficieut fund all the while. the committee had no very reliable information as to the cest of the work. We were substantially without information on that subject. Nor had we much information about the value of the land in that neighborhood; but my opinion is that the land is not very valuable, rat or a pine barren, sandy soil, and will not probably realize much to the company when they come to sell. M judgment is that if we appropriate any lands we might as well appropriate 100,000 acres; but with my view of this work I cannot vote for the bill. I do not think it is right for the General Government to make harbors for purely local interests.