Mr. hairman, the policy in regard to the public lands on the western coast will have to be changed. I am under the impression that we are very much in the dark in regard to the necessities of the Territories on the Pacific side of the Rocky mount ains, and we shall be comelled to change our policy. That country is filling up very rapidly and unless the public lands are surveyed and titles given there will be very great inconven ience and snffering. I have no doubt there should be a surveyor generals office established there, and that the Government, instead of losing by an appropriation to sustain such an office, would make money by it. For the titles of land would be the more readily determined, and settlers would begin to pay taxes on the land, while those locating on uncertain land, the titre not being conveyed to them, cannot pay taxes, and a great deal of contention will arise, which will lead to extreme perplexity and great loss to the General Government. I have no doubt that the ComrGLO thinks that he is acting liberally in this matter; but if he had the acquaintance with that section of country which some of us have, he would at once see the pro priety of being more liberal in regard to surveys. A few days ago I introduced a bill here for the purpose of authorizing the surveyorgeneral to change the mode of surveying so that the small valleys and other sections of the count may be surveyed separately and apart from tcgeneral surveys. That bill will come up, and let me say here thatI hope it will pass. The necessities of that country and the interests of the General Government require that that shall be done in order that the lands may be surveyed at as early a period as possible, and settlers may get their right to their lands and begin to pay something into the Treasury as tax payers. Hence I sustain the amendment of the gentleman asking a larger appropriation, on the ground that the necessities of that country are rapidly undergoing a change. If we pursue the same policy that has been pursued heretofore, when there was little or no emigration to that country. it is a policy that cannotsubserve the public interests nor the welfare of the inhabitants. There is one point which I would wish to impress upon the minds of the committee, and that is, that the policy in regard to these lands will have to be changed soon, or there will be a loss to the Government.