We have been assured. and that justly. Mr. Chairman. within the past few weeks that a large immigration is pouring into this country. a wonderful tide of immigration as the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox] has well told us. Whither shall this tide wend its way ? Shall it be compelled to go out on the unsurveyed lands and be troubled with all the annoyances growing out of that condition of things 9 These public lands are part and parcel of our great domain. Why may they not be surveyed. platted. and duly recorded. and information given to these immigrants and the people of this country who desire to settle upon them just where the surveyed public lands are that they may be entered for the settlers? There is no economy at all inwhat is here proposed because--and I ask the attention of the gentleman from Georgia for a momentthe sooner these lands are surveyed and the records made in the General Land Office here the sooner will very many of these local land officers be dispensed with and the settlements will be completed in many localities. The gentleman from Washington has stated that as an argument in favor of my amendment.
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