I suppose that was the reason. ButV Mr. President. while we are willing to force the money out of those people who have taken homesteads upon the public domain. and have thereby repealed the homestead law. we are remitting duties to Asiatic labor in the Hawaiian Islands to the extent of $10.000.000 a year. We have remitted $72.000.000 already. and we have collected that money out of the people of the United States in the way of taxes to support our Government while we have not collected duty upon Hawaiian sugar and Hawaiian productsnot in the interest of American citizens. but in the interest of Asiatic laborand yet we want to economize by compelling the homesteader upon the public domain to pay for his land. thereby repealing the homestead laws. and this in the interest of.economy! Senators want to do this. although the Republican party. as every other party in this country. has declared in its platform at the last convention that those homes should be free. and that makes another contest. it seems to me. on the conference report on the Indian bill.