Mr. POMEROY. Before proceeding with the pension bills, I desire to call up the amendments of the HoRep to a Senate bill which now lies on the desk, with a view of concurring in these amendments. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the amendments of the HoRep to the bill (S.No.223) to exten the provisions of an act granting the right of way, and making a grant of land to the States of Arkansas and Missouri to aid in the construction of a railroad from a pomt upon the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Ohio river, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary, near Fulton, Arkansas, with branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi river, approved February 9, 1853, and or other purposes. The Secrctary read the amendments, as follows: Add to sectionone:. Provided.That all mineral lands Within the limits of this grant and the grant madein sectiontwo of this act are herebyreservedto the U.S.: Andprooidedfurlher. That all property and troops of the U.S shall at all times be transported over said railroad and branchesat the cost,0 argc and expenseof the companyor corporation owning or operating snidroad and branches, fo$[0('il' 0l ':hen sorequired by the Governmentof the U.S. In section two. line 8, strike out the words "selected" and "t n" and insert in lieu there of the words"granted" a d In the same section."line.15, page 2. strike out all after the word "railroad" to the endof the section andinscrt the following: And provided further. That the lands embracedin the grant and theyrant round by section one of this act, shall be disposed of only asfollows: when everproofshull be furnished satisfactory to the SecyInterior that uni section of ten cousco ntive milesof saidlroad and ranches is completed in a good, substantial, and workmanlike manner as a 1st –class railroad, the said SecyInterior shall issuepatentstor all the lands grapted as aforesaid. not exceeding ten sectionsfpermile situate opposite to and within the limits 0 20 milesoft ic section of said read and branches thus completed: and when like proof shall be furnished that another section of ten miles of said read in said Statesor of the said branches. respectively, connectingwith the preceding section, is completed, as aforesaid, the SecyInterior shall issue patents in like manner as in caseof the 1st completedsections;and so on from timeto time until the whole is completed asherein provided.whenthe SecyInt rior shall issue patents for all the remaining lands hperorveiidned granted not exceedingthe aggregate anionnt for and located as required by sectionsone and 2 of this act: And providedfurther. That if one section oftwcuty miles of each of said railroads apnledte branches shall not be fully constructed and com as a 1st classrailroad within 3 yearsfrom the time this act becomes a law, and at leastonesection ot 20 miles on each of snid roads and branches in eachyear thereafter and the whole of said roads and branches Within ten years from the time this act shall take ctfect.then. in either ofsaid cases, all the lands granted or the grant of which is revived or extendedby this act and which at the time shall be unpatentedto or for the benefit of the road or compgll{ID1.flklllIor suiferingsuchfailure, shall revertto the U.S. Add at the end of section 3, the follownig: Provided further, That the provisionsof this act, sofar as the somerelateto the Mom his and Little Rock and the Little Rock and Fort mith branches of said road shall not take otfectuntil the SecyInteriorshall make andfile acortificatein his office and the office of those cretaryofstate of Arkansas, stating that the cpmpanicsorcorporntionsclaim the benefit of this act in behalf ofsaid branches have reorganized their boards ot‘ directorsin alawful manner and after such reer anization that they have respectively rescinded al acts.resolutions or other proceeding transferring the lands. rights, or privileges of, sue corporations or companiesto any State, or nuthorityrecognjzing oracting in concert With or under the authority of the late socalled confederate States of America. The amendments were concurred in. BUSINESS or THE JUDIEXARY coum'rraa.