Mr. WENTWORTH. I will have to object to that until I know how many of these men who have put down their names for speeches want to take an hour each. We want to talk on this bill after awhile. The question was then taken on the motion that the committee rise to close debate, and it wa not agreed to. (in. KELLEY. If I had made my remarks yesterday afternoon, I should have added another to the many illustrations I have given this session of the mistake made by the Gentfrom Illinois [Mr. Wsxrwonrn] when he said I never took less than an hour when I got the floor, for I am quite sure that 20 minutes would then have sufliced me. But have had a night in which to examine the provisions of this bill and to reflect upon them, and I shall probably ask the attention of the House for a onger period this morning. I would have been satisfied yesterday with the amendment proposed by the distinguished Gentfrom Maryland [Mr. FTHOMAS] coupled with one or 2 others. Today, however, this will not satisfy me. Sir, the bill should be rejected. It is false in principlo and in detail, and will materially diminish the revenues of the Country by suspending several important branches of ourindustry. As I conned its sections I became doubtful of its origin.; whether it was of British or American conception. There are many of its features which constrain me to think that it is of foreign and not of American origin. I point gentlemen to the 9th section. Its authors seem to have been oblivious to the fact that we are still living under democratic republican institutions, and have not yet fallen under adictatorship. The 9th section confides the regulation of hll the commerce that may grow up between the U.S and the ritish Provinces to the absolute and unrestricted control of the President. Let me astound gentlemen who have not examined the bill by reading that portion of the section to which I refer: SEC.9 and beilfnrtherenrlclczf, That the president is herebyauthorizedto terminateor suspend the provisions of this act, or any sectionor sections thereof, and asto the wholeor part of the British North Americancolonies, by giving public notice of such termination or suspension, whenever in his opinion it may appear just and proper, kc. Sir, such power may be exercised by the Emperor of Russia in regard to the commerce of his empire; but such power, regulating the trade of this country accordin to his caprice, has never been confided to the POTUS, or will be confided to one while the American people remain free.