Mr. WILSON. I move to take up Senate bill No.85. The motion was agreed to; and theyconsideration of the bill (S.No.85) granting to the State of Wisconsin a donation of public lands to aid in the construction of a breakwater and harbor and shipeanal at the head of Sturgeon bay, in the county of Door. in said State. to connect the waters of Green bay with Lake 1866. 831 Michigan, in said State, was resumed as in ComWhole. It provides for granting to the State of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding that State in constructing and completing a breakwater and harbor and shipeanal to connect the waters of Green ba with the waters of Lake Michigan, 200,000 acres of public lands, to be selected in subdivisions agreeably to the U.S. survey, by an agent or agents appointed by the Governor of the State, subject to the approval of the SecyIn terior, from and s subject to private entry. The selections are to be made from sections of land nearest the location of the harbor and canal not otherwise appropriated, and not from lands designated byt ie U.S. as “mineral” nor from lands to which the rights of pree mtion or homestead have attached. The lands granted are to be subject to the disposal of the cgislature of the State, or, if the Legislature shall not be in session, or shall adjourn within ten days after the passage and a proval of the act, they are to be subject to the disposal of the Governor and board of commissioners of school, university, and swam) lands of the State. The canal is to be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the U.S., free from toll or charge upon the vessels of the Government or upon vessels employed by it in the transportation of any property or troops of the U.S. Before it shall be competent for the State to dispose of any of the lands, the plan of the breakwater and harbor and the route of the canal shall be established, and a plat or plats thereof filed in the office of the War deart meut, and a duplicate filed in the office of the ComrGLO. If the breakwater, harbor, and canal, shall not be completed within 3 years from the passage of the act the lands granted and remaining unsold are to revert to the U.S. he Legislature of the State is to cause to be kept an accurate account of the sales and net proceeds of the lands granted, and of all expenditures in the construction, repairs, and operating of the canal, and of its earnings, and, to return a statement of the same annually to the SecyInterior. Whenever the State shall be fully reimbursed for all advances made for the construction, repairs, and operating of the canal, with legal interest on all advances until the reimbursement of the same, or upon payment by the U.S. of any balance of such a vances over such receipts from the lands and canal, with interest, the State is to be allowed to tax for the use of the canal only such tolls as shall be sufficient to pay all necessary expenses for the care, charge, and repair of the same. The 1st amendment of the ComPubLands was in section one, line 12, after the words “made from” to insert “alter ante and oddnumbered, ” so as to read, “that said selections shall be made from alternate and oddnumbered sections of land nearest the location of said harbor, ” the The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was to add at the end of the bill, as section 6, the following: SEC. 6. Abife: That saidshipeanal shall be at least 100 feet in width, with a depth ofwater not lessthan 13 feet. The amendment was agreed to.