Mr. WADE. the ComDistCol, to whom was referred a bill (S.No.190) to incorporate the DistCol Canal and Sewerage company, have directed me to report it back with amendments, and recommend its passage, and I ask the Senate to a ree to take it up at this time. M reason for doing so is that it is in a great cegree a sanitary measure touching the canal here, which is a perfect nuisance, and, it is aprehended, wil? be the cause of a great den of sickness if it is left in the condition it is until the warm weather comes on; and if the bill is to be passed at all it ought to be passed imme diately in order that the company may go to work at once and put. the canal in a better condition than it now is. By unanimous consent, the bill was considered as in ComWhole. It proposes to incorporate John Van Reswiek, Sam uel S. Smoot, J. B. Hutchinson, Whitman Bestor, William E. S aiding, W. D. Wise of Washington, Joseph. Parish of newOrleans, Charles L. Frost, Charles A. Secor, Gideon L. walker of the city of NewYork, Martin H. Cossell of Illinois and their successors and assigns. as abody politic, by the name and style of the DistCol Canal and Sewer age Company, with power to survey, locate, lIay out, construct, operate, and use and enjoy continuous line of canal and sewer, with all the privileges and a purtenances thereof, between the waters of the Anacostia river, commonly known as the Eastern branch, where it enters the DistCol, running along that river to its junction with the Potomac river, and the Potomac river and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, at or near the city of Georgetown, all in the DistCol, upon a route to be surveyed and designated by a competent engineer appointed by the company for that purpose. l he canal or seweris to form a duct or epository for the sewers of the city of Washington. fhe companyis to have the exclusive right to use the canal for the purpose of conveying freights and revulating the passage through the same, of all vessels, boats, re. s of lumber, and crafts of all kinds, capable of navigatin the canalandsewer. The canal and sewer sha lbe cut to the depth often feet below high tide as it usually rises, and shall be 70 feet wide at the water line, with the usual slope to the banks; and shall at all times be kept in good and navi able repair, and all sediment or deposits colecting in the same from the sewers or otherwise shall be kept cleaned out so that the tide may constantly flow through the same. The company shall have the exclusive right to assess and collect tolls upon the canal, and also upon its wharves and docks. The capital stock is to be $1,000,000, and consist of 10,000 shares of $100 each, and may be increased whenever, in the opinion of a majority of the directors of the company, its interests require such increase. The ComDistCol reported the bill with several amendments. The 1st amendment of the committee was in s I i sectionoue, line 4, after the name “J. B. Hutchinson” to insert “ Samuel F. Dickerson.” The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was in section one, line 6, to strike out the letter “A” and insert “F;” so as to read “Charles F. Secor.” The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was to insert after section 11 the following as an additional section: SEC.12 and be “ Abife: That in order to aid thesaid DistCol Canal and Sewerage Company in fnltilling the obJectsand requirements of this set. all the right, title property. interest and estate, in law or equity. of the U.S. of and to the Washin ton canal and the bridgese rossin the same and the lands upon which said canal, briges, basins.locks. reservoirs.docks, and wharves are now located, occupied. used, and constructed.be and the someare hereby, vestedin thesaid DistCol Canal and Sewerage Company, to have and to hold the same for the use and benefit of the said company.