Mr. COXNESS. Mr. President, I said when I was up before that I did not think the company had mortgaged their whole line. The statement that the company had mortgaged their whole line came from only 2 sources. It is not contained in General Dix's letter. He is more careful of what he writes. It was contained in a letter received from agentleman known as Clark Bell, who is some kind of an attorney for the company, which letter was received by some member of the ComPacificRR. He told it, and then the Senfrom Massachusetts when he rose 1st today on the subject restated it. I do not think, and so said, that it was a correct statement. I wish to say, now, and call attention to the fact, though I do not give particular weight to what General Dix sa s, that his objections to the 2nd section which he discusses dq not apply to the 2nd section as now before the Senate. The Union Pacific Railroad Company have representatives here. There are many gentlemen here who have greater investments in the Union Pacific Railroad Company than General Dix has or than Mr. Durant has, and they have been consulted with, and the 1st draft of the 2nd section that we preared has been set aside at their instance. We have prepared a section acceptable to them, which they stated that they accepted. It is very different from the section as proposed ori ginally. It contains this proviso : they claimed that they wanted the privilege of working ahead of a continuous complete line; they inight want to do that; on so we have made is provision: Provided, That eachof the above named compa nics shall havethe right when thonature of the work to bedone by reason of deop cuts and tunnelsAnd there is a trifling verbal amendment there adopted to work for an extent of not to exceed 3 100 milesin advanceof their continuouscompletedlines. Under this section as it now stands they may engage in COin dilficult work for a distance of 300 miles in advance of a contin uous completed line. There can be no reason able ohjection to the section at all. I hope we shall come to a vote.