Mr. PRICE. I will saytoniy amiable friend that I have not looked at the list of corporutors recently so as to be able to tell whether he is so or not. If he is, I have only to say that it is rather late in the day to call in question the integrity, honesty, or ability of that distin uished general, and I presume no gentleman here will undertake to insinuate that he wrote that letter because he was a corporator. such an insinuation would be unworthy of any member of the House, as it would be unjust to that distinguished man. I know that my friend does not mean to insinuate it, but puts in the remark very much in the same way as he has done a cat many other things for Buncombe; as, tor instance, his frequent remarks about soldiers with one leg and one arm. Now, in addition to this testimony, Iivish to say that in the QuarterMGen’s report made to the House in 1865, there will be onnd on page 34 this statement: “Cost of transporting military stores westward across the lains, by contract for year endinl June, 1365.to tah, endpoints on that route, $1,524, 119. st oftransportution of grain to Utah and posts on thatroutc, whero the grain wasdelivered bycontract ors and the trunspprtution entered intnilienrico pa game year. 825, 737{58;maki cost lor transportaion in oneyear in this region 300.84608.” The QuarterMGen goes on to say what is unnecessary to say, because every body knows it, that the railroad would reduce the cost of transportation at least 75%. There are 12 military posts now, some of them gurrisoned by 100 and some by 200 men, along that very route, and there will be a very great sawing in the transportation of supplies to these posts if this road is constructed. From whatever stand point you view it, either in a military, financial, or civil point of view, it becomes an inevitable conclusion that this road will be of immense advantage in developingh the agricultural and mineral resources of the country. These are some of the reasons that induced the committee to report this bill. I repeat that if my calculations are correct it will not take a dollar from the Treasury, and until gentlemen can show that the estimates upon which these calculations are made are erro neous they should not undertake to deny the fact and that fact once established, every other objection to the bill must necessarily fall. If the road can be constructed with the simple guarantees of the Government affording the means to pay the expenses of construction, it will enable the compo to refund every dollar that is paid to them as rapidly as the road progresses, and it will at the same time deve op the resources of the country, and aid the civil and military operations of the Government. These facts bein established, no gentleman can find any oun ofo position to the bill now before the House. hff. SHELLABARGER. I would ask the gentleman whether there is any revision in this bill for the repayment to the U.S. in any event of anything more than the actual amount they have received. In other words, whether the Government is to have any interest on the mono it ays to aid in the construction of this road. Fcall his attention to the provision in the 2nd section, that “the amount so paid shall equal the amount paid by the U.S., as provided in section one, after which all further payments to the U.S shall cease." grid the other provision, so far as I understand it, contempiJates only the payment of the actual amount which the Government has furnished nothing for interest on the money that has been paid by the Government.