Mr. JOHNSON. That is not the difficulty that Ihave. I agree that a corporation hero chartered by Congress would have no power of doing business at all outside of the district. That is my opiuionotthe authority of Cong ress; but if the law gives them the power expressly to sell outside the District, then the question will arise in the States whether they have not the right to be there independent of State legislation; and that isa question of great moment. If it is not the purpose of the committee to give them the authority to act in the States or any where except in teDistrict by virtue of their chartered powers, it ought to be made Flam If it is doubtful, I should hope it might be restricted as to compel them to locate here in the District, giving them of course the power which they would have of going elsewhere, provided the States permit them to go elsewhere, by having an agency elsewhere, and not to give them the right to go as against the will of the States to carry on their business in the States without the assent of the States. The case of McCulloch vs. The State of Maryland settled as far as it could be settled by judicial determination the constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S. There are, perhaps, portions of the Opinion from which it might be inferred that Congress would have the authority to establish a corporation for a different purpose than that for which the Bank of the U.S. was established. But I think in the case of Cohen against somebody indicted for selling lottery tic ets in Virginia in a lottery authorized by Congress the court decided, or at least intimated very strongly the opinion, that there was no authority on the part oliCongress, in its legislation in the District, to do more than a State would be competent to do ifthe District, instead of being exclusively under the jurisdiction of Congress, was of itself aState. Jfso, of course all its legislation would be legislation aplying exclusively to the territory composing the State; but I ask for the reading of the amendment in order to see whether we are about to give to this corporation the authority to go out of the District without the consent of the States. The SECRETARY. The amendment is in section one, line 18, after the word “places, ” to insert “ within the District, ” so that that portion of the clause will read: I Ppr the construction ofice houses and cutting, securing and selling icein the said District or in such other placeor placeswithin the District as the direct ors of the companymay determine.