Mr. HENDERSON. I must confess the greatest astonishment I have ever felt in my life at the remarks of the Senfrom Nevada. I am profoundly astonished. I feel anxious to have this connection between the Baltimore and Ohio road and some road leading to the South. The whole committee have felt the greatest anxiety upon that subject during the winter, and we have put our heads together to devise some plan by which it can be one. The Senfrom Illinois [Mr. TRUM HULL] a short time ago introduced a bill for the purpose of extending the public grounds; and it is pefectly apparent, if the capital is to remain here, and the legislation of this session shows it, that in the course of a few years all these public grounds will be improved, and then the idea of the Senator that railroad trains can be run across the public grounds is perfectly monstrous. He must know that the Senate will not permit it; that the HoRep will not permit it; and if we are to have any connection at all between the Washin ton branch of the Baltimore and Ohio road an the roads south of the Potomac river we must make it by a tunnel or permit them to run through the city. The Senator knows, just as well as he knows anything, that the city of Baltimore will not permit cars drawn by steam to pass through the city. No other city permits it. He knows that the city of Philadel phiadoes notpermitit. Heknowsperfectlywell that the trains have to be backed around the city of Philadelphia and across a bridge in order to get from here to NewYork. The city of Balti more compels the Baltimore and Ohio and the Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad Compa nies to run their cars by horse power through the streets of Baltimore. The city of Washington for the last 2 years has granted permission to this company to run through the city. We passed an act, saying that if t8city of Washington granted them the privilege we would do so, and by)ermission of Congress and the city of Wasington they have been allowed to run their cars by steam in front of the Capitol, but it has iven rise to a good deal of complaint, and will not be pernntted ‘long. especially after the improvement of the Capitol grounds, and the Senator ought to know it. Now, Mr. President, I never had any idea of permitting or asking the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to do this work; but Mr. Garrett came own here a few days ago and I saw him, and I begged of him if he would undertake to do this work to do it; but Mr. Garrett is just as much opposed to it as the Senfrom Nevada.