Mr. FOSTER. Certainly; there is no doubt about that; but even if the language had been less well chosen when the subject is committed into the hands of 3 gentlemen like these it will not be in the power of the honorable Senfrom Iowa, skillful as he may be in finding difficulties where he wishes to find them, to persuade the Senate that that board would not do their whole duty and do exactly what was necessary to be done to accomplish President, I the purpose in view. There is no manner of danger that they would select a site so small: that it could not be used with advantage, no danger that they would purchase so much that it would bankrupt the .to pay for it. I think in regard to these gentlemen we may say what it is said the late lamented Chief Justice Mar shall once said to a practitioner in the Supreme Court who commenced an argument of a cause by going back somewhat to the A by C's of the E. The learned Chief Justice, after hearing him with great patience, as was his practice, for some time, finally interrupted him and said, “Sir, from the peculiar organization of this court I think it may perhaps be Presumed that the judges do know something.” I think that we may Presume that the firee gentlemen named in this amendment do know something, and that when by an act of the Congress of the U.S. they are called upon and it is made their duty to select a suitable place for a navy yard it will be safe to leave the matter to their discretion, and there will be no danger that that discretion will not be wisely exercised. In regard, then, to the amendment, I think it is perfectly clear that it will accomplish all it is necessary to accomplish under this 111. But, Mr. President, the honorable Senfrom Indiana and the honorable Senfrom Iowa object that here is really no other purpose than to change the navy yard at Philadel phia from its Present location to another location, and that is all which the Senate can now be. called upon to consider. I do not understand that that is any question at all. Has there been any complaint in regard to the navy yard at Philadelphia that it is not perfectly adequate for all the purposes for which, anavy yard is required at i.locality?