Mr. SHERMAN. I move, then, to postpone the further consideration of this bill until the 1st Monday of December next. I will state the reason why I am induced to make this motion. This bill, we all know, involves an appropriation ultininteliv of $6,000,000. It is for the purpose of bui ding a very important work, well understood by every member of the Senate, around the falls of Niagara, within the State of NewYork. The ComCommerce of the Senate have reported, as an amendment to this bill, the following section: SEC.28. Abife:, 'That this act shall not take effect unless the Legislature of the State of newYork shall, within oneyear of the date hereof.give its assentthereto. The consequence is, that if we shall spend much of the remaining hours of the session upon this bill, no action can be had under it until after the Legislature of NewYork meets; and that, I am informed, is not until the 1st Monday in January next. This bill also proA motion "): uses to incorporate a company to build an improvement within the State of NewYork, an it involves very grave constitutional questions, which always give rise to debate in this body. If the State of NewYork assent s to the building of this work within its limits, and by a corporation of the U.S., and if the provisions of this bill depend upon that condition recedent, it is manifestly proper that we should 1st get the assent of the State of NewYork; and to avoid the constitutional questions that will be raised, it will be very proper that this corporation should be a corporation of the State of NewYork, and that the grant of congress should be to the corporation of the State of NewYork, upon such conditions as Congress may prescrib'e. I am not willing to pass a law involving an appropriation of $6,000,000, the validity of which will depend upon the act of a State e gislature, or the assent of a State to that law. I think we ought to compel the smaller power to not 1st, and give our consent afterward; and then if the State of NewYork consents to the building of a canal within its limits around the falls of Niagara, it must be done by the Legislature of that State, and that cannot be done until January next; and they might deem it much more proper to have this improvement constructed by a corporation organized under the laws of that State. Then it will be time enough for Congress to say whether it will grant aid on the part of the U.S. to the construction of the work. It seems to me we are putting the cart before the horse. We ought to wait until the Legislature of the State of NewYork acts, until it incorporates a company, and then we may in the usual way aid to any extent we may see proper in the construction of this work; but for us, at this period of the session, to vaste our time upon the passage of a bill the whole validity of which e ends 11 on the subsequent action of the Legisature o a State, it seems to me is not awise disposition of the few days we have left.