Mr. MORRILH. Mr. President, ifyou look at this bill you will see that it is confined simply to the fwo points I have named, and it reserves to the Government during wa the free use of this line; and in addition to that, to put it out of the power of these parties to may O its monopoly in the sense which is odious or in which monopoly was ever odious, and that is giving a power to make unreasonable charges. congress reserves to itself the right to alter or amend this charter in any manner it sees fit. It keeps the whole thing within its control and within its power; and if it is found to be a monopoly o crating to the injury of the public it can repeal) it tomorrow or repeal it the very next day or the very next ear after the line is laid down. Now, I ask i that comes within the sense of a monopoly which is obnoxious. Whatis proposed? The enterprise, I suppose, is commendable in itself. I suppose Congress would not object to this company opening communications between Cuba and our own coast. ThatI take it is commendable. New, on what terms ought it to be done? On the most liberal terms that you could expect to have it done. Is it reasonable to expect that any company will undertake to do it upon more reasonable terms? It is itipossible to conceive that any company could be required to do it upon more reasonable terms. he word “ sole " being limited, as I have said, by the power of the government over it, it ceases to ea monopoly in any sense whatever. ho e, Mr. President, that this bill wiIl not be hel up here as obnoxious to the charge of monopoly. My honorable friend, the chair man of the ComCommerce, has suggested that it is only similar in its provisions to the grants which we make every day to every patentee of any improvement whatever. We ive him the exclusive privilege of it, and why? eeause his brain has invented it. simply. Is it a premium on the brain or the genius of the man? No sir. It is to encourage similar in ventions. This is precisely in that line. We do these things, givet ese privileges to encourage enterprises, and enterprises which are beneficial to the public. Nobody will doubt that this enterprise is beneficial. It eughtnot to be for gotten that these people do not ask any subsid. Not long since we granted a privilege to uild a line of tcle raph across the conti neat to the Pacific, and my recollection is that we gave to that line $40,000 a year subsidy for ten years.