Mr. CLARK. I was going to call the attention of the Senfrom Maine to much the some consideration that has been presented by the Senfrom Indiana; and that is the question whether there are any persons as proposed in this corporation who contemplate undertaking the business of manufacturing within this District. If there be an association of gentlemen who desire to manufacture or to mine here and who think it necessary to have an act of incorporation to enable them to do so success fhlly and properly, I have no objection to grant,ing them an act of incorporation; but if it is an act of incorporation to bring into existence an artificial person to run all over the Union, then I say we ought not to grant it. What would be the result if every State in the Union should come to enacting cororations of that kind? suppose the State of I NewYork should pass acts O incorporation authorizing a body of gentlemen to mine allover the country; the State of NewHampshire should pass acts of incorporation authorizing people to manufacture all over the country; and the State of Pennsylvania should pass acts of incorporation, if they could do so, authorizing people to bank all over the country, and then you set these fictitious persons running all over the country to find some opportunity of doing business; what would be the condition of the country? It seems to me that these acts of incorporation should be made auxiliary to the business of the country. Where this necessity is shown 1st, or a convenience in any way of operation, then we ought to grant it. I have no great opposition to granting acts of incor poration to properparties within the District; and if in the prosecution of that business in the District they find it necessary to go into other States and operate there, I have no objection. If, for instance, you hould incorporate an insurance company to do business in this District, and they should find it necessary to run into all the States of the Union in a legitimate way, I have no objection to it. But I have a very great objection to incorporating this company tor the purpose of sending them elsewhere, when they are not doing or desirous of doing business here. The Senfrom Maine, undoubtedly, knows whether these people propose to go into business here; whether they are an association of gentlemen under taking it here, or whether he is creating an artificial person to enable it for speculative purposes, or for some purpose outside of the district, to do business. I think he will see a very great objection to doing that. I think we should not pass this bill without grave consideration.