Mr. FESSENDEN. The speech of the Senfrom Indiana satisfied me, if I needed any satisfaction on that point, of the truth of the remark I made, that when you put the interest of its public in competition with a railroad bill, the former does not stand any chance at all. The thing, as I said before, is mysterious, but mens minds work so. I do not care an thin about his land avenue; I would as ief the cars should run through that avenue as not; what I object to is crossing Pennsylvania avenue at this point, and running alon the Capitol grounds. I object to anything that will furnish apermanent dif ficulty in the way of extending the Capitol grounds. I think there is something on this earth of value to a people besides money and commerce and tra e. I think that when a rent Government like this has put up a building like this, the grounds around it ought to beof suitable extent. If they are lar eenough, so be it. I do not see any necessity or extending them on the cast; but I do for extending them toward the river. It is, however, a matter of taste, a matter of opinion. I do not say that my opinion is good for much on such a question; but such was my opinion at the time when the proposition to which I have alluded was made. If it had been carried out at that time the expense would not have been as enormous nor so great by any means as it will be now. The expense then would have been comparatively small. It may perhaps be too expensive now, and it may be too late to accomplish the object; but it is a thing which of all others I should like to have done, because I hope the time will arrive of course I shall not live to see it when a building like this which is a glory to the country shall be surrounded by grounds of suitable extent. The sooner we begin to provide for them the better; and when we have one it, I think that a little spot on the face of the earth of 100 acres or so might be spared for the Capitol of a great nation like this, even to the extreme incon venience of a railroad company of requiring them to take another direction around the grounds instead of goinglthrough them. This is the whole argument, that it would costthem a little more money, they would have to go a little further to get on one side clear of the Capitol grounds, where we meet, and where we are to meet. It would be a little more expensive to them; but I think that there are arguments of sutheient consequence if we could on y find them, whya private company should be put to a little more expense and inconven ience rather than that they should put every body else to inconvenience and subject every body else to danger. It may be, however, that I am mistaken, and that there is nothing which ought to come in competition with the interests of a railroad company.