Mr. GRIMES. I can only tell what the PostMGenl meant by what he said. This is a paragraph that is entirely disconnected with any other branch of this subject. The preceding paragraph is in these words: “I have been furnishedby the Deptof State with n.summaryof arrivals and departures of Amorican vessels at the port of Honolulu during 1865 also yoef ainr.ward and outward bound cargoes for the same which is appended hereto and from which it will be soonthat we have a profitable trade with the Sandwich Island s.susceptible of increaseby means of direct steamshipeommunication.” They propose to take off that direct steam sh“ip communication. In determiningthe questionwhen the company's I do not think that is very creditable, 5 either to the company or to the knowledge of 1 steamers shall be relieved. if at all. hm calling the SandwichIslands on their voyagesin either (1 rection, it should be borne in mind that, until the completion of the Pncific rnilrond. the generalintr r ests of commercc will not be materially advancedby permitting the steamers to take thodircctroute either wny.ns. prior to that time. the line between China and Europe. via SanFrancisco and NewYork. will not bean equal competition, in point of expedition, with the existing hues betweenEurope and China, via Suez." M Now, Mr. President, will it not be well to let this thing rest and let these contractors fulfill the terms of their contract for a little while until we shall be a little nearer to completing the Pacific railroad than we are at present? One word, sir, as to the genera American interests at the SandwichIslands. I suppose I am not as well qualified to speak upon that subject as some other gentlemen are; but it has so ha pened within the last 3 or 4 years that Iphave every day almost been brought in contact with persons who have been stationed more or less of their time at the Sandwich Isl lands, and I can only give such information to the members of this body, in a sort of 2nd hand way, as I have been able to receive from them; and they are mostly officers of the naval profession. A very large proortion of the property in the Sandwich Is an s is owned by citizens of the U.S., and, until within the last 8 or 10 years, American interests have been vastly in the preponderance there. A few years ago the present King overturned the Government, overturned the constitution, and established a new Government, and this new Government has been in the interests of GreatBritain. He is childless. The next in authority under him was the Princess Victoria, of whose death we were notified a few days ago. Next in authority, or whom the British authorities will seek to place on the throne, but who is not really the heir apparent or entitled to the throne, is the Dowager Queen Emma, now in the custody of GreatBritain.