Mr. WENTWORTH. Exactly; thatis what I was coming to. They made a very liberal offer in that respect, and they asked on our art a guarantee to them of our trade. I would like to see the man that would do it. I have no doubt if it was in the power of this government to guarant to Canada for ten ears our trade the Canadians would take hol and enlarge that canal. But where is the man to execute the bond? I am as desirous of providing an outlet for the western trade as anybody, but I have not despaired of NewYork yet. I hope there are men in that State whose as triotism bears the same relation to that of Be Witt Clinton that the great NewYork and Erie canal bears to the small canal around the falls of Niagara. I hopethat the Empire State will yet condescend to give us that little bit of a canal. My own State has been trying to get a canal to connect the lakes and rivers. cspairing of that, she has gone to work and made a contract to deepen the present canal, giving up for the presentthe idea of enlarging it and when we have done that we hope to have the aid of the legislation of Congress. Instead of being driven over to Canada to make a treaty with them for an outlet, we hope to be able to get it from the State of NewYork, and if the Empire vState cannot do it herself, then we want the nation to do it. That is stillthat can be done for us out West just now. This treatv, which depends upon the ipse dizit of the POTUS is of no real value to us. It secures to us nothing, and even if it did, it is de eudent entirely upon the whims of a man who apens to be at the head of the Government for as ort time. Mr. Chairman, I think this bill should be sent back to the committee for the present, because I understand the chairman to have intimated to the House that in making the other tariff bill some local matters were passed over in relation to Canada in consequence of that reciprocity treaty. Whatever extra legislation is now wanted in consequence of the exiration of this treaty I have no doubt this House would unanimously pass and when we have secured that we could see whether this was wanted. I know there is one alarming state of thin, and that is the fisheries. But I take it or granted that our NewEngland friendswill observe all the laws and treaties of this country, and when they know that they cannot O upon those old fishing grounds which they have so long enjoyed, they will not do anything that will plunge this country into difficulty on that account. If our fishermen should go there with their vessels, I an pose they will take the consequences, and i those consequences are as serious as they are represented, then this House would be in session, and itwill not take as long to legislate upon the matter.