Mr. CLARK. I think the Senfrom Michigan could hardly have contemplated the extreme extent to which this bill goes. As I understand its provisions, it gives this company the right to land and erect a telegraph line on any land along the shore over which the U.S. have jurisdiction. It may O into a navy yard anywhere, and run right t rough it for 25 years and hold the exclusive jurisdiction. It may go into any fort; it may oany where where the U.S. have juris iction over an inch of land from the extreme coast of Maine to the extreme coast of Florida, and all around the Gulf. Does the Senfrom Michigan mean totie up the jurisdiction of the Governmentnt of the U.S. for 25 years in every place along the whole coast? such is the extent of the bill, and its fair construction. There is not a navy yard, nor a fort, nor a place anywhere upon the coast in which this company have not a right to land and erect their to egraph. I certainly would not grant that privilege for one year, much less tie it up exclusively for 25 years. I would know where these people propose to go before granting them this privilege. It is perfectly aston ishing to me that we propose to rant such facil ities at once by one bill. I siould be loath to say that nobody else should have a right to land another line of telegraph in the State of not think it is our fault, but one of the unfor NewYork or in the harbor of NewYork; but, when you propose to tie up every other harbor and every river and every spot where we have jurisdiction for 25 years, I am not pre pared to vote. for it. It is very true when they l have located their line at any spot, everybody must be by that line, and they may maloe their own O arges, and have complete control of it;. but that, in my judgment, is nothing scarcely to be weighed against the extreme power we propose to give them to go into any harbor along this whole coast. It seems to me the bill cannot have been considered as it ought to have been. I hope it will not. pass, certainly not without the most mature consideration.