Mr. WENTWORTH. I rise to a personal explanation. I have been boardin at a public hotel in this city during most of t iis winter. I have had gentlemen call on me at the hotel, respectable gentlemen, to tell me about the Pacific railroad. Each of these gentlemen very kindly gave me his views of what would be to the interest of this country. If I know myself, that is exactly my policy; I want to do what is to the interest of this country. I was told that these bills were coming from the Senate, and when they came I expected to hear from these railroad men at the West, and at their views. Some of them wrote to me. heysaid when the bills came to the House and were referred to the committee they would come and explain their views. I watched the bills. They came to the Speaker’s table. Now, the Gentfrom Pennsylvania thinks he was taken advantage of. I do not like to see him going back on himself. When other people have impugned his sagaeity I have stood up or him, as everybody knows. These bills were on the Speaker’s table, and I was informed by one side of this case that the gentlemen from Pennsylvania would take care 0 that side. I thought that I could safely take care of the other side by moving to refer the bill to himself. He is on the committee to which we referred this bill, and I thought itwould be doing him no injustice to refer it to him. There is no man in this House who has followed him so blindly as I have. [Laughten] My friendfrom Pennsylvania made a motion the other day to is one bill on the table. I was not watching t iat bill. That was his bus iness, not mine. But when we came to the preper bill I wanted to send it somewhere, and where could I send it better than into the arms of my friendfrom Pennsylvania? So, into his arms I sent it, and there it is now. Now, Mr. Speaker, I am free to say that I know nothing about the merits of these bills. I have heard both sides kindly, fairly, and im artially. But from along experience in this house, I have no confidence in the professions of a lobby man anyhow. He is like a lawyer, he works for hisclient; and when a man comes into this House and tells me his story, I regard him just like a lawyer. He has got his fee and is working for the men who sent him here. I have heard the lobby men on both sides of this question, and I have asked that this bill might go to this committee. I am opposed to leaving it on the Speaker’s table, because some morning or evening when but few of us are here it will be taken up and passed. It is not a thing that is to be discusse in the ComWhole on the state of the Union, and 5 minutes will settle the case when the lobby have notified their men. Therefore, without saying anything more either for or against it, I propose that it do not lie on the Speaker’s table, where any member can get up here some after noon and take a snap judgment on the House.