Mr. Gornnw] and by the Senfrom Maine, Mr. Fasssxnns] that the purchase ought to be made. such is the opinion of the SecyNav Y. the chiefof the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and of every Navy officer, so far as I know or am informed, who has been stationed at the Charlestown navy yard during the last 5 years. The eminent officer now in command of that yard is very decided and emphatic on this behalf, and has never hesitated in expressing his conviction that the best interests of the service require that the purchase be at once made. I believe that if an attempt shall be made to improve the yard, as it is proposed by those who oppose this purchase that it shall be improve, by building wharves out at the lower end of the ground now owned by the Government, which is near the delta. created by the confluence of the waters of the Mystic and Charles rivers, it will have a tendency to de stroy the harbor of Boston; and not only that, but it will cause the sediment to settle above those wharves, and destroy the only good landing or wharves we now have. But from the fact that a portiouof the people of Charlestown are severe y h0 tll6 to the purchase, and that the committee on the part of the HoRep. at the iend of whom was the immediate representative of that locality, were unwilling to agree to it, the Senate committee thought that it was better nottojeopardizathe passage of this bill on account of this purchase alone. All I have to say now is that so far as I am concerned, if the people ofCharlestown, or of Massachusetts, are not disposed to allow the Government to own the ground that it is necessary for it to have in order to carry on the public business, and to establish such a yard as the necessities of a great commercial and mar itime nation require, I shall be willing, and shall recommend to the Senate, upon some future occasion, to remove the yard, to dispose of the property there, and to establish a yard at some point where we can get the necessary facilities. The report was concurred in. BILLS INTRODUCED.