Mr. SPALDING. My friend will pardon me. I do not mean to interpose this as argument s ainst the final adoptionof League sl and only say that this ting struck me when I was a member of the Naval Committee, that ata certain season of the year the island was inaccessible. I know the gentleman admitted here in argument that it needed the expenditure of a vast sum of money to prepare that island for the superstructure for an iron clad navy srd more than a million dollars, probably, before the soil will receive the superstructure. Well, now are we to adopt this present site contemplated by the bill before us With the notion that we are to simply transfer the old wooden ship navy yard if I may so characterize itrom the city of Philadelphia to League Island, and there let the matter drOp? That is not the question at all. If it was only contemplated that the Government should take League Island and transfer the present navy yard from Philadelphia, with its present capacity, down to that portion of League Island which will admit of p the superstructure, we gerha would not find it so objectionable. but not is not the end of it. It is only the commencement. Then Congress will be called upon from year to year to appropriate its million dollars for League Island and for the iron clad vessels to be constructed and repaired there. There is no question about that. It is to be a great nav yard of the nation. Now, sir, I as if it is too much for this House to request of the gentlemen who are interested at one point and the other, that a commission, learned in this matter, made up of scientific men from the Army and Navy, shall go out and explore the different points that mu be presented for exploration, and be require to report to this Congress at its next session, for final action, giving to us League Island, if they find that to be the best, or Port land, or Portsmouth, or apoint on the Hudson river, or on the Patuxent, or any point that the commission may say to us has the niost merit. Then we will fix an iron clad navy yard upon it, and vote the necessary appropriation. I am in favor of the substitute for the bill, expecting that itwill be so modified as to require the commissioners to report at the next session of this Congress.