Mr. TRUMBULL if one will look at this Senate I think he will be satisfied that this is a very improper manner to consider claims of this kind. This claim, whatever it may be, oughtto go to our Court of Claims or to some i.where it would bejudicially investigated. here are perhaps a dozen Senators here present, not a quorum certainly; and of those here present, not half a dozen pay any attention to the consideration of this question. Of course there is little encouragement to attempt to explain it, or to get the views of thosewho disagree with the Senfrom Indiana, or for him to get his views before the so so that the body can vote understand ldgiv. have looked into the papers in this case since I was up before. The circumstances had edout of my mind somewhat when the resoufion was called up, and I was then unable to stateall the facts aboutit. I have since looked at the papers carefully; and sitting as a judge on the bench I should no more think of allowing this claim to a party than I could think of handing $25,000 to any man on Pennsylvania avenuewho might come here and ask for it. That would be my view. The Senfrom Indiana is equally clear that the claim ought to be paid equitably and legally. It seems otherwise to me, and because it seemed so to me I madethis motion to reconsider, in order that the Senate might, if it would listen to it, see what the case was. I think it is very simple. If we leave out these 5%. funds that have really nothing to do with the case we could get at it. The Senfrom Wisconsin said that the State of Wisconsin had not anything to do with this matter; that it was a matter which affected the Territory of Wisconsin, and that in a part of the statement I had made I was correct and in a part of iIt was not correct, and that was one of the respects in which he corrected me. I have referred to the statutes since and I have been enabled to go through the papers, and I go think I can now make a statement that will be accurateand succinct and may be understood by thosewho listen to me. !n 1838, on the 18th of June, Congress passed a law granting to the then Territory of Wisconsin 1 odd 1,000 acres of land for the purpose of making this improve.ment. The land was not granted to any canal ompany; it was granted to the Territory of Wisconsin for the purpose of making an improvement. It was provided in that law: That whenever the Territory of Wisconsin shall he admitted ind to the tinfon aas granted for the construction $tate the inds hereb of the said canal, or such Athereof as may not have been already sold and applied to that object under the direction of ritorial governments, halivest theter in the State of Wisconsin to be disposed of under such regulations as the Legislature thereof may provide.” Then the grant of land was to the State of Wisconsin as well as the Territory.