Mr. NORTON. I hope this amendment will not be adopted for several reasons; chiefly from the fact that this company, the Wine na and StPeters Railroad Company, has no authority to build a railroad to apoint on the Mississippi river opposite the city of LaCrosse. This company is building a road west from the city of Wine na, and also has a charter author iain it to construct a road on the east side of the river from a point opposite the city of Wine na to intersect with the Milwaukee and LaCrosse road. This company has no authority, nor is there any company in the State of Wisconsin incorporated t iat has authority to build a railroad from Wine na to LaCrosse. There is a road in process of construction from LaCrosse, oro posite LaCrosse, westwardly, running through Minnesota, now running perhaps 20 or 30 miles. To the construction of a bridge at that point to connect those 2 roads, there is no objection on the part of the people of Minnesota; certainly none on the part of the persons interested in the construction of this bridge at Wine na. The effect of the amendment proposed by the Senfrom Wisconsin is to inaugurate, or rather to continue, a local contest between the city of LaCrosse and the city of Winena. The Senfrom Wisconsin proposes to amend the bill by authorizing the construction of a bridge either at Wine na or LaCrosse as the Legislatures of Wisconsin and Minnesota may agree. The result of that would be that the Legislature of Wisconsin, consulting the interests of the city of LaCrosse, would insist upon the construction of the bridge at LaCrosse, an(I would not consent to the construction of a bridge at. Wine na; and the Legislature of Minnesota would withhold its consent to the construction of a bridge at LaCrosse, and insist upon its being at Wine na. The consequence would be, the Legislatures not agreeing, that there would be no bridge built. Now, sir, the interests of the 2 States will be subserved and there will be no conflict of interest between these points if we allow the construction of a bridge at LaCrosse when the railroad companies touching the river at that point and opposite to it shall desire it; and to that the State of Minnesota has no sort of objection; and we think that the State of Wisconsin ought to have no objection to the construction of abridge at the city of Wine na, where the Wine na and StPeters Railroad Companv now have some 70 miles of read, an are engaged in the construction of a road on the east side of the river. The effbet of the amendment proposed by the Senfrom Wisconsin, if ndopte, will be inevitably that there will be a disa reement between the States of Wise onsinaugdMinnesota on this subject, and consequently no bridge will be built. I hope it will not be adopted.