Mr. FAI NSWORTH. There is to be water communication in the summer season only. It will be very much better to build a ship canal across the Isthmus, for then you will have water communication all the year round for ships to sail from ocean to ocean. Another reason why I think it is not necessary nor practicable to undertake the construction of another Pacific railroad at this time is this: it requires only 300 miles ofrail to make a complete line of water and rail communication from Salt Lake City to Portland in the State of Oregon. All on require is the construction of 300 miles of railroad from Salt Lake to the head of navigation on the Columbia river. If it is necessary, therefore, that we shall have a railroad to Oregon and the l l waters of the Columbia river, it is much more feasible to build a branch road from Saltliuke l City to Salt Lake, and then from the other end of Salt Lake extending through to connect with the head of navigation on the Columbia river. There you have a good country. such a route passes through the Territory of Idaho, a rich, growing, an flourishing Territory. You get then from the main stem or the main trunk of the Central Pacific railroad 2 arms to the Pacific ocean, one to SanFrancise o and the other to Portland, Oregon. But at the same time I think it is not practicable or feasible to undertake at this time to build more than one road to the Pacific. I repeat what I said before, I am in favor at the earliest practicable moment when the country demands it of building 2, 4,or ten railroads to the Pacific. I am willing to make a liberal grant of land to aid in the construction of these roads. the extent of $69,000,000 in the present de ranged financial condition of the country. I am not willing to put the Government under a liability of $09,000,000 for what. I consider at the present time unnecessary. this is aside from my objection to this bill, which is that it is a speculative measure. We were told by the chairman when he reported this bill 2 years ago that land and land alone would build this road; that this company only wanted land; that they would not calrupon the Geiernmentfor money. We find that that company was organized; and we are told now, not by authority, but by.what I suppose may be regardedas the authorized mouth piece of the company here, by the Gentfrom Vermont, that that company has sold out their charter ButI am not willing to give, my vote to render the Government liable to Woonnnwca] for what little money they had expended. But 5 I have seen no official report of any moneys expended by this company. I have seen no report of any survey made by the company. I suppose it does take money to raise the wind, as it is called. I suppose money is expended in getting up companies, in getting their charters, in lobbying, in traveling over the country to procure the indorsement of Boards of Trade. If these are the expenditures to which the gentleman referred, to reimburse which they sold out this charter, I wish he would say so; but as for any other expenditure in the way of survey or the locating of the road or the commencement of work upon the road, we have certainly no knowledge of it. They have not commenced the work. That is shown by the provision which they have inserted in this bill that the commencement of a survey in good faith shall be taken to be the commencement of the work within the meaning of the bill. The original bill provided that the charter should become void and that they should forfcit all right under it if they d“id not commence the work within 2 years. Work ” it is generally understood what that means. To commence making the railroad that is commencing the work. They come now to Congress and ask that we shall insert in their charter a provision that when they send out a surveyor in good faith to commence the survey that shall be considered a commencement of the work, although they may not break ground for years afterward. Now, sir, I would like to know, I wish some gentleman would tell me, who is to be the judge as to when they commence this survey in good faith: who is to be the judge of the bonafides of this survey? Is it. the POTUS or the president of the compan, or is it Congress? and if Congress is to judge of this, upon what evidence arewc to base our judgment? The commencement of the survey in good faith? Why, I suppose, then, if they hire a surveyor and send him out to survey a mile of land on the supposed route, it is such a commencement of the survey of the road as is sufficient to save the charter.