Mr. ONEILL. I desire to ask my colleague, the chairman of the ComCommerce, if he will not withdraw his call for the previous question for the present. I ask him to allow me, "before I sit down, to make amotion to refer this bill to the ComJudiciary, and I do it because itinvolves many legal questions of great magnitude and importance to the country, and the members of tcHouse, perBlaine, hops, would be better satisfied to have those a gentlemen who have been selected for their legal ability to constitute that committee, to pass nponit. Without referring at all to the questions which may be involved, to what railroad companies may be interested, or how it may affect. this State or that, I think we should hesitate in passing a bill which has not. been before us this session, which has not been printed and upon our files, and which raises questions of constitutional law and State action requiring grave consideration, and especially demanding careful and not hasty legislation. I do not. wish to enter into the details of this nestion; I do not wish to make an argument or or against the bill; but I do ask the House and my colleague on the ComCommerce, its distinguished chairman, to permit me to make the motion indicated, so that the judicial organ of this body may report upon it; and I ask it without reference to any railroad corporation. but simply that we may know from the ComJudiciary whether we are notin fringing upon rights, privileges, and franchises which we should not do without a full understanding and properinvestigation. The questions involved seem to me to belong rather to the ComJudiciary than to the ComCommerce. I do not desire this reference for purposes of delay. I am not trying to subserve the interests of any corporation. I have always been in favor of developing all sections of our country by railroad and other enterprises, and would not, for a day even, retard the completion of those which, from want of means, may be struggling for existence against the power of wealthier monopolies. I hope that the chairman of the ComCommerce will give me an opportunity of moving that the bill be referred to the ComJudiciary, and that he will not call the previous question. If he cannot consent to of this, I will be constrained to vote against any further prog ress in the bill today.