Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not wish to appear pertinacious about this matter; but it has occurred to my mind that in preparing his amendments, the Senator did not take into consideration the circumstances under which the local ins ectors at Portland, in Oregon, are compelled to act. At points a on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, at. Wheeling, for instance, I suppose the local inspector can perform his duties at that place; but the inspector at Port land, in Oregon, ins ects some of the steam boats at that city. hen there are the falls of the Willamette, in the Willamette river, that cannot be passed by steainboats, and steam boats are constructed above those falls, and it is necessary for the local inspector to go there and make his inspection. Then there are steam boatson the Columbia river below the cascades. Those are to be inspected at Portland. Then there is another portion of the river between the cascades and the Dalles where other steam boats for the navigation of the Columbia are constructed, and the ins cctor must go there to examine those steam ioats. Then above the Dalles, there is another part of the Columbia river, where boats are constructed, and the inspector living at Portland is compelled to go above the Dalles for the purpose of inspecting those steamboats; and so upon the Snake river and the other branches of the Columbia river. There are 2 or 3 portages upon the Columbia river, and upon the branches of the river there are iortages, and materials are taken up from Portland to the portions of the river above these portages and there the boats are constructed, and it is necessary for the inspectors to go therein order toinspectthoseboats; sothatan inspector at Portland, in Oregon, has very much more labor and must necessarily incur much more excase than an ins ector livin at the city of heeling, on the (Iahio river, w o, as I understand, is not compelled to travel any great distance for the purpose of discharging his du ties. I am not, however, particularly advised on that subject; but I know that in Oregon the local inspectors are compelled to travel 2 or 300 miles or more for the purpose of performing their duties. In addition to the other reasons that I assigned before, I think these are sufficient to induce the adoption.of the amendment that I have proposed.