Mr. SHERMAN. No; we give them power to condemn ifnecessary, and we do not restrain them except by their own self interest; and what has been the result? In the State of Ohio we have a network of railways running in all directions throu by that State, many paral lel to each other. I do not think there is a county in the State of Ohio that is not nowsup J roads. plied with one or more railroads, checkering the State all over. It is true some of the investments are very poor; but still we have the railroads, and they are of vast public service; but when they come to our eastern border we are there met by 3 great corporations, each of them of mammoth proportions, that refuse to let the products of the West go to a cheap market in theEast without some unreasonable restriction. Takethe caseof the Pennsylvania Central railroad, the coloration to which I have already alluded. T are are 3 lines of railroads concentrating at Pittsburg, running through the State of Ohio, one from Cleveland, one from Chicago, one ftorn Cincinnati, and a great number offeeders runninginto these 3 In this way the travel and the produce of any part of Ohio can readily reac Pitts burg; but how is the vast produce concen trated at this one important point to get from Pittsburg to Philade phia, or any other market? Only orer the Pennsylvania Central railroad; there is no other way for the vast commerce of the great West concentrated there to reach the eastern market; and that company has now an annual income of $17,000,000. The compel the products of every portion of the Vest which reach Pittshurg to go over their road; and they will not allow any ody else to build a railroad running from Pittsbnrg north wardly to st to NewYork or southwardly to get to Ba timore. They control, in nygreat measure, the legislation of Pennsylvania, and they lie right in the path of the commerce of this country. It seems to me that since we have exercised some pretty strong powers, the time has arrived when, ifwe can, we should find in the Constitution some power to redress this evil. Every portion of this country labors under the evils growing out of this stem. In NewEngland they have to pay hig ier prices for the produce they consume. In NewYork they arecrip led also, because the cit of NewYork lies in a little peninsula stretcing down south of the great body of the State of NewYork, and the recent action of this company in the State of Pennsylvania has prevented the construction of a new line of railway along the northern border of the State of Pennsylvania to reach the city of NewYork. The city of Bel timore is cut offfromeoanootion with us, and was the western portion of the State of Pennsylvania; and this corporation compels the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to creep down along and over the most difficult mountains in the U.S. to reach Wheeling and the southern part of the State of Ohio, while it has been cansidered, lbelieve, for morethan 100 years, since the time of Washington, that the natural outlet for the commerce of the West to the East is through the gap of mount ains from Pittsburg to Cumberland. That was the route that was traveled by Washington in his earl adventures to the West. It was the great line of travel long before anyone of these railroads was made; it was the line of the old Pennsylvania wagons; it was the line of the old Cumberland road which I traveled in a sta e and crossed the mountains before this rai road was built and yet that line pointed out by nature is blocked up by a corporation. It seems to me that if there is any power in the Government to prevent this, it ought to be exercised. I do not think the passage of this bill will do any good now, because it has been so cut a;and if, as my friendfrom Maine has ur e in his argument, there is no power in the general Government to control or regulate the building of a railroad within a State, as a matter of course weshall have to submit to it until the people of the great State of Pennsylvania rise up in rebellion against the authority of this cororation.