Mr. WENTWORTH. I know this, that if I have right on my side God will support me. [Laughter] But, Mr. Speaker, how long is it since a bill was offered to give some poor soldier 8 dollars a month, and somebody called out for the report? “ Where is “ the report in thatcase I” Let us have the report.” Now only look at this bill. The joke of it is that you yourselves do not know how much money you are to give. You nor. only give it without any report, but you cannot tell how much you ive. Now. here is a nice thing. but the people at the West understand these things. Some eastern man must have drawn this. When some of our Yankee friends 1st came out there and advocated it they said it was a good thing. But it is lplayed out now. Live Suckers and Hoosiers nowall aboutthis, and what it means. Here is your original bill and charter. Certain things are to transpire when the road is commenced. Now, here comes in that dangerous thing, the amendment to the original bill, and that is to define what commences the road. Now, if any of ou do not know when the road is commence, here is the law of Congress, atprecedent to be quoted on us hereafter, an act of the 39th Congress: Sec. 5. Abife: That the commencement of the surveyotthe railroad and telegraph line in good faith shall be deemedand consideredto be the commencement of the work within the meaning and intent of the act of incorporation. I heard a man once say that he did not care much what they called him if they did not impugn his good sense. [Laughter] Now, I do think that this is an insult to the good sense of this House, to make us define that to be the commencement of the road. But in order that members of Congress might not know anything about it we have had an evenin session and had the previous question move in the night. Everything was to be hurried through without any chance to consider the matter, and we were to deoiue when this road was to be commenced how? Why, “within the meaning and intent of the act of incorporation.” Now, it was not supposed in that hours time that we should run back to the library I do not know but what it is locked at night and get this act of incorporation. But I want to say that the drift of my argument now is to show that this bill should have been referred to the ComPubLands. That was the committee that origi nated these measures, that started the precedent of all these land grants the Illinois Cen tral railroad. Had this gone to that committee they would have made it conform to prior grants, and they would not have made this suppgemental bill interfere with the original bill. ere is what alarms me and my constituents. I have been anxious, and am still, that the right sort of a bill should pass, and I say now, that when this bill shall be made to conorm to the usual precedent in the case I shall probably be as warm a supporter of it as there is in the House. But I want it to go through the usual form. I want it to be properly discussed. I want this supplemental bill to be compared with the original bill. Look at the 6th section of this bill: 51:0. 6. Abife:, That the said company may from time to time alter and change the ocation of its line whenever such change will the better carry out the purposesset forth in the not of incor oration. by filing in the officeof the SecyInterior adescription of the new line adopted. Now, we are not permitted to know the intentions of these men. They have riot submitted their by laws. I have been a director of railroads and we have had to have certain by laws and certain minutes; and when we under took to negotiate a loan, or to do this, that, or the other thin, we sent out extracts certilied by properauthority from our minutes as well as from our by laws. But here we have no information on that subject in regard to this company, and I, who represent the largest congressional district in the U.S., am entirely uninformed on the subject.