Mr. DONNELLY. I propose to add after the word “ Maine” in the 16th line of the 4th section the following: “At the Zunibro river. Minnesota, at the Cannon river. Minnesota." Mr. Speaker, these rivers penetrate into one of the richest agricultural regions ofiny district; regions overflowing annually with great crops of ain and whoseimportance is annually increasing. The Znmbro river can be, I am assured, made navigable for steamboats for 40 miles from where it enters the Mississippi river; and thus develop immensely the country for a space of 20 miles around it, while it will have a beneficial effect upon the growth of the entire region in which it is situated, and the towns upon the Mississippi to which it is tributary. The Cannon river canbe greatly improved, and it is the belief of many in my State that a system of water communication can be created, reaching, by canal from the mouth of the Cannon river through streams and water courses to the Minnesota river. It will be for the officers who make the survey to determine how far so great an enterprise would be practicable at this time, or if not, how much of it shall now be attempted. Of one thing we can be assured, that such awork would have the most enormous and instantaneous effect in settling and devel oping all that rich reion of countr, 2nd to none in the U.S. in fiertility and intrinsic value. The Legislature of my State has memorialized for both these improvements, and has asked for land grants to aid them. I prefer that an appropriation should be made in money; and as it is evident by the appropriations already made by this bill that it is the intention of Congress to make liberal advances for the development and improvement of rivers and harbors, I can see no reason why the young and rapidly growing State of Minnesota should not participate in the largcese s of the Government; an as I cannot ask for definite appropriations without a previous survey and examination to ascertain t camount requisite, I therefore offer these amendments to the bill, so that these rivers can be examined and we may know distinctly, when the next session of Congress convenes, just what amount of appropriation will be necessary., The bill also contains a provision for a similar survey of the Mississippi river between Fort Snelling and the falls of StAnthon. The importance of the work contemplate in such a survey cannot be overestimated. It would carry the navigation of the Mississippi river up to the foot of the great falls of Stxiiithon and make continuous navigation in an almost direct line north and south from that point to the Gulf of Mexico. The head of such a mighty valley cannot be unimportant. Around it are already clustering great cities StPaul, the ca ital and commercial center of the State, an the twin cities of Minneapolis and StAnthony, possessed of the greatest manufacturing facilities to be found in the entire Mississippi valley; and where already the hum of woolen and cot ton mills is heard, with the clatter of innumerable lumber mills. From these 3 great cities, now growing rapidly, and yet to spread over the intervening countig until their expanding populations mingle an merge in one great metro olis shall dese end to the tropical viille far below them, there teeming with a crowde, happy, and free population, all the great productions of the temperate regions, lumber and wool, wheat and cattle, the productions of the field and the manufactured goods of the mill. It is right and just that the navigation of the goat riVer should reach to the very foot of the lls and receive the cargoes of its floating pal aces from the very doors of its factories; and I trust the time is not far distant when even above the falls the Government can be induced to make an appropriation sufficient to deepen and improve the river up to the falls above StCloud. We owe it to the West that, where nature has done so much toward the construction of a mighty highway, no niggardly policy should govern us in relieving it of any partial imediments to navigation. Mr. ELIOT. As this amendment proposes simply a survey, without any additional riation apfpro I do not object. The Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. VANHoax] has an amendment of a similar character, which I am will in shall be adopted. Mr. VANHO tN, of NewYork. My amendment is to add, “ of the harbor and the mouth of the 18 Mile creek, at Olcott, NewYork.”