Mr. STEWART. This veryworth individual, General Dix, whom I do not wish to question particularly, pleads for vested rights. He admits that he has got his mortgage. His company for 0t vested rights in 1864. The Central Pacific Railroad ompany had spent more money on the western end thanall that has been spent yet upon the eastern end; they had in the mountains 50 miles of road already completed; and yet his agents, or whoever they were, interpolated into the law of 1864 a restriction on that company that had spent its money under the faith that it might go as far east as its enterprise could leadfiie not. having stuck a spade in the Omaha branch or the main stem either, not having done a thing toward building the may Through the means of that conference committee, as detailed by the Senfrom California, he or his agents attempted to put a barrier on the western end. He for got vested rights at that time; and now when we want to get rid of that iniquitous legislation we get a long lecture from that very honorable and that very high toned gentleman. When he talks about mortgaging the whole line to foreign capitalists, he forgets that the country has a vested right to have this road built from both ends. When he raises himself about his constructing 120 miles in 4 years, he forgets that he did not commence when the law allowed him to commence; he forgets that after he had Omaha selected, after he had quarreled over that a long time and finally got it designated, he wanted to make an ox bow and spent a year in getting an exbow down the river to accommodate some other point, making 9 miles in 23 additional; waiting nearly a year for its comletion. He forgets that it was through his instrumentality or that of his company that they did not commence earlier. He forgets, when he talks about the length of the read he is building, that he is on the plains and this other company is in the mountains. All we ask is simplejnsticc, and we ask it at' the hands of the Senate; we ask itat the hands of General Dix if he has control of this matter. We ask that we shall have a chance. We do not ask it for any particular company, but we ask it in the name of the nation, that each end shall be built as fast as possible, that no man shall put an obstruction in it, and that no man shall claim to own the road or the right to mortga e it. That is the way the road will be built speedily. All I have stated is proved in that letter and more, and it is the pretenses in that letter it is the maps they present, it is the claim that the are going on the western end to prevent its icing built, that we protest against.