Mr. WASHB RN hter.], of Illinois. I wish my friendfrom Pennsylvania would follow my teachings a little oftener. [Laughter.] If he did he would be upon much safer ground than that upon which reis treading now. Sir, I say it is unsafe ground. We have not a moral right to incurt is liability of $60,000,000 for the benefit of a private corporation. As I have said, it is s rocking to think that such a measure as this can ass. Now, I think I have shown, in regard to the liability which it is proposed to assume in this bill, that that amount as got to be paid, and paid by the Government of the U.S. It is so much added to our national debt. It is nearly 3 quarters of100 million “atone fell swoop, ” and the bill involving this was brought in here to be put through at an evening session, when the galleries were filled with spectators and lobby members lookin down upon us, when our chandeliers were rilliantly lighted, and we were sitting here in our cushioned chairs voting away the peoples money with magnificent indifference. There was no report accom anying the bill. M friendfrom Iowa [Mr. men] did not conese end to put in a report to tell us anything about this measure. To, not a single wor. He simply reported a naked hill, and he would have proposed, I presume, that the discussion should lie limited to 3 minutes to each man, and then put the bill through under the previous question. Now, sir, I do not believe that in any other country but this such legislation would ever be tolerated for a moment; and I do not believe the people of another country would tolerate men who would thus vote away their money without being duly and fully advised concerning the measure. Sir, the prospect is encouraging. Already, inspired the prospective success of this scheme, and by the prospect of money running so freely out of the public Treas, ury, some enterprising person has laid upon our desks today a proposition for a subsidy to ocean mail steamers and ocean mail routes. Abundant arguments can amdoubtedly be adduced why we should grant 2, 3, 5, or ten millions a year as subsidy to these ocean mail routes.