Mr. SUMNER. I agree with the Senfrom Pennsylvania that the measure before us is an important measure. Whether it is so transcendently important as he depicts I do not venture to say. But, sir, I believe it is a beneficent measure, and it is important from its very beneficence. The bill as orinall presented was complete and simple. thin that met the idea which has been so ably presented by the Senfrom Ohio. Were the bill adopted in that form it would be truly beneficent. It would prevent any State from becomin a turnpike gate to the internal commerce of the country. No State, I insist, has a right to take toll on the internal commerce of this out Republic, and it belongs to the U.S., under the Constitution, to regulate that internal commerce. It was in the exercise of that power, under the Constitution, and also of other powers, as, for instance, the power toregulate the postoffice, and also the military power, that this bill was conceived. I say, sir, in every respect it is a beneficent It has been today ably and conclu On other occasions I have at length considered it. I feel now that there is no occasion forany further elaborate discussion. I regret, sir, with the Senfrom Ohio, that the amendment of the Senfrom NewHampshire has been fastened upon it. I wish it were in our power now to get that amendment off and restore athe bill to its original force and virtue. But even with that amendment, allow me to say, the bill isbetter than nothing. It does something. It goes forth and does battle with that monopoly in at least one State of the Union which was in view when the bill was 1st presented. It is also a precedent for the future action of Congress, an it will open the wayto all that the Senfrom Ohio so earnestly desires. I shall be glad hereafter to act with him in carrying out the oriinal purposes of this bill, so that no State shall be able to set itselfup in the way of the internal commerce of the country. But considering that the amendment has already been made, that it has been attached to the bill, that we have now passed the stage when it would be advisable to open the discussion of that amendment again, I hope that the Senatewill proceed to the final passage of the bill. I have said that though shorn of much of its virtue iti is better than nothing; it will do much good. It is even in its present form essentially a beneficent mea ure. Therefore I hope that it will be adopted.