Mr. GRIMES. The argumentthat has been urged in favor of the passage of this JtResolution from the time that it was 1st introduced, a few days ago, has been, that it was access that renter facilities should be extends to the acitic Mail Steamship company in order to enable that company to compete with foreign companies; and we have ad some very learned and eloquent and able arguments upon the nccessity of this country maintaining her commercial supremacy. I judged from the remarks that were made by the Senfrom Massachusetts tlre other day, and by the Senfrom California, that we really'were in a bad way in that regard; that it might be possible that we should not benblo to maintain our present position among the commercial nations of the earth. But when I come to interrogate the Senfrom Nevada in regard to the rival opposition that it is said has been started against this steamship company since they entered into the contract by which they agreed to carry our mail to and from China, by the way of Japan and Honolulu, it turns out that he sawa notice in a California newspaper, which looks as sharply after the interests of California, as the newspapers of my State do after the commercial interests of the Mississippi valley, that the French government and the English Government werfiabout to put on 2 rival lines from SanFran cisco a city in one of our own States to China; and hence it was necessary that we should furnish additional facilities to this Pacific Mail Steamship Company in order to enable them to successfully compete with those French and English lines that are to ply between one of our own ports and one of the Chinese ports! Really, it struck me that that was an additional reason why we should require one of these lines at least to touch at the SandwichIslands. It does seem to me, and I submit that to the consideration of Senators who are here representing commercial interests and who seem to believe that it is only necessary to have communication with the SandwichIslands on one side it does seem to me that it is important to the commercial interests that we should have communication with the SandwichIslands from the west side as well as from the east. It does seem to me that if a whaler goes out from NewBedford to the SandwichIslands for the purpose of being filled up with bone and oil in the SandwichIslands that have been brought there from the Chinese seas, it may be important for that vessel to have communication by u steamer comin from the west as well as one coming from t ie cast; but it seems that the Senators from Massachusetts and gentlemen representing commercial cities do not entertain that opinion, and are willing to accept a proposition which will only require the steamships to connect with Honolulu on the east, allowing the steamship company to abandon its contract, which required it. to touch at Honolulu going both cast and west.