Mr. CONNESS. Mr. President, I shall 1st address myself to the inquiry of the honorable Senfrom Nevada. He inquires, shall we not be subject to like acts if competition be created? do not mean to say anything to the contrary of the proosition that a noble man cannot do an ignobe act, and that an 1g uoble man cannot but by chance do a noble act; and therefore, whether we have one or more lines, if they are in the controlbf bad men, they will be badly controlled and d1rected; but, sir, the chances of the public, in all respects, for fair dealing, are increased by the establishment ofrival lines. The Senator need not be told that, for he very well understands it. I am not a little surprised that there should be any opposition, particularly from our coast, as we familiarly speak of it, to a bill which now proposes to offer all that the national authority ca give in the way of inducement for the establfihment of rival lines. The great difficulty that the Pacific coast labors under constantly, notwithstanding its many great natural l advantages, is, that it is on the other side of a l great continent, while the Government is principally on this side, and therefore the wants of that distant country can never be known or understood fully here. This great means of intercommunication, instantaneous in its charactor, is provided; but unfortunately, by the love of gain established as a prinnciple in the human mind, it consolidates itself and becomes a monopoly. Today we are asked to vote with the Senfrom Ohio to olfer inducements for liberalizing this great agency and inducin the establishment of rival lines. I do not think there. can be any objection urged successfully against the project. The bill is no longer an act to authorize the National Telegraph Company to do anything. Its title must necessarily e changed after the adoption of the pending amendment, and it must be called an act to grant to all parties who may choose to organize themselves under the laws of the States of the Union the right to build telegraph lines over the post roads of the U.S. I hope, sir, that we shall have such an act.