Mr. FESSENDEN. Onridea was that when we did move we ought to go to 3rd street on the west, to the depot building on the north, and as far on the south. We thought that on the west front we should go to 3rd street just as far as our public grounds extend on the one side of Pennsylvanine venue. Whether that will ever be done or not I do notkuow; but certainly the grounds should be extended some what on the west front, and if we are to extend them on that front of the Capitol it would be very unwise for us to embarrass ourselves with a permission given by law to a railroad company to establish themselves there, because we should be troubled with claims for damages and things of that sort, and it would be said that we were interfering with rights heretofore granted, and claims would be urged upon congress and of one kind and another. My own idea has been always that the cars ought to cross above instead of going around where they do. They ought to cross the river above instead of running on a bridge alongside the Long bridge. I think so still. It would be somewhat more exensive to them undoubt edly; but it would ea great deal more convenient for the public. They would be more out of the way and they would leave the lower part of the city and the principal avenues undisturbed. To do that they would have to o a little further round, and therefore it won d cost them a little more; and I have always found in my excrience in regard to railroad bills that when the interests of a railroad came in collision with the interests of the public before legislative bodies the interests of the public always have to give way. It is so inva riably. It has been always found that they could not stand against the interests of a railroad company, for some mysterious reason or other that I never could exactly comprehend, even if I could see how the thing was brought about. Now, I have an objection to their running a steam engine across their bridge right along side of the Long bridge. If the Long bridge is to stand, there must always be a great deal oftravel over it by carriages of all descriptions, and a great man horsos to and fro; and as the country across the river settles still more the travel will increase; and to hove an engine come steamin along directly by the side of that bridge, wrth horses and carriages on the bridge as they often are very thick, will, in my apprehension, lead to a great many very serious accidents. I always objected to it on that account. I state these things with regard to this proposition to give by law the right to pass here by the Ca itod. I am oppos to it utterly; but as to the other matter of crossing the bridge, I do not take so much interest in, as I do not risk to own neck down there.