Mr. STEWART. There is just where the Senator is mistaken. In 1864you attempted to prevent us from coming in. The companies, i'cvions to that time, had the right to build as far as they could. The Union Pacific railroad was organized to run to the California State line, and, provided it did not ct there at the time the (Jentral Pacific we was built, the Central Pacific road was to come right on to the East, or ifthe Central Pacific railroad was not built when the Union Pacific road reached the California line, the latter could go clear on to the bay of SanFrancisco. Neither was limited in the extent to which it might go. In asmuch as the Sierra Nevada mountains were supposed to be a serious obstacle, it was presumed that the Central Pacific road would not get more than over the mountains by the time the Union Pacific road reached California, or if otherwise, it should have the right to go clear on. In 1864somebody manipulated, after the manner that has been stated, to cut oil”the right of the CentrafPacific road to come east. we do not object to the right of the Union Pacific road to go west. We want the compe tition. While I am on the floor I may be allowed to any further that General Dix’s character and no man's character is above the law; and when the law says he may mortgage only 100 miles in advance of construction, and when the Govcriiinent giveshim money enough to build the road, if he goes 1500 miles beyond the oint he has completed and attempts to get a icn upon the line that dis’tance 06', under the pretext of borrowing capital in foreign lands, with the view of proventing the road being builtfrom the western end, whether it be General Dix or General anybody else, he is violating the law, and the senate ought to watch him. I condemn the spirit manifested by this company, when they had not located the initial point on the eastern end, to obstruct the buildiu of the road from the western end and thus clay this great national work for years, under the pretext of encumbering it in foreign lands, when they did not need it to be encumbered at all, when the Government builds it for them almost entirely, when the company are going to have it built by the generos1ty of the Government and then own it themselves, and tax the people for its use, they beingthe special favorites of the government. When under such circumstances they attempt to impede the great highway of nations, I do not care whether it be general Dix or General anybodyelsc, my voice is against anybody wholays an obstruction in the way; and I say the maps that came into the Pacific Railroad Committee were intended as an obstruction, and their letters claiming that the Central Pacific Railroad Company from the west should not be allowed to come east further than 150 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains are an obstruction. It is not true that the Central Pacific Railroad Company cannot come from the western end. The worst part of it is near] constructed. They can pass Salt Lake and they can meet the Union Pacific railroad ver near the Rocky mountains, beca'use they bui d more railroad on the ground and not so much on paper.