Mr. GRIMES. They are attempting to find a route by which they can build their road upon the nearest and most practicable way from Sioux City to strike the Union Pacific railroad. That is what they are trying to do. The Senator has alluded to the fact that this road from Sioux City runs in an easterly direction. It runs in an easterly direction from the simple fact I think my colleague has been to Sioux City and knows the topography of that country that it is impossible to cross the missouririver at Sioux City. There is a rise of the bluff on the opposite side of several hundred feet, so that it is necessary for them to cut through the bluff below Sioux City, and run in a southeasterly direction for a few miles until they strike the bottom of the Missouririver. Perhaps it is not known to the Senfrom Michigan that the only place where the bluff comes to the Missouririver in the whole State of Iowa is at Sioux City. On the opposite side are what are known as the black hills, extending down several miles, through which it would be just as impossible to ever construct a.railroad that would be a paying road as it would be to construct one through the White mountains. But, Mr. President, it is not the purpose of the company that was incorporated under the laws of the Statevof Iowa to take any advantage of the Government. They desire to build the road upon the nearest and most practicable route; and in order to show that such is their sentiment, and to test the sense of the gentlemen who are so anxious to set aside the order designating this company, I propose to amend the bill of the Senfrom Michigan by strikingr out all after the enacting clause and inserting the following as a substitute: That the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad company. designated by the POTUSi tiites to construct the Sioux City branch of t8 Union Pacific railroad shall construct said branch upon the best, most direct and practicable route. subject to the approval of the POTUS and to be determined by him on actual survey without regard to the line csignuted upon the map placed on file by said companyin the dept of the Interior. t will be observed that the proposition I offer as a substitute for the bill advocated by the Senfrom Michigan is that, without any regard to the survey to which he has alluded and the map which he has presented to the Senate, this road shall be built upon the nearest and most practicable route, subject to the future approval of the POTUS, instead of leaving it as it now is, according to the position of the Senfrom Michigan, on the map which he has presented to us. We have, I believe, within a short time organized an engineer board, a kind of Pacific railroad Dept, at the head of which I think we have an engineer. These surveys will here after he referred to that officer and I am content that the compauy shall be required to build the road according to the plans that shall be is proved by the SecyInterior, and by his engineers and the POTUS