Mr. CRAGIN. Mr. President, I did desire to make some remarks upon this bill; but the day is so oppressive here and the Senate so anxious to terminate the debate, that I will not attempt to detain the Senate but a very short time in any discussion. And sir, but for the extraordinary, as it seems to me, opposition to this bill, I would content myself with not saying anything whatever. The gentlemen who oppose this bill assume that the Government is topay $122,000,000 of interest on the stock guarantied to this road and never to receive a dollar back. That as sumption, in my judgment, is unreasonable and unwarranted by anything contained in this bill. If gentlemen will consult this bill and will make figures, the will find that at the end of ten years, when this read is to be constructed, the Government cannot possibl have advanced over about 19 milion do lars as interest, and in that time the land will have been sold topay those 19 million dollars. After the road is completed then 25%. of the net earnings are to be aid into the Treasury of the U.S. but the Senfrom Ohio tells us that the Government of the U.S. is to pay 122 millions. by, it will have advanced only 19 millions up to the day that this road is constructed and running; and then 25%. of the net earnings are to go into the Preasury of the U.S. Is there a sensible man in this body who believes that after that day the Government will advance one single dollar more than it receives from the net earnings? If there is, I much misap prehend the meaning of this bill. The gentleman says that the land grant to this road is sufficient to build it, and yet he says that this company offers no security to the Government for the contemplated aid. If the land grant is sufficient to build the road, half the land certainly is some security. I believe that the value of the lands granted to this road is sufficient to build the road, but they cannot now be made available, they cannot be sold. By this bill the company is to build 25 miles of road, put in its own money, and.tben the Government is to guaranty the stock of the road to a certain amount.