Mr. BINGHAM. Only a word further. I repeat, the passage of this bill secures the construction ot the road by saying to European capitalists, this great nation, oppressed as it is with a public debt of $3,000,000 JJUU. considers this stock and company a perfect security against any embarrassment to its Treasury, a perfect security that not another cent of burden will be laid upon this people by reason of the loan of the nations credit. That is the position I assume here today. I wish to place it on record, that in my judgment the provisions of this bill, if passed, will never lay one cent of burden upon any citizen of the Republic. It cannot in the nature of things, unless a railroad like that pointing to the gold regions and commencing n on the shore of Lake Superior shall, by one ourth of its gross proceeds and the proceeds of 12,000 acres of land to every mile of it, fail to pay the interest upon 1/2 the cost of its construction and equipment. I beg leave to say further that this measure, if adopted, instead of increasing the burdens of the people, will diminish them. The adoption of this measure secures the construction of this road at a very early day to such an exnent as, I believe, from the best information I have, will unite the head of navigation on the Missouri river with the head of navigation on the Columbia river, so that within the period of 2 years after the adoption of this bill we shall have through communication by rail and water from the Pacific to the At lantic ocean. The survey reveals the fact that the distance between the navigable waters of the Missouriand Columbia is not more than 500 miles; a remarkable revelation, indicating that God, in His providence, has so ordered it that this grand country, looking out upon Asia from the western slope of the Rocky mountains, and looking out upon Europe from the eastern slope, is to be one country, now and forever, one and inseparable. I think it is the duty of statesmen to pass this bill if the effect of the measure will be to draw to the construction of this road the capitalists of the world, who are looking with eager eyes to our gold regions, and thus reduce the burdens of the people by the increase of the nntions wealth and the development of our rent resources. It is certainly the 1st duty ofzstatesmen, to whom the people have committed the truQ of legislnting for the General welfare, so to shape their legislation as to develop all the resources of this country, and thereby make this youngest born of the nations the producer and the carrier for the civilized world; to enable it, in hort to lay its hand on the uhcounted treasures of your vast western domain and the immense commerce of the great East, and make itself the carrier of the trade of all Europe, with China and the Indies, by the shortest possible routaupon this planet. I now yield 20 minutes of the remainder of my time to the Gentfrom NewJersey, [Mr. ROGERS.]