Mr. CONNESS. If the Senator had been informed he would have known that the bill had been already read in the Senate, and has been postponed now for nearly 2 weeks. It is not as large a bill as the Senator imagines, but it is of great consequence to us. I hope the Senate will consider it now, for there is no opportunity to consider such business unless it be during the morning hour. The motion of Mr. STEwART was agreed to, and the Senate, as in ComWhole, resumed the consideration of the bill (S.No.461) to aid in the construction of the SanFrancisco Central Pacific railroad. The bill, after having been considered here tofore, was recommitted to the ComPubLands, and reported with an amendment to strike out all of the original bill after the enacting clause, and insert the following: That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to fornia, the State of Cali in trust for the SanFrancisco Central Pacific Railroad Company, or for the California Pacific Railroad Company, corporationsexisting under the laws of the State of California, to inafter named, and for the sucoccnesstrsuocrtsathnedraosasdighnesroef: that one of said companiesas shall have 1st conn plied with the terms of plete this act, and shall 1st comsuchroad, for the construction of a the city of Sacramento, or Marysville, railroad from or from both Yoof sloa, did points, through the countiesof Yuba, Sutter and Solano, to a point at or near the City of Benicia or Vallejo, in the last namedeounty, in State; said and the right is herebygiven to that one of said corporationsas shall 1st complywith the terms of this act to take from the public lands hereby ranted adjacent to the line of such railroad majerial or the coustruction thereof; said right of way is granted to such railroad to the extent of 100 feet in width on eachside of the center of such road where it may pass over the public lands; alsoall necessary groundsfor station buildings, depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn tables, and water stations, not exceeding 5 acres in any continuous ten miles of said line. Sec. 2. Abife:, That therebe, and is hereby, granted to the State of California, to aid in the construction of that one of the above luentioned railroads as shall be 1st completedaccording to the terms of this act, and to securethe safe and speedy transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war, and public storesover the route of said line of way, every alternate section rail: of public land designated by odd numbers, to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, wherever in the line thereof the U.S. have full title thereto, respectively: but in case it shall appear that the U.S. have, when the line or route of said road is definitely located, as hereinafter provided, sold any section or any part thereof, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of preemption, homesteadsettlement, or private right, other hasattached, or that the same has been reservedby the U.S., then it shall be lawful, within 2 years thereafter, for any agentor agents, to be appointed by the Governor of said State, to select, subject to the approval of the Secyinterior, the fromthelands of the U.S. (to which no right hasattached, and not being within the limits of any reservation as aforesaid)nearest to of sectionsabovespecified, somuchland the tiers in alternate sections, or parts of sections, as shall be equal to such lands as have been, sold, reserved, or Fo otherwise apor to which the right of preemption or homesteadsettlement shall have, at the time of the location of said road attached, as aforesaid, which lands shall, when said, road shall be completed as herein provided, be held and disposed of by the State of videeadl, ifornia for the use and purpose aforesaid: ProThat the lands to be so located shall in no casebe further than 25 miles from the line of said road: Provided, further, That the lands hereby granted shall be exclusively applied toward the cost of the construction of saidrailroad, for andon account of title whthicehrethtoesshaaidll lraenmdasinare herebygranted, and the in the U.S. until said road shall be fully completed, and thesame shall beapplied to no other purposewhatsoever: Provid further. That any and all lands heretofore reserv to the U.S. by any act of Congress, or granted., appropriated, or set apart for, or promised to any other, railroad company, or and all landscontaining gold, fsoirlvaenr, yoroctihnenrabar, an all town and village lots are hereby reserved from the operations of this act, except so far as it may be found necessary to locate, the route of through said road such reserved lands, in which casethe right of way only to the extent of shall begranted, subject 100 feet, wide to the approval of the POTUS SEc. 3. Abife: That whenever the surveyor general of the U.S. for the State of California shall 1st certify to the SecyInterior that such railroad is completedfrom Sacra mento city or Marysville to Benigia or Vallejo, in a goodand substantial manner, and in all ects as required by this act, it shall be the duty of the SecyInterior to transfer to the Governor of said State all lands grantedas aforesaid. Soc., 4. Abife:, That the said railroad shall be constructed in a substantial and work mvearntsli, kebrmidagnense, rv, wiaidthucatlsl, tchreosnseincgess, saturyrdnroauintss, cul " and watering places, and all other appurtenances. including furniture and rolling stock, equal in all respects to railroads of the 1st classwhen prepared for business; the gauge to be the same as that of the Central Pacific railroad. Sec. 5. Abife:, That as soon as the lines of said road shall be surveyed and located the Governor of said State shall cause a map of the location to befiled with the secyInterior, who thereupon shall cause lands, not already, surveyed, within 20 miles of the line oftion, said loca to be surveyed, and the odd sections and parts of sections not occupied by homesteadsettlements, or otherwise hereinafter excepted, to be setapart for the purposescontemplatedby this act. And the seetions and parts of sections of land which by said grant shall remain the afore in the U.S. within ten miles on eachside of said road shall not, before the 4th of July, 1872, be sold for lessthan double the "goof public lands when sold. Sec. 6. Abife:, That each and every grant, right, and privilege herein are so made and given to upon andsubjescatid State for the purpose aforesaid. to the following conditions, namely: that the said company shall commencethe work on said road within 6 months from the approval of this act by the President, and shall complete the road from Sacramentocity to Benicia qr Vallejo within 3 yearsthereafter, and the road from Marysville onicle or Vallejo on or beforethe4thday of July. i i. Sec. 7. Abife:, That in case either of said companies shall elect, and file such election with the SecyStatefor the State of California, within 6 monthsfrom the passage of this act, to the effectthatsaid company will Qnlyconnectby railroad the said city of Benicia or Vallejo with the main road at a distance not exceeding 12 miles from the city of Benicia, and abandon the construction of the balance of the aforesaid road, then and in that event the company so electing shall, subject to all the conditions and provisions aforesaid, be entitled to the benefit of one quarter of the grant o: made, and in easethe said election shall not be fil as herein required, and the said connection shall not be completed as in this act provided, the whole of the herebygranted lands shall, when said whole line is completed as aforesaid, beheld by saidState for the benefit and use of the company complying with the terms of this act. heSreebe.y8g.ra Abife: That the lands to said State, mentionedasaforesaid, shall be conveyed and transferred to said company, apsurthpeos Legislature ido.f said State may provide fo r the