Mr. HENDERSON. That remark was legitimate. but calling for the yeas&nays when a Senator is speakin is not legitimate. I am not complaining of the remark of the Senfrom Ohio. I desire to say that the railroad companies all over the country are guilty of thingsjustas bad as those complained of in the Baltimore and Ohio company. I was at Niagara some time ago. There isa road from Niagara up to the city of Buffalo. There ybu strike the Eric road. Now, at Niagara you can take a direct road over the NewYork Central to NewYork city; but if you want to take the NewYork Central up to Bulfalo, and there take the Eric, the NewYork Central has it so arranged that you get into Buffalo 5 or ten minutes after the train starts out on the Erie road. It does not matter how the Erie road arrange their trains, the NewYork Central having the line from Niapra falls, only 20 miles up to Buffalo, so arrange the coming in of their trains that you are bound to go on from Buffalo over the NewYork Central anyhow, or else lay over for ten or 12 hours there. That is as bad as any thiizf, r complained of in the Baltimore and Ohio roa. I know that the railroad companies are guilty of this thing all over the country. They undertake to force passengers and freight over their roads, and any advantage the can take of that sort they do. How far legislation ought to be indulged in in Congress in order to correct this evillI am not able to say. I will go with the Senfrom Nevada very far to correct it. I will go to the full extent of the legislative powers of Congress under the constitution and I am prepared any day to listen to an argument from him demonstrating that we have the power to do it, and I shall listen to it very favorably, because these evils ought. to be corrected. I think, too, that we should correct the evil which is comlained of in regard to the Baltimore and 0 io company. If they refuse to give this facility that is asked, it ought to be corrected; it is wrong; but in all other respects I tell the Senfrom Ne vada and every other Senator that the Balti more and Ohio road is complained of very unjustly. I have seen no disposition on their part to oppress the people or inflict any great wrong or injury upon them. I know nothing about their management further than the facts to which I have now alluded. Of course the Senator can defeat this measure, if he desires to do so, by calling the yeas and uays. I tell him now that perhaps this Washington and Alexandria Railroad company can build this tunnel. I do not want to take away from them the power to do it. I desire them to do it, because they moved 1st in this matter. The Baltimore and Ohio company do not want to do it. They do not want to make this expenditure, because they are called upon to make an expenditure imme diately of 7 or 8 million dollars for building a road from here to the Point of Rocks, and they have not the money to expend on this tunnel, and do not want to do it. fear very much that, even if we give this power to the Baltimore and Ohio company, they will not do it. Now, here is a difficulty to which I desire to call the attention of the Senator. In one of the amendments reported by the committee we give permission to this vashington and Alexandria Railroad Company to run their cars by steam across the streets of this city for 12 months longer. The time within which they were allowed to do it has now expired they have no further authority to do it; an we repose to extend the time. The Senate, in the former investigation of this matter, said that they would not extend the time unless the work was immediately commenced on this tunnel so as to avoid running over the public grounds, and that if they did not see a disposition to build it immediately they would with draw this privilege of running cars over the public grounds. Now, the Senate committee have given them this privilege for 12 months longer in another amendment which has been reported to this bill, and I hope that the senator, if he desires to call the yeas&nays, will call them upon the bill after we shall have the whole bill before us. We give this privilege for 12 months longer, and then say that unless within 12 months they shall show a disposition to build this tunnel, so that Congress within a year from now may know whether they will build a tunnel or not, we must close up the public grounds and prevent their passing over them. That seems to be the disposition of the Senate. I feel no anxiety about this matter; I feel no interest in it except to see a contin nous line between the North and the South; and I do hope m friend, under the circumstances will with raw his objections to the bill.