Mr. HENDERSON. I am not at all astonished at that. Mr. Garrett does not want to build this road if he can avoid it. The senator talks about the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. I have nothing in the world to do with that road; I am no attorney for it; but I want to get this work done; and if I can ersuade Mr. Garrett to undertake a work which will cost $1,000,000, and which will perhaps never be worth a cent to his company I do notknow at it will I will do it in order to get rid of tie steam cars on the streets of Washington city, and in order to get a continuous line by steam, from North to South, which I consider a matter of great importance. But Mr. Garrett is opposed to doing it at the expense of his company, and one "reason that he suggested was that our committee this winter has com. pelled him to go to work and build a railroad from here to the Point of Rocks, at a cost of 6 or 7 million dollars, when they have now ample rolling stock in the double track road from here to the Point of Rocks, by way of the Relay House. It is true that it will save 50 or 60 miles by going over a direct road, and the West clamored for it. My friendfrom Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN has mentioned this subject repeatedly, another Senators have spoken of it. They have clamored for a direct communication with the West; and by legislation this winter we have comelled the Baltimore and Ohio road to build that road; and it will not be worth 5 cents to them, because they have the rolling stock now to do all the business between here and the Point of Rocks. It takes perhaps 2 or 3 hours longer to go that way; but they have the capacityto do ten times the business that will be done from here to the West by a double track road between here and the Point of Rocks now. The fact is that to gratify the people of the West we have linposed on the Baltimore and Ohio road the exenditure of 7 or 8 million dollars. {do not appear here as the advocate of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; but I hear a great deal said against the road that is unjust and unfounded. I have traveled on almost every railroad line in this country, and I take this 0 portunity to say that I have traveled as cheap, as comfortably, and as safely on the Baltimore and Ohio road as upon any road that I ever traveled upon in this country. I am sure there is no line of road in this country upon which a passenger can travel cheaper than he does from here to the city of Wheeling. I undertake to say there is none over which he can travel to the city of NewYork cheaper, and I say further that there is no line of railroad, considering its length, upon which freight can be carried cheaper than on this road. know that fact. I do object to one thing that the Baltimore road is guilty of, and that is that they will not check baggage from here to any point in the West. They take the same advantage that other roads do, and compel you to recheck your baggage in order to compel you, when going to the West, to travel over their own road.