Mr. CRESWELL. I will turn my philan thropy in thatdirection and endeavor to benefit my own sex and make the ladies happy. Mr. President, I have only a few words more to so, and I think the interruption of the Senfrom Ohio perhaps gives mean opportunity to say them withi a little more pertinency. The State of Maryland has a right to call upon the West, whose works ofimprovement she hasaided to nurture by the mostliberal donationsof public lands, at least to abstain from any legislation which will prove inimical to her most important interests. As I stated just now and proved, Maryland has invested $36,000,000 of her own hard money in her works of internal improvement. Not one dollar for that purpose. so far as I am informed, has she ever received from the General Government. To the States of the West, Maryland has voted with a generous heart large portions of that great domain which she long ago relin?tiished to the Union for the common good. t has been my policy sinceI have been in Congress to respond cordially to all the claims of the West; Iani perfectly willing, if necessary, to give them a propersystem of internal improvements; that they shall have every acre of the public lands. I am willing to aid them to the all extent of the Government. We ask no assistance from the Government; we merely ask that the Government will not. subvert our own system and will not cause us to lose the immense amount of expenditure that we have already made for that purpose. We have already lost in our efforts to promote commerce between the other States of the Union and the internal commerce of Maryland one 10th of all the assessable property in the State. We have lost between 27 and 28 million dollars out of 280 millions; and if the scheme of which I believe this bill is the forerunner is now adopted, and the Congress of the U.S shall assume jurisdiction over all these railroad interest s, it will result not only in the destruction of the roads which have been made already, but utterly to destroy the prospects of the State in the future. Now, sir, what is the fact? In this country we are unable to build railroads by meant of the capital of each separate locality. The government does not purpose investing 1,000millions during the next ten years in railroads, as the States and the enterprise of individuals assisted by the States. have done in the lastten years. The oul security for all this money is found in the rights, franchises, and privileges conferred by State charters; and if Congress shall undertake by a new system of legislation to usurp the right of eminent domain over the States, and thereby make new grants of railroads and canals to subvert the grants of the States. it will utterly destroy that confidence which is necessary to enable the people of the U.S. to titer capital for the construction of any additional roads in the future. Ewelievp that this policy will not only be detriental, but actually destructive, of the great interests of my State and country.