Mr. TRUMBULL. I entered the motion to reconsider the passage of this resolution. It came from the ComJudiciary and was reported favorably by a majority of that committee. There was a difference of opinion in the committee, and I was of the minority opposed to the passage of the JtResolution. I thought it ought not to pass. It is a private claim which takes $25,000 out of the Treasury of the U.S., and, as I thought, without the shadow of a claim on the part of this canal company. The reason for entering the motion to reconsider was that the JtResolution passed without consideration in the Senate. I was not present at the time and I thought the attention of the Senate ought to be called to the facts of the case; and if it be possible to get its attention for a few minutes, I will try to state the case as I understand it, and then if the Senate think proper not to reconsider it of course the bill will stand as passed. The facts of the case, the precise particulars of them, are not in my mind at this moment, but I can state generally what they are. Some years ago the dates I shall not now be enabled to give, but they are immaterial the U.S. made a grant of land to the then Territory of Wisconsin for the purpose of making an jo. in that Territory. The Territory of Wisconsin turned the lands over to a company organized in that Territory. That company undertook to make the improvement. As is often the case, they failed; they did not make the improvement, but used up the lands and got into a controversy with the State of Wisconsin in regard to the accounts between this company and the State of Wisconsin, with which the Government of the U.S. had nothing to do any more than she had granted the lands to make the improvement on the condition that this improvement was to be made. Some few years ago the Government of the U.S. was applied to to settle this matter between this company and the State of Wisconsin; and against my opinion at the time the U.S. was brought in to make the settlement. The State of Wisconsin was to be charged for these lands at a sum not exceeding $1.25 an acre, I think.