Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, there is a disosition exhibited on the part of senators, think, to delay matters of great moment. They complain of the extreme heat and the condition of the climate. Well remove the sent of Government to Boston. That will correct that difficulty. On our tables and in committees are matters of the gravest importance, and this is one of the most grave import. This is not a measure that is to transpire in 1867 but at the present time. The gentlemen engaged in the enter rise are having their ships upon the sea. The enterprise has already commenced. There is no controversy that I know of between any interest at the SandwichIslands and the making of the trip by the north. I do not know of any condieting interests; but if there be any they are all accommodated by the amendment of the Senfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. WiLsos, ] which provides for communication with the SandwichIslands, which amendment I n prove. 500,000 dollars subsidy and $50,000 in addition is a small amount for this Government to expend every year. Twice that much to establish ourselves on the Pacific coast, which must be the greatest source of our moneyed wealth, would be not too much for the object in view. I do not believe in this policy of adjourning important questions because the thermometer stands at 98 degrees. We came here to transact the pu lie business, and I myself desire to see it transacted. I will not run away if the thermometer gets to be 115 degrees. I have seen worse than that. The measure is of the 1st importance. As I had occasion before to state, Russia and France and England are struggling for ascendency on the Pacific, and we are substantially doing nothing. They have been doing every thing by their diplomacy, by their appropriations, by their expenditure for the purpose of subsidizing communications. It is not worthwhile for us to be slow if being fast is right. I have always heard that the American people were a fast people. When we get to be a slow people we had better go and marry ourselves to the Chinese. I protest against the policy of postponing measures when there is no reason for it. There is no controvers about thi question among the friends oft9measure. The $50,000 suggested by the Senfrom Massachusetts as a subsidy for a SandwichIslands line answers the whole question and furnishes the communication. 50,000 dollars goes out of the pocket of the Government every 5 minutes and accomplishes no such result as is contemplated by this enterprise. I cannot see the wisdom of throwing off our shoulders the responsibility of action upon great qestious that involve policies which concern the general welfare an prosperity of the nation.