Mr. SCHENCR. No, sir, I cannot yield for that amendment. I have but a word to say in regard to my amendment. We are now about to charter, if this bill passes, a new street railway company in this District. It will be a sort of suburban railroad and may not be much affected by this amendment if it shall prevail; still, the amendment involves a principle which I should like to seeingrafted on this charter, as it ought to be on the charters of other coman les. This bill proposes to charter a railroad to commence at the end of 14th street, where the existing railway terminates, to pass around the city returning into it at some other point. Without regard, however, to the route of the road, I think the principle of my amendment is correct, that when this company undertake to be common carriers they should do in good faith that which their undertaking binds them to do. Now, to accept passengers in any numbers and hang them on leather straps or crowd them like sheep or pigs into one of their conveyances is not carrying out their undertaking to convey passengers comfortably and properly, which, by making themselves common carriers, they have undertaken to do. I believe I have said once before to the House that the most patient pass in the world is the American people, as it regards submission to the impositions practiced on them by these various companies and corporations. Abroad nothing of this kind is permitted. Matters are much better regulated there so far as the police arrangements connected with such things are concerned. There the seats in public conveyances are all numbered, and each passenger gets his seat and keeps it. He is not liable to be imposed upon by having others thrust upon him more than the conveyance can hold. He is there recognized as having somre rights. But here in this country and we need not go far to get an exemplification of the fact in an omnibus or railway car, as long as parties are to be picked up who are willing to be forced into a crowded car, which perhaps will steam with the perspiration engendered by this close packing, conductors feel themselves authorized to stop and take up such passengers; until it has passed into approverb that there is always room for one more in an omnibus or railway car. Gentlemen may reply that this is the fault of the passengers; that if they choose to submit to such impositions they are to be held to it. Sir, it is the fault of the company in not furnishing a sufficient number of conveyances; and then the passengers, rather than not go, submit to impositions and take up with such accommodations as they can get. Now, I want to guard them against such im. positions. We will have no difficulty from crowded railways or omnibus conveyances if the principle I have indicated shall be established. Let it once be understood that they cannot collect fare of those to whom they do not furnish accommodations, and they will take care, as a matter of interest, to furnish sufficient accommodations for their passengers. Where they have one car now they will i. 2 or 3 then if necessary. folk this l.itt.le"pro.vision, more than anyone thing else, the whole of this evil a simple provision that when this new company shall undertake to convey passengers for hire in their conveyances o shall provide proper accommodations, or else fail at their peril, because they will have no legal right to enforce and collect fare from such passengers.