Mr. SHERMAN. Ifthis amendment should be attached in the Senate, I have no doubt it will defeat the hill, beeauseI think it is certain that if the HoRep are determined on anything it is that they will not grant any additional money aid to railroads. assented to the amendment proposed in be half of the Pacific railroad, eastern division, because it gave them a route which I thought, from the information we had before us, would be better, and it would involve no exease to the Government, while it would probab y create a rival competition between 2 lines as to which would reach the neighborhood of Den ver 1st. It was manifestl for the interest of the Government to allow t cm to take the best route, one which would enable them to make ll the most progress westward. Since that time an amendment has been added to the bill in behalf of the California or Pacific division of the road, to'which I have no objection; but if this is now added, it will undoubtedly defeat the bill. It seems to me that if the Senfrom Kansas desires to see this bill pass, he ought not to add this provision. This is the 3rd prong of the Pacific railroad. I think a large majority of the Senate is now convinced that we ought never to have agreed to make more than one line of Pacific railroadfhut on account of the confiictin interests when the law passed we authorized 4 lines, one to start from ioux Cit, one from Omaha, one from St.‘ Joseph, an another from Leavenworth with a short branch, making a many pronged railroad, and we have given grants of money to all these lines. I doubt very much whether the Sioux City branch will ever be built. If it is built at all, it will probably be built to Omaha. Another thing to be considered is, that Kansas is a State, and will receive more money from the U.S. than has ever been given by the U.S. Government to all the States together. Kansas is the cal State in which the Government of the U.S. has ever undertaken to build railroads. All the other States have built their own systems of railroads without any other aid from the national Government except land grants and ordinary facilities, and the Government has been. compensated for its land grants by the increased value given to the remaining lands.