Mr. TRUHBULL. We will take it every way. We will avail ourselves of every avenue to the ocean. That is who the people of my State and the people of the State of Iowawant. It is to open other avenues, increase the facilities and cheapen the expense of transportation. That is what we are after. We want to cheapen the expense, so that the state of thin s spoken of by the Senfrom.Ohio [Mr. W ADE] the other dav hn extreme case, which has very seldom occurred where corn was burnt for fuel, will not arise again. A wrong impression goes out to the country and to the world by these statements about burning corn for fuel. such a case may have occurred, a solitary case; but, sir, my State is the greatest corn growing State in the Union, and never sawafire made of corn. I have never seen corn used for fuel, although I doubt not there may have been, under some peculiar circumstances when there was inconvenience, perhaps, in procuring fire wood, an instance where corn may have been used in that way. In all my residence in the State and acquaintance in it, however, I never knew or had brought to my knowledge a case of the kind. But, sir, I have seen corn sold out of the wagon in Illinois and delivered at the stable at eight. cents a bushel; and during the last season in many portions of my State it has sold for 15 cents a bushel. Now, sir, we are interested, and deeply interested, in multiplying these ways to the ocean. We think it will aid us to some extent to have a canal around the falls of Niagara. It is a great national work. It is at open the ground of the authority of the federal Governmentto make an improvement which is national. Even John C. Calhoun, the strictest of the construc tiouists of the South, admitted, at a convention held on the Mississippi river at Memphis some years ago, that the A ississippi river was an inland spa, and that the Federal Government had authority to improve it because it was a great inland sea. It is no more a rent inland sea than the great lakes are; an the 100s of millions of commerce that pass through these lakes and seek an outlet to the ocean should have every facility atforded that the Government can give for cheap transportation. Now, sir, I trust that we shall not. postpone this measure. It is one in which my constituents take a great interest. It involves no im mediate di ain upon the Treasury. Not a dol lot is to be called for, be it remembered, until this company shall have expended $2,000,000, and then not a dollar until the company shall expend 3 dollars for every 2 which it borrows of the Government. Under these circumstances I trust that the Senate will consent at least to let as perfect this bill, and when perfected I ho c it will consent to pass it.