Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I suppose it is well known to the members on hot sides of this House that the oriinal bill brought into this House with regard to these railroad facilities was intended to apply only to the State of NewJersey. The purpose of the original bill was to incorporate 2 railroads in the State of NewJersey that were incor porated to do local business, and for certain specified purposes, to override their charters and connect their roads so as to do business between Philadelphia and NewYork. another road had been incor orated as far back as 1830 by the State of how Jersey, and by their act of incorporation a certain privilege was given to that road, to wit, that there should be no competition between those 2 cities until 1869. The charter of that road depended, so far as the payment of taxes was concerned, on its being continued in good faith, with the privileges granted to it, until 1869, when the charter will expire, or the special privileges granted to the company and not extended to other companies int c State will have expired. Now, if the House will let this matter rest until the time arrives when these 2 compa nies can connect according to law and do a through business, the special privileges granted by NewJersey as an inducement to have that rent railroad communication opened between hiladelphia and NewYork at a time when private capitalists would not invest money in it will be carried out to the letter, and nobody will be injured. The State of NewJersey receives a tax of $200,000 a year from that company; and if this bill is passed authorizing other roads to run in competition with that road it will de ive the State of over 200,000 dollars taxes, which the corporation is bound to pay to the State only on the condition that that exclusive privilege shall not be violated either by the General Government or the State Legislature until 1869. In order to obviate the objection that this is more local legislation for the purpose of inflieting injustice upon the State of NewJersey, this general bill has been got up; but it can have no application to any other State in the Union but TewJersey. There is no other State in the Union where railroads are attempting to connect themselves together in violation of their charters and of the decisions of the courts of the States that chartered them. 2 small corporations in NewJersey, the Raritan and Delaware Bay and the Camdeuand Atlantic Railroad Companies, are asking this legislution here in the form of a general law simplyto authorize them to doin the State of new ersey what the have no power to do under the authority which created them. If this measure is to be carried into effect here, congress will enter the domain of the State of ewJersey, and authorize corporations there to exercise functions which were not granted to them by the power which cre ated them: and therefore, as a citizen of that State, feeling a deep interest in the welfare of the State and of its citizens, without regard to, party, I stand here to protest against auYIegis iation which enters the jurisdiction of my State, and controls the power of the State in regard to its railroad facilities and communications. Sir, this measure proposes to violate the plighted faith of the State, and to interfere with a contract entered into by the State at a time when there was not one single railroad communication with the city of NewYork from my State. The people invested their money in the railroad line from Philadelphia to NewYork at n time when it was supposed that the money would be sunk; that the stock would not be worth tencents on the dollar.And now, when times have improved, and the company has made a few dollars, it is not right to undertake to interfere with them, inasmuch as the time will soon come when these privileges under their charter will expire.