Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, I cannot vote for this bill. I shall vote to recommit it, if such a motion is made. I look forward to the time when there will be a Northern Pacific railroad and a Southern Pacific railroad in addition to the Union Pacific railroad already established; but I think this mone application made at this time is one that should not be granted. A little more than 2 years ago Congress made a ver liberal appropriation for the construction of the Union aci c railroad. The whole appropriution, if I recollect aright, was not far from $100,000,000. They also made appropriations to various roads in Kansas. In regard to those roads in Kansas, I think We have committed an error. I think it would have been better to have fixed the starting point and the point of termination for the Pacific railroad as one grand railroad, and to l that congress should have made appropriations, angi let all other competing lines run into the main trunk. But it is too late to correct that now, and we made as I have stated, this large appropriation. I remember very well that it was considered a great step for Congress to take. I remember very well the remarks made by the Senator now dead from Vermont, Judge Collamer, who was a member of the Pacific Railroad Committee, in which he expressed great fears that Congress was going too far. At a time a little subsequent to that we cre, ated another corporation and we made a grant to certain individuals for the Northern Pacific railroad, under the expectation, as has been stated by the Senfrom Ohio, that there would be no money required from the Government and therefore a very large appropriation of lands was made; I think 47 million acres. The persons to whom that grant was made were not able to succeed with it, and it finally fell into the hands of a gentleman of the State of Maine by the name of Perham, known as Gift Enterprise Perham. He was not able to go through with it; he was not able tocarry it on; and e disposed of it last winter to some gentlemen, I believe, for the sum of $50,000, and those gentlemen now come in and ask Congress to make an appropriation of about 100 million dollars. I am a little surprised at such an application. I think it is the most extraordinary application that was ever made to Congress, taking all the circumstancoainto consideration. The original grant of lands, 11811 by the Senfrom Ohio, was much larger than had" been given before to any railroad company, and that was given under the expectation, perhaps under the promise, that there would be no further application. I do not know that we can ever prevent these applications from being made, but I shall not be at all surprised if, for the very road we have granted this session, called the Smoky Hill road, we shall, at an early day, have an application for money. The Senfrom Michigan expressed his surprise that the Senfrom Ohio had opposed this bill. I, on the contrary, feel like expressin 1 my obligations to the Senfrom Ohio for toopposition that he has made to it. I hope, sir, that it will not be passed.