Mr. STEVENS. I cannot yield; I prefer to go on. These offers of gentlemen around me for a little longer time seem to be fair enough; and they are especially commended to my magnanimity when Iconsider the action of these gentlemen yesterday. From some accident, in consequence of mere debility and indisposition on my part, we had lost what was our right, and they had gained an unfair advantage. When we appealed to them to let this bill take its present position, so that it might be considered by the House, these very gentlemen, including the gentlemen from Massachusetts, [Mr. Dawson]g refused to consent to it, a thing I never before saw perpetrated upon any member of this House. And now those gentlemen ask us to be inagnanimous, and allow them to have some advantage which they have not and to which they are not entitled. Sir, as I have already said, and as has been stated by the Gentfrom Iowa, [Mr. Kas sox] this bill asks for nothing but what is fair and just; andI honestly believe all these rop positions for delay are intended merely to efeat the bill. I believe these efforts are not intended to secure the amendment and improvement of the bill, but to secure its final defeat; and I therefore feel no difficulty in taking the course I do. Sir, when a measure is before this House affecting the interests of the whole country, affecting the great thoroughfares through missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and all those States, and I hear gentlemen say that it does not go to Chicago in fact saying, “ If it does not go to Chicago I am opposed to it; but if iit does go there I am for it;” when I hear that style of argument I cannot understand what magnanimity those gentlemen can expect. It is a more question of interest, a mere gouging, like boys playing‘at marbles, in order to see which one shall get the advantage of the other, instead of the legislation of the congress of the U.S. for a rest nation. Vhen I see such sentiments as t iese acted upon, and gentlemen, honorable gentlemen, attempting to hold an advantage which was got by accident, as it was in this case, I cannot understand how it is that those offers have any other object than that which they attempted on yesterday, in my judgment, to carry out so unfairly. I therefore call the previous question on the bill.