Mr. INGERSOLL. In order to fully understand the effect of the amendment of the Gentfrom Maryland [Mr. MCCULLOUGH] I will read a portion of the section: That the said company is hereby authorized and empoweredto survey. locate, and lay out and construct a canal and sewer betweent he Anncostiuriver, commonlyknown as the Eustern branch.from a point thereon near its junction with the Potomac river, to a point on the old canal nearVirginia avenue, which passes through the city of Washin ton: thence in, y. along and throughsaid old cann, to the western corporate limits of said city of Washington; and thence to the Chesapeakeand Ohio canal at itster minus at Georgetown, in the DistCol. The said canal and sewer.whenconstructed, shall constitute and roman a do ository and due! for the sewer agefrom the city of ashiu ton and from the property of the U.S. t crein and the proper corporateauthorities of the city OIVBSIHDRIODshall always have unrestricted and full powertodeterminc where the sewersof said city Ellllll connectwith the said canal and sewer, and the manner in which said connection shall bemade, soas the mnunerof making the connection shall not injure or impair the bank O said canal and sewerwhere the connection shall be made. Now, the words proposed to be stricken out simply throw somelprotection around this canal and sewer by providing that The manner of making the connection shall not iniiure or impair the ban of said canal and sewer where the connectionshall be made. Now, it seems to me that it is but just. to the corporation that the city of Washington shall not be allowed to make the connection of its lateral sewers with this main sewer in such a manner as to destroy the banks of the canal, because the connection can be made in such a way as not to interfere with the canal in the least. The bill, as it stands, simply provides that the city shall have the unrestricted use of the canal for sewer purposes, making connections when and where it pleases, but in such a manner as not to injure or destroy the banks of the canal. This restriction upon the manner of making the connection tie Gentfrom Marylan desires to strike out. I object to such an amendment, and I hope it will not be adopted. I ask the previous question on the amendment.