REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON THE BILL TO FACILITATE COMMERCIAL, POSTAL,
AND MILITARY COMMUNICATION IN THE SEVERAL STATES, MAY 29, 1866.
A measure relating to inter-State intercourse, especially
by railway, which had been considered by a former Congress,
reappeared in the present Congress. The bill of Mr. Sumner,
“to facilitate commercial, postal, and military communication
among the several States,”[33] was introduced into the House
of Representatives and adopted, with a proviso touching
stipulations between the United States and any railway company.
In the Senate it was considered from time to time.
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May 29th, the following additional proviso, moved by Mr. Clark,
of New Hampshire, was adopted,--Yeas 24, Nays 15:--
“Nor shall it be construed to authorize any railroad
company to build any new road or connection with any other
road, without authority from the State in which said
railroad or connection may be proposed.”