REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON AN AMENDMENT TO THE CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL,
JULY 25, 1866.
July 25th, the Senate having under consideration the bill
making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the
Government, Mr. Conness, of California, moved the following
amendment:--
“To provide for a survey of the Isthmus of Darien, under
the direction of the War Department, with a view to the
construction of a ship-canal, in accordance with the report
of the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory to the Navy
Department, $40,000.”