It is no great burden. it involves little immediate outlay. and the expenditure from year to year for the twenty years will never be felt by the American people. But I do not. looking into the future. expect that as a business enterprise the matter will stop here. Almost as a business necessity. the projectors of this plan will be comnelled to go farther and to lay the line from the Hawaiian Islands to Japan or some point on the Asiatic coast. We shall not be compelled. and perhaps not called upon. to aid in that work. but when that additional line shall be laid. Mr.