Mr. MORRILL. answer I expected; it is all the answer that could be given; whether it is a reason or not I submit to the Senate. It is all that the utmost stretch ofingenuity could give. There is no possible reason for BSSOClXlUllfi either the War or the Navy Dept with it, except that you want to bring to bear upon the question the power of the Navy and of the Army. Now, is that so? So far as you desire to go upon the water to enforce aquarantine, if on iave a right to enforce it the SecyTreasury has a military power at his command always to enforce the revenue laws; and there is no more necessity, on that score, of associating the SecyNavy, I submit to the honorable Senator, to enforce a uarautine than there would be to enforce the laws preventing smuggling. The association is incongruous; and it is either from the fact that you desire to get a power that you are conse ious you have not under the authority to regulate commerce, or, I submit, that it is an association of a power not necessary; and so of the War Dept. This is strictly a commercial question, says the honorable Senator. I submit that it is not in any sense. In the 1st place, cholera is not the subject of commerce; and in the 2nd place, the immigrants are not the subject of commerce; they are the subjects of navigation, one of the incidents of commerce. They enter into that element, and not in any sense are they the subjects of traffic, which is the chief characteristic of commerce. They are simply an incident to commerce in the sense that navigation is an incident. to commerce; but when you come to consider the subject of the intro duction of immigrants into the country, they lose that character entirely. Now, l desire to call the attention of the honorable Senator to thisquestion in another aspect. I maintain that alsanitary regulations touching the health of the people of this country within the jurisdictional limits of the several statesnre matters of police regulation, using that term in its strict and legal sense. Anything of that kind is a olioe. regulation; it has to do simply with the ealth of the people and it belongs to the States exclusively; and there is not it single instance in the history of this country where the Government of the U.S. has attempted to trench upon it; but in numerous instances the courts have settled that the police regulations of the States are independent of the General Government and exclusively within the power of the States, and that under the power to regulate commerce the Government of the U.S. has no authority whatever to interfere with them. Now, what is uarantine?