Mr. HENDERSO.Ihave no objection; I didnot put it there. In the amendment which I offered I made it obligatory upon the SecyTreasury. in carrying out these regulations, to employ officers already upon duty, and who are receiving their salaries. Is it possible that it will be necessary to pay them additional salaries? I think not. the Senator is altogether mistaken when he supposes that under this JtResolution any additional expenditure can be made. I cannot conceive of anything of the sort. The Senator asks, why, then is it necessary to make it obligatory upon these officers to observe the quarantine laws of the States? I agree with him as to the supremacy of the laws of Congress, so that if under an act of Congress a ship is authorized when it comes to the port of NewYork to discharge its freight immediately it can do it independent oft equur antinelaws of the State. Vhat is the meaning of this resolution? It is to make the officers of the Federal Government obey the State routine laws to put. it in the power of the crctary of the Treating to made it obligetory upon them to obey ose laws and not to disregard them. The Senfrom Wisconsin will recollect that there are laws, the revenue laws, which rmit vessels, when they arrive at a port of ii: U.S., within a certain time to land and discharge that freight in ware houses of the U.S. Sup )086that the law of the State of NewYork pr ibits a vessel from landing there on account of the fear of contagious diseases; there is a conllict of jurisdiction at once there is a conflict between the Federal law and the State law. N ow, suppose thut the collector of customs at NewYork, city, obeying the Federal law, should order a vessel up into the port of NewYork, and order it to discharge its freight and passengers there against the quarantine laws of the State of. Iew York, or of the city of NewYork. passed under State authority, the Senator will see at once that a.conflict of jurisdiction would arise. The law of 1799 provides for a case of that sort. The idea there was to give the power to the SecyTreasury to make the revenue collectors and all the officers in the discharge of Federal duties in the respective ports obey the quarantine laws of the States, and that is the only meaning of this resolution now. If gentlemen insist that there are some cities in the U.S. that have adopted no unrantiue regulations, and that it is necessary t t they should be adopted, an amendment may be added, but I do not think it is necessary. The ieople of Brooklyn, if cholera is to visit the U.S., will guard and tect themselves against its introduction tpierore just as efficiently as the people of NewYork. So will the pee lo of NewOrleans, the people of Richmond the people of Portland, the people of NewLondon, aridthe people of every other city. The 1st section of the act of 1799 is in these words: " That the quarantines and other restraints. which shall be required and established by the health laws of any State or pursuant thereto. respecting any vessels arriving in or bound to. any port or district thereof. whether from lforeign port or plaeo or from another district of the U.S., shall be duly observed by the collectors and all other officersof the revenue of the U.S. appointed and employed [or the several collection districts of such State respectively and by the masters nudlcrcwsof the several revenue cutters and by the military officerswho shall command in any fort or station upon the sea court.” suppose a military officer commanding there now should absolutely refuse to regard the oar amine laws of the respective States, ought there not to be some power vested in some officer of the Government to restrain and control those men and make them obey those quarantine regulations? "And all such officers of the U.S shall be and they horeb are, authorised and required faithfully to aid in to execution of such quarantine and health laws.uccording totheir respective power s and precincts and as they shall be directe. from tune to time. by the secyTreasury of the U.S. " So the Senator will see that this resolution now is in perfect accordance With the law of 1799. The 2nd section of that act provides: “ That when by the health lows of any State or by the regulations which shall bemadopursuanttherctn. any vesse larriving within ucollection district of such State shall be prohibited from comingto the crt of entry or delivery bylaw establishedfor such district. laanwds, it shall be required or permitted by such health that the cargo of such vessel shall or may be unladen at some other place within or near to such district. the collector authorized therein. after due report to him of the whole of such cargo, may grant ins especial warrant or permit for the unlading and discharge thereof under the care of the surveyor or of one or more inspectors. at. someother placewhere such health laws Will permit.” So the law now, instead of inflicting any expense upon the Government, only gives power to the SecyTreasury to order the offipers of the U.S. to conform to and assrst Ill, carrying out the laws that may be adopted in the respective States.