Mr. HOWARD. I agree entirely with the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts in the object of this bill; but after reading the 1st section with some little care it strikes me that the language may be improved. As the section now reads, no offense will be committed if the representations made by the offender had been made directly to the negro, and the negro told that the object of his exportation was to have him sold as a slave, and they might therefore make perfectly true representations to the negro and induce him to leave the country for the purpose of being sold as a slave, and no offense would be committed. I suppose that was not the intention of the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts. The object of the bill is to prevpent.absolutely the exportation of this class of or of any persons for the purpose of having them sold as slaves or peons. Now, I would suggest, with great respect to the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts, that the language would be improved if he should strike out the words “false and fraudulent, ” and insert instead of them the word “any, ” and also in lines7, 8, and 9 to strike out the words “where such negro, mulatto, or other person would be liable to be sold as a peon, tsuodcea, ”lled, or otherwise reduced to virtual servitude and to insert in lieu of those words the words “and with intent to sell or cause to be sold such person as a peon or slave.” Then the clause would read as follows: That if any person shall, within the jurisdiction of the U.S., make any representations to any negro, mulatto, or other person for the purpose of inducing such negro, mulatto, or other person to emigrate to a foreign country, and with intent to sell or cause to be sold such person as a peon or slave, the person so offending shall be punished on conviction thereof by a fine, &c. I think that change would meet the case exactly; it strikes me that it would; but as it stands now the Senate will see at once that if false and fraudulent representations, or any representations, were made to a negro with a view to induce him to leave this country and to another countrywhere slavery did not exist and where he could not be treated as a slave, and if after he had reached that place he was then transported to some other place by the wrong doer and sold as a slave, the wrong doer would not be guilty of any crime under the bill as it is drawn. This, it strikes me, will make it more specific.