Mr. MORRILL. I have just a word or 2 more to say of it, and then I shall be done. I have now touched the general subject. When the act of 1864, which got through this senate not exactly by misadventure, was proposed, I thought I saw in it what the Senate would not approve; but it was passed in the morning lionr without attracting much attention, on the idea that it was entirely ine ffensive. I do not think it would have arrested the at tention of anybody now but for this publication and for the amendments which are asked. When they had taken the incipient step and had got a Commissioner of Immigration appointed, the next thing was to eiilarfle his powers because it was n large subject; if this nation was going to deal in importing men and pay the expenses of the importation and bind them by contracts to pay the money and impound them until they do, it was a pretty large subject. It grew upon the minds of these parties; and those who were engaged in it you will see, when they came to consider it ouud that it was a thing that needed very much elab oration and very much of detail and very much of refinement, and involved a great manyprinciples that are not exactly in harmonywit the principles of our Government. It. called not only upon the Executive, but it called a n the judiciary and all the powers of the government to enforce it. This amended bill which came from the other House was framed to meet this necessity, to meet this demand set out here, and what do they propose? Why, sir, they pro'pose to establish in several of the Atlantic cities a commissioner of immigration, to open an office under the Government of the U.S., to have one commissioner and as many clerks as the case may be supposed to require. The present office in NewYorkis to be strength ened; one is to be 0 ened in Boston, I do not know but in Portlan, in NewOrleans, in Phil adelpliia, in SanFrancisco, and in some of the cities of the interior. In all these places agen cies or superintendcncies under the authority and direction of the U.S. are to be opened, upon whom are to be conferred powers similar to those now conferred upon the superintendent in NewYork. Contracts are to be made, and a wholesale business of importing labor under the authority of the U.S and under contracts sanctioned by these persons is to be carried on. The committee having condemned the general principle, of course condemned it in detail, and having settled that they would not recommend the general principle they rejected the details, and they would have reyected the bill perhaps, if for nothing but the expense. I will state the items of expense which illustrate, perhaps in some measure, what the tendency of this thing is and where it would go natur ally and where it would lend if the Government of the U.S. was once committed to it. It is now in its incipient stages, but the increased expense proposed by this Dept by the increase of the several agencies in these cities is $72,600, which the Government of the U.S. are expected to pay to aid in the importation of this foreign labor. By this bill the machinery is enlarged so that the increased expense will be $72, 600. I make no great account of that item of expense, but advert to it as showing how this thing grows upon us. In 1864 we authorized a Commissioner of Immigration to reside hero with a superintendent at NewYork. It was said to be an indifferent affair, and from that time down to the present wehave cooperated with a private corporation in the State of NewYork, making contracts, and now it comes before us in this shape. The committee to whom it was referred having given the fullest consideration to the subject, became satisfie that the whole scheme was not in harmony wi the principles of this Government, that it would not be at tended with beneficial results, and that not only the House bill which is an amendment to I the act of 1864, ought not to’pass, but that the whole system ought to be repudiated. They. therefore recommended that the bill should not pass, and provided for a repeal of the act of 1864.