Mr. SHERMAN. The ComAg, to whom was referred the bill (H.R.No. 321) to amend an not entitled “An act to prevent the s read of foreign diseases among the cattle of the U.S., ” approve December 18, 1865, have directed me to report it back Without amendment, and I ask the consent of the Senate to put it upon its passage at once. I am told that it is necessa to pass it as soon as possible in order to cash e the SecyTreasury to carry out the former law. By unanimous consent the Senate, as in ComWhole, rocceded to consider the bill, which provides that the not entitled “An act to prevent the spread of foreign diseases moon the cattle of the U.S., ” approve December 18, 1865, shall be amended so as to read as follows:. That the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the U.S. ishereby prohibited: Provided, however That the operation of this act or any part thorco shall besuspended. asto any foreign country or countrics mr any partsofsuch country or countries.where over the SecyTreasury shall officiallyde termine, and give public notice thereof, that such importation Will not tend totheintroduction or spread of contagiousor infectiousdiseasesamong the cattle of the U.S.; and the SecyTreasury is herebyauthorized and empowered, and it shal] be his duty, to make all necessary orders and regulations to carry this law into etfect, or to suspend the someas therein provided and to send copies thereof to the propero carsin the U.S., and tosuch officers ora cuts of the U.S. in foreign countries as he shall judge necessary. SEC.2. Abife: That the POTUS. wheneverin htsiudment the importation of neat cattle and the hidose neat cattle may bemadewithout danger of the introduction or spread of contagions or infectious disease among the caule of the U.S. may, by proclamation declare the provisionsof this act to be in operative, and the same shall be afterward ine perative and of no oltcctfrom and after 30 days from the date of said proclamation. Ste. 3. Abife: That any person convicted of n.willful Violation of any of the provis lons of this act shall be punished by a fine not oxceed m 8500or imprisonment not exceedingone your, or y both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. I