Mr. ELIOT. In reply to the remarks which have been made by the Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. Li: Bhosn] I won d say that probably there has been no bill presented to the House during the session upon which more careful labor has been bestowed than upon the one now reported from the committee. The subject was carefully examined in the ComCommerce on the part of the House even before the bill had passed the other branch of conress. It was considered then because it was nown to be importantthat the bill should be put upon its passage or be brought before the House for its consideration at as early a moment as practicable. After the bill had passed the Senate it was, upon my motion, I believe, directed by the house to be.printed, and it has been upon the files of members ever since. Since that time it has been under examination in the ComCommerce, and I believe there is no provisionin it aboutwhich Iam not prepared to give information to the Gentfrom Ohio or any other member a on the floor of the House who may desire it. this a bill of some length, and unquestionably of a great deal of importance. It has been found very difiieult on our frontier during the last 2 years to prevent the system of smuggling which has been going on and increasing day by day. The customhouses are defrauded and the Government is cheated. The officers of the Government, wide awake as they may have been, have found themselves wholly unable to check the smuggling which has been continued there, so that it has been found imperatively necessary to have an examination of the laws on the statute book concerning smu gling, and to embody in the law provisions w nch, as it is believed, will success fully enable the oliicers of the Government to administer the laws and collect the revenue. Now, sir, if this bill should go to the ComWhole, it is perfectly well under stood that it would go to its grave. The Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. Ls Bl.0."D] probably does not intend any such fate for it as that. If there is any provision in the bill that does not meet his approval, [am prepared either to defend it or to abandon it.