Mr. SUMNER. I proposed simpl to call attention to the point; I do not inten to pass upon it myself; only I must say that on the face of the proposition it does seem to me as if it was to mage this proceeding for a quar antine a military transaction, as if it was to a certain extent to continue military power for this purpose. Icanuotsa thatI have scrules on that point; but still am not dispose to vote for such a propositiOn, at least without fully considering, and I desire that the chair man of the committee should consider whether it is expedient that this quarantine proceeding shall be placed under the direct charge, man a ement, and control of the military power, or whether it shall be placed where in times past it has been, with the Treasury Dept, which has, as I need not remind the Senate, the direction of the customhouse and of the revenue, and also, I may say, the direction of the revenue cutter which is the police power in our harbors. The question I ask is, whether the Dept which thus far has had charge of the police of our harbors, which controls the hospitals there, to say nothing of the customhouse should not be intrusted with control with reerence to the quarantine? Thus far it has had, exclusive control with reference to the quar antine. We are now, to a certain extent, to dispossess it and put the War Dept in the front. If Senators are diswosed to do so; if my honorable friend, the chairman of the committee, thinks, hfter having his attention called to it, that upon the whole it is advisable that the War Dept should be put in the front, and that toothers should but follow up in the rear, I am not going to raise any question, because I start with the idea that this bill must be made effective for the purpose. I believe the House bill cannot. be effective for the purpose; and therefore I am ready to accept the bill of the committee, if after having called attention to this point the committee feel that upon the whole it is advisable to proceed with the bill in its present form.