Mr. NYE. It came from the East. By what particular route it came I do not now remember; but it. came here, as I well remember. It. seems to me that the Navy of this nation, if thenecessities of the occasion demand it, could be no better employed in any way than in protecting the lives of our people. It is the duty of this nation to put into the hands of the properauthorities all the means that it possesses to shield and ward of? this terrible disease and malady with which we are threatened. The Senfrom Iowa inquired from the Senfrom Miehi n ifhe would send the Michigan on Lake Erie to Detroit upon police duty? The Senfrom Michigan did not answer, but I will assume to answer it for him. lftho irotcction of the lives of the inhabitants of etroit require it, send it by all means. It is on Government business, and the greatest of all the business of Government is to protect the lives of its people. Sir, I am sorry to see this quibbling upon all thesequestions, without inquiring what certain ships shall do or what shall be done with them. I am not afraid to trust the man at.the head of the Navy Dept and clothe him with this discretion. f this estilence comes like the wind, as it came be ore, and the pest 710"“! of NewYork or of Portland are full, "Pd the people are dyin in the streetS, f9? 90d 5 Bake will not this nation have magnammity onoufill to give them a floating bulk to die upon? If it takes the spare Navy of the nation to give these people shelter and iprotection, a place to lie down and be buried rom, the inhumanity of this nation would be arraigned before the tribunals of the united world if it failed to apply it to that purpose. I do not think there is any danger of this power being abused. “Hulks” is the word used, and if the information before the Navy Dept is true, we have got plenty of hullrs on which it would hardly be safe even for cholera patients to be; [Iaughter;] butI trust they would be appropriated to that purpose, if no better quarters could be had; and therefore I, trust that this resolution will ass. I he of the chairman of the ComNavAffrs will rid himself of all his fears on this subject. The present able SecyNavy, watchful and vigilant as he is, and aided h the Senators counsel, will be at all times able to see that the Navy is not weakened to any extent that would ondan or it by letting such vessels as are not in use e used for this purpose.