Mr. TRUMBULL. I trust that this JtResolution is not to pass. It seems to me a very singular species of legislation. We have at this session alreadv passed through both Houses of Congress alaw which has received the approval of the Executive, appointing 3 persons to codify and revise the laws of the U.S.; and now you are proceeding to do it by piecemeal in this way. The very object of our commission, which will cost the Government probably $50,000, is thwarted by a.proposition now to have the laws revised by Isome of the clerks in the Revenue Bureau, for suppose they are to make this revision. I trust such a proposition as this is not to pass. This work ought to be done under the super vision of the commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. to revise and codify the laws generally. If this portion can be got into shape at an earlier day so much the better. If labor has already been bestowed upon it, these commissioners will have the benefit of that labor. They will have authority to go on and make a report upon this branch of the laws before reporting the general revision of all the laws. It seems to me that this provision is incongru ous with what we have a ready done, and such a proposition ought not to pass, and I trust it w: l not pass. If Senators had considered it, and what we have already done, it strikes me they would not now consent to a proposition of this kind becominga law. Tomorrow some one else will propose that the military laws be revised they have been published in a separate volume under the supervision of some person already and the next day the naval aws, and the next those relating to the courts. Thus we shall have no harmony, no simplicity, in the laws which are to be revised and consol idated, aswe trust so that everybwly can understand them. These laws will have more or less bearin on other statutes. Has the Senfrom assachusetts, as I understand he is in favor of this measure, reflected that many of these laws relating to customs are mixed up with other statutes and have an important bearin on them?, Mr. RESWELL. They must be codified, nevertheless.