Mr. CRESWELL. I can only sayin regard to that, that the SecyTreasury seems to feel the deepest interest in the passage of this resolution; and if it be passed and these laws be codified, the will be completed as that they will not only e of service to the Dept, but of service to those gentlemen who may be appointed to codify all the laws. It is proposed that the laws applicable to the collection of duties and to the management of the revenues generally shall be prepared by certain officers of the Dept, under the direction of one member of the Senate and one member of the HoRep, before the meeting of the next session of congress, that a report shall then be had, and action finally taken upon it. If the gentlemen hereafter to be designated by the President shall undertake to codify all the laws of the U.S., it is more than probable that it will be 2 or 3 years before they will be able to present such a report as will be ao cepted by Congress, and then it may be that a long delay will follow. This work seems to be absolutely necessary for the successful working of the Treasury Dept, and I will read to the Senate what the SecyTreasur himself says on this subject. Speak in of the complication of laws which has resulted, he says that in regard to the assessment and collection of uties alone based upon the act of March 2, 1799, up to the year 1845, there had been passed at least 125 different laws, and since that time almost as many more. Besides that, there are other classes of laws which are necessary for the public convenience, one relating to the foreign and coasting trade and another relating to special provisions necessary to meet the necessities of commerce on the lakes and river: for the northeastern, northern, and northwestern frontiers, and in regard to them the SecyTreasury says: The result is an immensecomplication in the details of the various provisions relating to the collecting of the revenue and the carrying on of the and foreign trades: and an intricate sys tem of legislation on this entire subject has grown up, in which statute refers to statute and amendment to amendmenton so many points, that the law governing a specific case is difficulty in many instanceswith discovered. This is a source of rave embarrassment to officers of the customsw ose position requires prompt action and a clear application of the law to facts as they arise. This Dept endeavors to renderthe laws intelligible by the issue of circulars and regulations theseare, however.but a partial remedyfor the evi and go but a short way toward supplying the want of a uniform and consistent code, With its subjectsso arranged and classified that the law upon anygivenpoint maybe summarily ascertained." My impression is that this is a work that is absolutel necessary and should be done at once, an that it should not be delayed until all the laws of the U.S. have been codified in the manner proposed b the general proposition. Noharm, certain y, can result from it; and I think this work being done in the Treasury alone, by officers who have a perfect knowledge of the difficulties arising out of the complication of these laws, it will, perhaps, forward the work of the gentlemen who are to be appointed to codify all the laws.