Treasury DEPARTMENT, May "a, 1888.
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tives with your Message Of the 18th inst This
Department has been engaged in collecting infor-
nation on that subject during the last two years,
and, while employed, the local difficulties, in
some OF the principal seaports, caused by at
tempts to prevent the introduction of such pau
pers, became topic of frequent communication
to it-sometimes by writing and printed state
ments, and sometimes in person by municipal Of
ficers.


Among other communications concerning it.,
some were made, in the course Of the last sum
mer, by part Of the Commissioners of Health for
the city Of New York in visit to the Department,
and others were made by some person feeling an
interest in the question, by forwarding the ex-
tracts before mentioned, as containing matter per-
tinent to the subject.


Without critical examination, they were
placed on file, with the clerk having particular
charge of that business; and, when the papers in
this Department, concerning the introduction Of
foreign paupers, and, ''also, what steps, if any,
had been taken to prevent the introduction of
such paupers into the United Staes,'' were col
lected you, in the preparation Of reply to the
call the House, these extracts were submitted
in connexion with other matter bearing on those
inquiries.


This was done, in the pressure Of business,
without noticing the circumstance that in those
extracts certain remarks and structures of person.
al character appear to be mingled, concerning the
correctness of which the Department of course
knows nothing-which it could not desire to aid
in republishing-and which, had they been OBJ
served at the time, would not have been commu-
ncated.


Respectfully, yours,


LEVI WOODBURY.,


Secretary Of The Treasury.
To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.


Mr.. RUSSELL observed that his colleague
Mr.. Hoiman) was not now in his seat but Mr..
x. had prepared certain notifications of the reso-
luton yesterday offered by that gentleman, and he
wished the resolution moved by him to be now ia
ken up and considered, that the President and
Secretary might have an opportunity to set them
selves right before the House and the country.
Mr.. CAMBRELENG said, after what The
House had now heard, all that was necessary was
simple motion that the Presidents request be
complied with, and that he have leave to with
draw the papers referred to in the Message; for
which end ne moved the following resolution:
: That the committee to which the papers allu-
" ded to in the said Message have been referred.
: be discharged from the consideration thereof,
: and that they be withdrawn from the fles, and |
: returned to the President"