In response to this letter. Secretary Foster invited the Senator f rpm Tennessee and myself to call upon him. We did so on the 23d. and also had an interview with Assisttant Secretary of the Treasury Spaulding. the assistant in charge of quarantine and immigration questions. The result of these conferences was that the Senator from Tennessee and myself went to New York on the 28th day of December. and on the 29th and 30th we examined the present preparations for the exclusion of cholera from that city. It is well known to Senators that 90 or 95 per cent of the immigration into the United States comes into the city a! New York. and that the most danger of cholera is to be apprehended from vessels arriving at that port. Before we went to New York the following memorandum was sent to Assistant Secretary Spaulding. which I will ask the Secretary to read.
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