§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury if Custom House officers are rendering assistance at Dartmouth to the coal shipping companies in connection with a trade dispute between the said companies and their coal lumpers by boarding steamers outside the river and informing the captains of the steamers of a dispute and influencing them to divert their steamers to other ports; and, if so, will he caution the Custom House officers referred to against taking any part in connection with trade disputes, either on one side or the other?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; the second part, therefore, does not arise.