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Show In n coniniiiuiiation to tho Senate from Sccietary Herbert tho J.ict. ij brought Into piominence that when one of tho great ewcutlvo departmenta of Hicgovcrniurnt hiiyrt nnythlug abroad It rtfielvis fiom tho IT. 8. custom house flltfiillM tir.tc iiiftK- ftin b,.,,. iP..n. ........ that it given nn individual Importer p While war with Chill appeared to lio Inuulnent tin. Navy department cabled un ordu to Europo for a quantity of iirmour-pieniiig shUlx fur our warship? The older was promptly llllcd and Indue time the sheila arrived .ilthi- flew York ciistQin house, and tlu.v nre theru yet The Secretary of tho Navy li.nl lund n- viiihihletopiy for the thellB, bJT none upon which ha could hgally draw to pay tho duty upon then, aiidthe custom house ollkhlla refuted to givo Nthem up I until the duty wi-s paid. Now Ficrctary I Herbert asii that f,ui;r rs by jolnV trni'tift'.m remit the duty ,P- v- iHi.w...M ntrMM .a .v |