Mellen, the Treasury
agent, called on me to-day with a crude mess in relation to Treasury agents and
trade regulations. I told him they were not what we wanted and I did not like
them, that I thought the whole fabric which had been constructed at the
Treasury should be swept away. He claims it cannot be done by the Executive
under the law, and it is true Chase and his men have tied up matters by
legislation, literally placing the government in the hands of the Treasury.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 298
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