Martin Van Buren actually said...

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th December last, I communicate to the Senate a report

Relating to the commerce and navigation carried on within the Turkish dominions and in the Pashalic of Egypt.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with ...

The propriety of new legislation regulating the whole matter by express laws seems very apparent.