Mr. HOWE. By impeachment or by E. imduring his natural life, and then to e hung until he was dead, [laughter,) or by fine, or by all. I think some such measure as that would be sufficient to put an end to that particular evil. But I do not understand that to be the purpose of this bill. I understand it to be the purpose of this bill to put the control of the offices of the country under the laws of the country. I understand it to be the purpose of this bill to say, 1st, that the President shall no longer exercise the power which has been here tofore exercised under the authority of a statute of the U.S. to dismiss men from office whenever he pleased, and men who had been appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. It is the purpose of the bill to deprive the President of th. right to do these things. Now, is it right to do that?' On the other side we are told that it is essential that we should leave this power in the hands of the President; that the public business must suffer if you do not give him this control over these offices. I do not share at all in the apprehensions of those who reason that the public will be less faithfully served the moment we make a public officer understand that he is independent of the pleasure, the power, or the will of the Executive. On the contrary I am among those who believe that the country will only then begin to be faith fully served when public officers are made to feel that the tenure of their office is in the main limited to and dependent upon the continuance of this faithful service. I do not propose to argue that question; but on this side of the House it seems to be very generally conceded that we ought to make these offices independent of the Executive pleasure. Well, what offices? If one, why not all? I said the other day that I thought the heads of Depts ought to be independent of the power of the President. No, Senators said all around me, not those; those are too important; those are confidential advisers of the President; those are the heads of the Executive Depts of the Government; you ought to leave in the hands of the President the control over those offices. Now, the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts proposes to wrest from this absolute control of the this irresponsibleauthority of the President, some of the mine r offices of the country; and we are told now they are too low, they are too humble, they are too insignificant; so that the head and the tail of this official corps we are to leave in the hands of the President. The Senfrom Vermont, seems to be distressed for fear the body of the corps will be in some way injured.we are trying to rescue the 2 extremi ties, or one or other of the extremities. Mr. President, what is the objection urged against this amendment? It proposes to say in effect that all officers now appointed, either by the President without the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the head of a Dept, who has a o or a compensation of $1,000 per annum shall hereafter be appointed only by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and when we have said that the terms of those offices will be put under the same protection and the same security that you now propose to put other officers who are oby and with the advice and consent of the Senate. What is the objection to this? The Senfrom NewHampshire [Mr. CRAGIN] says, and the Senfrom Maine [Mr. FEssex I, ENJ echoes the Senator, that there are myriads of them, and it would introduce all sorts of confusion, and the business of legislation be stopped; that we should be overloaded. In the 1st place; Mr. President, instead of there being myriads, I believe the number to be very few. We are told that there is a countless host of inspectors in your cus tom houses, of weighers and gaugers, of inspect ors of spirits under your internalrevenue laws, of asst assessors, that would fall under this provision. There are a great many inspect ors I believe in the NewYork customhouse perhaps 2 or 300 the precise number I do not know. I believe in point of law they are not required to be appointed by the SecyTreasury, I do not know of any such law.