Mr. HENDERSON. I have not any question about the authority of the legislative power to confer upon the President the power of suspending or removing officers; but the difficulty presented in the question of {. the Senfrom is, that according to the previous practice of the Government, we have left the power of removal to the President, and never thought it necesary to regulate it at all. We have always claimed it, but we have never claimed it by an act of Congress. I under take to say that if gentlemen will refer back to the history of the Senate in its contests with the President, they will find that the Senate has always differed with the President; but we never could get legislation on the subject. During the whole time of the controversy with General Jackson the Senate was opposed to him, and passed a resolution condemning his act in removing the deposits from the U.S. Bank. The Senate at that time took direct issue with General Jackson upon his power of removing Mr. Duane and appointing Mr. Taney, who was afterward Chief Justice. The original resolutions introduced by Mr. Clay condemned it upon the ground that no such power existed in the President. It was condemned by the Senate in 1813, when Mr. madison undertook to appoint commissioners to negotiate a peace with GreatBritain. It will be recollected that the Senate took issue with him on that subject, and said he had no authority whatever to make those appointments without consulting the Senate. It has been at all times contested on the part of the Senate, and when the majority in the Senate has been adverse to the political policy pursued by the President they have never failed to protest against the exercise of this power by the President alone; but generally, as was the case when the Senate was protesting against the conduct of General Jackson, the HoRep was with him, and it was an utter impossibility to get any legislation on the subject. I do not suppose that any gentleman who has argued the question I do not suppose that the Senfrom Maryland or any other lawyer will take the ground that under the Constitution the President has the right to make these appointments without consulting the Senate at all, or that he can make removals in the vacation and Congress have no power to regulate them.