Mr. YATES.R.President, the Senfrom Indiana seems to manifest a modest and maiden sort of surprise at the doctrine which I have advanced. He wanted to know what was the motive principle with Senators in introducing this amendment. I did not know what the sentiment of the honorable Senfrom Ohio was in introducing the amendment, but I had a right to speak for myself, as I am in the habit of doing, and I spoke for myself. I said that when I occupied the position rela tively that the honorable Senfrom Indiana now occupies, when I was in the minority, I resisted the position that the spoils belonged to the victors; I believed that doctrine then demoralizing and unpatriotic; but, sir, like every good American citizen, when fairly over come by the voice of the majority I yielded, and said por populi poz dei., Sir, the principle which I propose is that which is now acted upon by both parties throughout this country. ere is no Legislature in the U.S.A. where the dominant party does not employ its own agents in carrying out its principles, whether it be in public printing or whether it be in the dispensation."patronage in any shape whatever. There is no State in the U.S.A. where this principle is so rigidly adhered to as in the State of Indiana. If the party to belongs which the honorable Senator in the State of Indiana were in the ascendant today, that honorable Senator will not stand up before the Senate and say that the public printer of the State of Indiana should not be a Democrat true from his head to his heels. He contends for no such principle. When he pretends to say that we propose to . “plunder” upon the Treasury, what he mean? My object is to place the pat ronage of the Government in the hands of a party which is not distinguished for plunder; whose record is clear and pure upon the subject of public plunder. I. to place it in the hands of the Republican Union party, that is not so much .for plunder and spoils as for exalted devotion to the country during the trying scenes which have tested the patriotism of the various parties of this country.