Mr. SUMNER. And they came, as my friend reminds me, within the order of the Secretary himself. But when we get beyond this list, when we get among the general clerks, if I may so say, what do we find? We find that all this money is given to persons who are members of what is known as the Johnson Deptal Club. I have in my hands the following list, which I will read:. “Political status of thoseselected by the Auditor who do not performwhatarecalled analogousduties: C. A. Tavener, Johnson Deptal Club; J. Wilson,0. club; alsoof that club; W.H. Sullivan, alsoof that J. F. Maguire, also of that club; Joseph Bul loch, also of that club; F. M. Lalor, also of that club; C. G. McLeran, also ofsionist, that cimbo.W. W. Co. seces! and also of that club: W. C. Lipscomb, jr., secessionist, and also of that club: J. G. Jewell, Democrat, appointed from Mississippi by JeffersonDavis: F. B. Lilley, a Johnson man at time; the election G. H. Thomas, doubtful.” Then I am told that the remaining 6 on the Auditor's list are believed to be Republicans; but it is doubtful how some of them would have voted at the election. Now, the Republicans in that bureau number 90, the Johnson men 30, doubtful 6; and yet where there is that relative proportion of Republicans and of Johnson men and of doubtful men, you have this lion's share of the compensation given to men whose chief recommendation is, that they were members of the Johnson Deptal Club, or secessionists, or appointees of JeffersonDavis. That is in one of the bureaus of the Treasury Dept. Senators about me say that of course the SecyTreasury is responsible for it. I should suppose he must be held responsible for it. The question now is, whether we can commit that discretion to him. I agree with the Senfrom Maine that as a general thing discretion must be lodged some where, and that it would seem with regard to the Treasury Dept that we must either abolish the office or abolish the man. And yet if we can take any precaution suggested by the experience of the past should we not do it? Are you willing to allow the $50,000 that you are about to appropriate to be distributed in this unequal way and according to the unhappy political proclivities of the SecyTreasury? I think that we ought to take some precaution against it. I do not wish, however, to prevent this allowance of money. I wish to secure it for the benefit of these men and the business of the Dept. I am contented with the statement of the Senfrom Maine that the Dept needs this additional service; but then I ask the Senator to give us some provision by which we shall prevent its being prostituted as there is to believe reason a similar allowance on another occasion has been prostituted by the head of that Dept.