Mr. EDMUNDS. I hope that amendment will not be adopted. It is a very so proposition. We cannot tell, without a tare investigation by some committee, precisely”. officers it will operate upon, otherit ough: to go so far as it does; and it bears on theo of it as connected with this bill, which is "4"..' one relating to the powers and dio. the Senate, an implication that it is one ar: of the purpose of this bill to undo some'"; which the President has done. Now, that.” incorrect idea to be entertained respeoS o propositions embraced in this bill, fo !. cisely the idea that the opponents of the bil are most anxious to have the country tak" and adopt. tts I hope that my friendfrom Maso. will not insist upon loading an impo". of this description, which is to settle a principle, with a mere matter of detail." o needs investigation, which is certainly o is the implication and the imputation that: designed to be made the cover for. some wrong which the POTUS has done. It has no fit pla”.” e amendment to this bill. It might just as be applied to any other bill; and of proposition respecting the admini. bill, affairs might just as well be loaded on.a It is a subject separate and distine . belongs to itself, that ought to i.". ". iii.; boo. his bii made” to do is to regulate the tenure of office, and not to name the classes of persons who shall be treated as principal officers in the Government, so to speak, and be nominated and appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as distinguished from those inferior offices suggested in the Constitution, the apintment of which may be vested in the resident or the heads of Depts or the courts of law. I trust that my friendfrom Massachusetts will not encumber this measure, possibly endanger it, by loading it with a variety of questions which grow out of his amendment, which have no proper relation to the bill, and which expose it to animadversion and expose it to criticism which does not justly belong to the measure itself.