Mr. HOWE. The Senfrom Maryland, upon the question of whether this power is derived from the Constitution or not, does not give us the benefit of his opinion. He knows the Constitution, for he has read it a great many times and for a great many years. If the power is in the Constitution he is the very man who could show it even to me; but in stead of telling me where this curious power sleeps in the Constitution he contents himself with referring me to the casual declarations of this or that man who has gone before, and who seemed to admit that the power was in the Constitution. I have said, and now repeat, that this power is the creature of the statute and not of the Constitution. I have read the statute which gives the power, which has continued the law; and although Mr. Webster said or intimated, in the language which has been read here, that that had been construed to be the constitutional power of the President, I must say I think Mr. Webster spoke without due consideration of that particular point, because if Mr. Webster had meant to say that the Constitution conferred that power he knew as well as any man who ever spoke the language how to say it, and if he thought that power was in the Constitution he knew as well as any man who ever read it where the power was, and he would not have referred us to the act of 1789 as the evidence that that power was in the Constitution, but would have referred us to the Constitution itself. But the Senfrom Maryland.". this question with his usual adroitness, and having stated the opinion of Webster upon this point, and assuming that that settles the case that the Constitution confers the power, he asks us if nothing is to be considered as settled. I will not reply to that question put by the Senfrom ol. I prefer to consider that question with my friends on this side of the . I am talking to them; and they say that that is not settled; their bill denies that the Constitution confers this power on the President, and they deny by their bill that the President ought to have this power. It is to them I am talking.