Mr. CHANLER. Now, sir, the question is as to the employment of persons by this government in certain Executive Depts; and I shall proceed to debate that question as I was proceeding to debate it when thus discourteously interrupted by the Gentfrom Illinois [Mr. FARNsworth] who presented the amendment. I was proceeding to debate it in good faith, as I suppose he offered it in good faith. But the part of the political bully, played by the other side of the House, is performed with especial grace by the individual who has assumed to cut off debate upon his own proposition. Now, sir, I wish to set myself right upon the record here with regard to this question of executive patronage, whether in the Treasury Dept or any other Dept. I am no advocate of the President, and I cannot take the position assumed by my friendfrom Ohio, [Mr. LeBLoND] I am, sir, for the limitation of executive power. I am for the limitation of the administration of patronage by every dept of this Government, and for the distribution of it through and among the representatives of the people. This is the only wholesome basis on which the Democratic party can exist. I thank the gentlemen from Illinois for bringing this question before the House. We on this side of the House cannot support the policy of Abraham Lincoln, even though it be under the protection of AndrewJohnson. What was done under the plea of a “military necessity” shall not, with my sanction, be done when that plea is abandoned by those who originated it. When gentlemen on the other side have abandoned their own official, elected by themselves, for the distribution of patron age, I for one will not take him up, have had nothing to do with the distribution of patronage in the Treasury Dept. As a Representative elected by Democratic votes I do not wish to participate in that patronage. It never has been at my command, and until I join with the Administration I will not condescend to ask any share of it. I wish the line to be drawn between Democrats of the Democratic party and Democrats of the conservative Republican party who desire to live upon the pap and patronage of the Administration. I wish to be understood, sir, as belonging to the young Democracy of this contiment, and not to thei. of the Treasury Dept or any other Dept. I wish to be understood as being a radical of radicals in the Democratic faith. I am not one of those who are willing to make discriminations against their own race and to exclude white men in order to let in black women to work in the I call for the reading Treasury Dept. I cannot follow the Gentfrom Illinois in all the ramifications of Sehxis philanthropy and his love for the female [Here the hammer fell]