Mr. HENDRICKS. On the amendment which I have suggested I have but a word or 2 more to say to the Senate. I was a little surprised that the Senfrom Illinois, in resist mg the amendment which I have now proposed, should go back to the discussion of the 14th section of the bill. That was before the Senate a few minutes a o, and the senator did not feel it to be his duty to discuss it; but to meet the proposition to amend the 3rd section he discusses the 14 th. Now, I am not.able to see the connection between the 2 sections. Iam not able to see the rele vancy between the 2 subjects, but it was agreeable to the Senator, an not. disagreeable to me, that he should make that argument. The Senator says that the 14th section is in tended for a condition of society bordering on that of war, when the courts cannot exercise their powers in any particular community, and that the civil rights bill was not intended for that condition of society. I thought the civil rights bill was better adapted to that state of society than to a state of society when the courts of the States are in full operation. The Senator has discussed the confidence which he.has, and which I ought to have, in the POTUS. I hope the Senator has as much confidence as 1' not less. For much of the policy of the POTUS I have the greatest respect. In what is known as his “ policy" I have entire confidence, and give it my cordial support; but why does the Senator repeat that which has so often been alluded to in the Senate, the fact that the POTUS has exercised, to say the least of it, in my judgment,0. doubtful power in refusing to eminander Semmes the right to hold a civil office in the cit of Mobile? Is the Senator disat isfied with 1 the action of the President in at regard, that he brings it up so fre neatly in the Senate? It was certain] desirable that that person should not hold teoffice; and if the resident could bring himself to believe that he had the power to say he should not, I am gratified that he should do so. But I think it very strange that Senators who for the last 4 or 5 years have exercised and apolo gized for the exercise of powers not defined or delegated in the law should now be so earnest in their demand that the President shall stand exactly upon the letter of the law. The purpose of the President, I presume, meets with the approval of the Senator. Then, if it was a doubtful power, that Senator, according to the course he has pursued for several years, the purpose being a good one, ought to seek an apo ogy for it rather than to criticise it., The question now is simply whether the Commissioner shall have the power to appoint as many clerks and agents as he pleases; and I did not. think that the Senator was happy in meetingthat particularpoint. He says that the salary is fixed. I say to the Senator that the salaryis not fixed. The number is not defined, and the salary is not fixed. This billprovides that the clerks and agents shall not receive less than $500 nor more than $1, 200; but if the Commissioner chooses, he may give to one man 8500 and to another man $1, 200 for doing the very same thing. The Senator says he could not vote for the proposition'of the Senfrom Maine the other day, because it gave the SecyTreasury the power to pay one for the same service than another;, 've one man $10,000 a year; but in the aggregate was fixed in the be number of officers and the sal lcft to the discretion of the ComI think that the proposition cer not receive the support of the Senator ine iS.