Mr. HOWE. Well, yes, I guess they do, Mr. President; but I do not think they know them any more when the SecyTreasury or the SecyNavy appoints them than they would if the appointment was given to the President; no more in the one case than in the other. Undoubtedly they know something about them. I am inclined to think they know a little too much about them. The trouble is that those who represent the people of these States, and who by the Constitution are charged with the work of the selection of these servitors, are not consulted, have no voice in the matter, have no control over it, because we have relin uished it, given it up. We who stand nearer than either the President or the head of any Dept to the people shirk this duty and throw it upon somebody else. Mr. President, I did not mean to belabor the Senate a great while upon this matter, and yet I am extremely anxious to see the amendment adopted or anxious to hear some reason assigned why the amendment should not be adopted. As I intimated at the outset, if it is a proper thing to be done at any time, why not do it on this bill as well as on another? This bill is working toward the same end. The Senfrom Vermont certainly does not mean to urge that he has a copyright to this bill and that any amendment would be an infringement of his right in it. No one seems to assert anything of that kind. Why not put it in here? This paper on which he has drawn the bill is not too good to carry this proposition if it is a good proposition. If it is not a good proposition, tell us why it is not. But when you tell us that it is not wise, not judicious to take from the President the power over these other officers whose salaries are over 1000 dollars, I think you will have instructed me that it is not best for you to interfere at all; put your hands in your pockets where they have been for the last year; let the President go on; and if I was not in the Senate I should say run the machine, but I believe the expression would not be be coming in this place. I think it is best, at all events, for us to do our duty and our whole duty, or let it alone entirely and let somebody else do it.