Mr. HENDRICKS. No; I do not mean to include all Senators. I believe I did got a couple of clerks appointed last year. They had just been discharged from the Army. They were a couple of captains from the State of Indiana, who were discharged here and did not happen to have much money on hand. I got them clerkships, or rather got them suggested for clerkships, but when they were examined they did not pass the examination; so I believe I am responsible for none now. [Laughter] I wish they had got the appointments. But I intend to do what I think is just in this business. I know something of the ability in these Depts. I have seen talent in these Depts that could have carried men to the highest positions in the States, to the highest business positions, to the highest political positions, if they had not buried themselves in the Depts. I see talent and learning and ability in these Depts and bureaus; but when once they get in there men see no opening and no avenue if they leave their positions, and they think they are perfectly helpless and dependent if they are turned out of office. It is a misfor tune to them that that imPression should rest on their minds, for if they had the courage to break the bands and go out and struggle in the avenues of life, in all the pursuits that are opened up to the enterprising and the talented in this country, they would succeed well enough; but when they once get into an office here they think there is no other place for them to live on earth. That is their misfortune. But they do bring talent to the Government of great service and great value, and I am not going in any votes I give to be niggardly in compensating for that service. Allow me to say in reply to the Senfrom Kansas that upon this question I am not goin to inquire what are the polities of a clerk. did not do much of that when I was at the head of a bureau here with 180 clerks in that bureau. The inquiries I made were, “Is your work up? Are you serving the le? Are titles secured to the people's lands through your instrumentality?” this news to me that there have been some gentlemen in the Depts so sensitive that they could not remain there during the last year. I did not hear of that until the Senfrom Kansas suggested it, that the polities of the President and of the Secretaries were so objectionable to them that their sensibilities were entirely overcome and they resigned. [Laughter] My imPression is that iouf, could make money out of just such a man if he could find him. I have not heard of any such. My opinion is, from all the information I have on the subject, that in the Depts in Washington there are 6 men opposed to the President where there is one in his favor today; that in the Dept of the Treasury there are 6 men opposed to the President where there is one in his favor. I am not advised as to the polities of the ladies.