Mr. BANKS. Mr. Speaker, in the remarks which I made I had no allusion to any negotiations with the President. The Gentfrom Pennsylvania knows more of his opinions than I know, and will yield to his policy much sooner than I shall I spoke in good faith to the House, asking for time to debate this question. My reason for so doing is based upon a simple fact, an idea which every member of this House can comprehend: that the measures which we prose, and one of which is now before the house, depend for their efficacy upon being enacted by 2/3rds of each House of Congress against the executive branch of the government. Now, my opinion is that we cannot long carry on the Government in that way; that we must have laws in which the Executive will cooper ate, in order to make those laws effective. And if, after we, the RePresentatives of the people, have agreed as to what laws are necessary to secure the peace of the country and to maintain the existence of the Government, and after the people have sustained our action in passing such laws, the President then refuses cooperation, it is our duty to the country to lay aside the question of reconstruction for a time and proceed to the consideration of the position and purposes of. the President Now, upon that idea, and stating again my belief that we can before this session closes come to such conclusion as will compel the POTUS to sustain us in our action, or will justify us in another course if he refuses, I ask the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, {Mr. sjand if I fail there I ask the members of this House, to allow a day or 2 at least for the consideration and decision of this question of the existence of the Government. I have had no negotiations with the POTUS, nor do I know his opinions, and in the vote which I shall give upon this question neither the Gentfrom Pennsylvania {Mr. STEvens] nor any other man has the right to assume that I accept the policy of the Executive in the smallest partic: ular. I hope for a change of his position; I think that is not impossible. At all events, I think it is something which is worth our while to try for.