Mr. SCHENCK. I do not propose to add anything to what has been said or to anticipate anything that may be said in regard to the merits of Mr. Harvey as a rePresentative of the whole American people abroad. I do not propose to go back into Mr. Harvey's antecedents. I will make only the general remark that the rePresentative of our country abroad ought to be the rePresentative of the whole country, and that he was traveling out of his proper sphere, when, being abroad and representing the:sentiment of the whole country, he indulged in anything which by direction or indirection he laid before the President to be read abroad and criticised reflecting upon the Government. We recollect very well the history of the case of Mr. Van Buren, and how he was rejected by the Senate for dragging into observation at the conrt to which he was accredited questions which belonged to us at home only. The objection to Mr. Harvey I understand to be that he wrote home to the SecyState a letter which seems to have been designed for the public, and which was published, in which he takes occasion to commend himself to one branch of the Government by an attack upon another branch of the Government. such men are not fit to rePresent any branch of the Government abroad. The Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. RAY Mox D] says we should othe law authorizing his appointment. Why. sr, we have no law authorizing the appointment of rePresentatives abroad. The Constitution provides for that. It is the prerogative of the Executive to appoint embassadors and other ministers and consuls to foreign Governments. He does it without law. No law needs to be repealed and no law needs to be passed. And no law ever has been passed declaring what shall be the rePresentation of this country in this, that, or the other country. Now, further than this, Congress fixes what shall be the grade of its ministers abroad. When the Executive says that he wants a minister to Portugal Congress has to make provision for his pay, and that is the only check we have upon the Executive. While the Constitution gives him the power to appoint rePresentatives of the Government to any foreign Government on earth, it is our place to withhold our sanction to such appointments by denying the supplies for the payment of his appointees. In other words, the only way in which we can get Mr. Harvey is to “starve him out.”. And there is a peculiar propriety in our taking this course when it effects one of this “bread and butter brigade.” If the President chooses to keep Mr. Harvey or anyone else as our rePresentative at a foreign Court it is for Congress to say, “If you choose to keep such men as our ministers at these Courts, we will not pay them;” and in that way, although the [. may not recall them, I apprehend that these “bread and butter” gentlemen will soon be found wending their way homewards. [Laughter. But, sir, it does not lie in the mouth of the Executive to complain, for this matter was before the House at its last session, and the House struck out this appropriation. The senate reinserted it, and matter went finally to a committee of conference. The bill, as it finally passed, not only withheld the appropriation, but prohibited the payment of any such salary; and that bill, with that clause in it, the President signed and approved.