Mr. JOHNson's policy, because I do not support that policy myself; bout that the SecyTreasury is an man and means to discharge the duties of his office faithfully and to the best of his ability I have no manner of doubt. Whatever his polities may be, and however Senators may like his course politically, I say that, because it is due to him to say it. I believe it firmly. Now, then, with reference to this particular thing, what does the Senator or any Senator propose? The Secretary, must have this amount of money, in my judgment and in the judgment of the committee, appropriated for this purpose. This appropriation is not going as far as the one alluded to went. There is nothing here to raise anybody's salary. All that is struck out. It is for the mere appointment of temporary clerks. The other appropriation referred to the permanent clerks in Fo the dewho were to receive pay under it. his appropriation covers no such thing. It is the mere ordinary appropriation which he must have to appoint temporary clerks, persons now out o the Dept, not permanent officers. Then he must classify them; that is, he must have different kinds of men; he must give some more and some less. If he is not to decide, who is? What does the senator propose in place of it? Would he have the assignment made by Mr. Anderson, the 6th Auditor, that this man complains of? And his is the only case in the whole Dept where the head of a bureau has been changed and a Democrat appointed; that is, of any of the regular bureaus, all the rest are of a different political character. But what I say with reference to this matter is this: here is an appropriation that, in my judgment and in the judgment of the committee, must be made; i is a discretion that must be exercised with regard to the use of this mons, that is, the classification of these clerks. ow, if the SecyTreasury is nt to decide that question, who is? What does the Senator propose? If he merely proposes to laint, raise this question and make this comlet him make it o against the Auditor; the has nothing to do with it in the world; that is to say, nothing consciously. I will ven ture to say, because I know from my acquaintance with the business there, that he could not look over the polities of all these men one way or the other. If it has been so in that particular bureau, I do not believe it has been in others; and from all that appears, although they were members of the Johnson Deptal Club, they might have been the very ones who should receive it. They do not give the money on account of politics. But with regard to this informant, I took pains to inform myself from good authority with regard to him, and I was satisfied that he was influenced by anything but a desire for the public good. He wanted to defeat