Mr. HENDERSON. Fthank the Senfrom Ohio for his defense of this proposition, which I think is perfectly clear, an I have but little to add to what he has said. The proposition seems to me to be perfectly lain. examined all these opinions of the ttor neys General, and I found, in addition to the opinion referred to by the Senfrom Maryland, quite an able opinion given by Mr. Taney, when he was AttyGen, upon the same subject, and sustaining in its position the views taken by Mr. Wirt. It is an opinion given in 1832 upon the appointment of a land officer in Mississippi, where the opinion is again given by that Dept of the Government, that where the President appoints, the appointment holds until the last day of the sesswn; and if the session of the Senate shall be adjourned without acting upon the nomination there is a vacancy again. It is contrary to my views of the subject, and yet I find that these opinions have been inva riably given as stated by the Senfrom Maryland. He is correct in stating that such has been the o inion, I believe, of every AttyGen who has been called upon for an Opinion on the subject; butI differ with the Senfrom Maryland in the opinion that he has expressed, that this amendment conflicts with that view of the subject. I do not think it has anything to do with it. I have so drawn the amendment as not to run counter to any opinion given by any AttyGen on the subject. My idea in presenting the amendmentis, that if the President shall nominate an officer to the Senate, and the Senate shall act upon it and specifically reject the appointment, and the resident insists upon tgat party holding the office after the adjournment of the Senate, he shall have no salary. I differ with the Senfrom Maryland in supposing that if Congress shall not vote to the executive Dept money, the executive Dept can continue its operations. I apprehend that Congress, by refusing to grant appropriations in the midst of a most important war, can stop the wheels of Government in that behalf. We can absolutely refuse to grant the means to carr on a war, and it will necessarily cease, provied we should do so. Now, the President makes an appointment. We have to advise and consent to that appointment, or else it is no appointment after the adjournment of the Senate. I grant that the appointment made lasts until the last day of the session; but the Attorneys General say that the President himself, by making another appointment and submitting it to the Senate, destroys the force of the 1st appointment. I have, therefore, damn this amendment in reference to that point also. If the President fails to send us another appointment, and after we have rejected his appointment leaves the appointee to hold the o ce 1 say he can 10 ally hold it no longer than the last day of the session, and when that day arrives it is clearly within the power of congress to saythat that man, by virtue of that appointment, or by virtue of any succeeding apointment, shall receive no pay. he Senfrom Maryland, perhaps, is sustained by the opinions of the Xttorneys General upon one point, and that is, that a vacancy exists at the adjournment of Congress.