Mr. SHERMAN. On the very day on which I made the remark in regard to the sending these nominations to the Senate the great body of the nominations to which the Senator alludes were sent to the Senate. The assessors and collectors for Pennsylvania and some of the eastern States were sent us; but up to this hour none of the nominations for the State which I in part represent have been sent to the Senate. nder these circumstances I think I was justified in making the criticism upon the conduct of the President that I did. I certainly have no unkind feelings to the President; but I do think, as he was elected by a political party to the office under which he became POTUS, that he had no right to regard the political divisions that might arise in the course of his administration to operate upon him as a reason for turning men out of office. They merely differed with him on questions as they arose; and yet in many cases in the State of Ohio there could be no other reason assigned for these removals except political reasons. It was not pretended in that State that they were removed for any other cause. On the contrary, I know of cases where officers have been removed who now hold in their hands letters from the heads of Depts, who must have concurred in their removal, certifying that they were not removed for any cause except for political reasons; that they had discharged the duties of their offices ably and well; and entirely disproving the allegation now made that these removals were made merely because the incumbents had held the office for 4 or 5 years, and there ought to be a rotation in office, or that they had abused the President or the like of that. I do not wish to go into particular cases, because this is not the proper place to discuss them; but I can say without fear of contradiction that I could name many of these officers who were removed without the least pretense that they were guilty of any incivility to the President or of any want of care in their offices. Some of them were removed although they had held their offices but for one year, having been apointed by President Lincoln and confirmed the Senate; and in some cases men who were appointed by President Johnson himself, and whose nominations were confirmed by the Senate, were after the adjournment of congress removed for political reasons. Under these circumstances I think it is the duty of the Government to guard against these removals for mere political reasons. As I said the other day in the few remarks that I made on the subject, I see nothing in the bill now before us that is not justified by the counsels of the fathers and of all who preceded us in our office of Senators. If I understand the bill, all it provides for is that a person duly appointed to office, by the appointment of the President and the sanction of the Senate, shall hold his office until his successor shall be appointed, and that no person who is thus appointed with the sanction of the Senate shall be removed from his office until the Senate and the President concur in his successor. That is the whole scope and purpose of the bill, and if it is confined to that I certainly shall support it with great pleasure. When my friendfrom Massachusetts offered his amendment the other day to the bill in regard to pension agents I voted against it, and when it is now renewed on this bill I shall vote against it. The reason is, that it extends to a multitude of officers, the appointment of whom ought to be left with the heads of Depts. But there are classes of officers that he does include in his amendment whose nominations ought to be sent to the Senate. For instance, there is a class of revenue agents, whose pay amounts in some cases to from 2500 to 3,000 dollars, and who are among the most responsible officers in the Treasury Dept. Under the law when they were appointed they were not deemed very important, and they were therefore not directed to be sent to the Senate. I think they ought to be. So in the case of postoffice agents, men who receive from 2 to 5 thous and dollars per annum, and who are the right hand, you may say, of the postoffice Dept. Their nominations are not now sent to the Senate, but they ought to be. While I am speaking of removals, I will mention one that was made in the postoffice dept. The postoffice agent for the northwestern States, holding the most important agency under the postoffice Dept, a man conceded by all, conceded by Postmasters General Blair and Dennison, and even by the present incumbent, to be a man in every respect fitted for the office, was turned out of office during the last vacation for political reasons, because he would not participate in the Philadelphia convention Aid" is fate and his fortunes to the new party; and a man was appointed in his place who had been previously in a subordinate position in the postoffice Dept and turned out. This is a prominent case. I merely speak of these cases to show that these removals have been made for political reasons. In the case I have mentioned the nomination has not been and need not be sent to us at all, although the office is one of the most important in the postoffice Dept. If the Senfrom Massachusetts will confine his amendment to offices of sufficient importance to excite the attention of the Senate shall vote for it with great pleasure. As it now stands, it extends to all the asst assess ors, about whom we can have no information;, it extends to all the customhouse officers in the city of NewYork; it extends to the weighers there. There is not one of them whose compensation is not $1,000. It extends to the inspectors of distilleries. At the last session their compensation was increased to 4 dollars a day. So that every inspector of customs will have to be sent to us under the amendment of the Senfrom Massachusetts. The pay of the weighers and gaugers was raised, I think, to $2,000 a year, and they will have to be sent here for confirmation. A multitude of small officers, who are the mere agents of their principals, who have no power except simply as deputies to a principal who is sent to us, would be required by his amendment to be sent to the Senate.