Mr. TRUMBULL. Before it goes over I desire to say a word in rely to the suggestions that are made in favor of this proposition. The Senfrom Vermont very gravely asks if the mone collected should not be paid back. If this should be paid back, suppose the Secretary disobeys your law now, as he has been disobeying it for the last year, and continues these men in office. Next ear you will pay them again, or else you vi I pay the whole money back. Here is a palpable, clear violation of law. The law was enacted to meet just such cases as these. There was an appre pension in the mind of the Legislature when that statute was framed, that it was possible that persons might be appointed to office without ta 'ing the oath, and in order to provide against such cases there is a 2nd (provision that says that if they are so appointe they shall receive no compensation. Let me read asentence from the statute: “Hereafter every person appointed to any officeof honor or profit under the Governmentof the U.S.either in the civil, military or naval deptsof the public service, except the POTUS, shall before entering upon the dutiesof such officc and beforebeingentitled to an of the salary or other emoluments thereof, take an subscribetho following oath." He was given notice that before he under took to discharge the duties of the office he must take this oath; but it was thought he might disobey that, and then before he should be paid any money he must take this oath. He under stood this. The Secretary understood it; and when the SecyTreasury appointed him to go on and collect the money oft le Govenment, not his money, he violated the law. There is no money to be win] back. If a distillery manufacturer of the State of Georgia manufactured 20 gallons of whisky, the Government of the U.S. was entitled to 40 dollars, 2 dollars a llon on the manufacture of it; and the factt at it was collected by a traitor and paid over does not make it the traitor’s money. I submit to the Senfrom Vermont that the two dollar tax does not go to the traitor because it came through his hands. As well might you say that if the man who manufactured it was a traitor you had no right to collect money from him.