Mr. SCHENCK. The principal difficulty under which he labors in regard to our purpose appears to be that we have not done something in such manner as to make it plain to the peole. Now, sir, my observation teaches me to believe that the people do not need any particular explanation; but they have recently proved to the world that they fully understand the questions submitted to them by Congress. And I do not know that we can make this thin any plainer than they seem to have considered those other matters which they have passed ur)011. ongotiate my colleague, [Mr. LeBLoWD] however, upon the fact that he will escape from all the difficulties in relation to this question under which those who come back to any succeeding Congress will labor; and he will also be relieved at the same time from all respon sibility of presiding over that portion of the deliberations in this Hall which goes on on that side of the Chamber. But he has another apprehension; that we find the President or something else an obstruction in the way of our legislation here, and are endeavoring to overcome or get around that obstacle. I say to my colleague, as I attempted to say a few minutes since when I interrupted him, that he is entirely mistaken upon that point. We have not, according to our recent experiences, found either the President, or those who support him, at all in the way of a determination of the decisions of the Congress of the U.S. Now, what is the gentleman's objection? It is that we create a session of Congress which will continue until the subsequent session of Congress begins. Sir, there is no such provision in this bill. The gentleman certainly has not read it aright, nor i.he comprehend the amendment which is proposed to it. It provides that in addition to the sessions of Congress prescribed by the Constitution, there shall be another session to begin on the 4th of March, the day on which the term of the Congress itself begins. As to the length of time that session shall last, both the bill and the amendment are equally silent. I suppose the session will continue until Congress shall choose to adjourn. That is the most either he or anyone else can make of it. I hardly suppose the gentleman wishes us to attempt any legislation which will prevent congress from adjourning just when it pleases either at the end of the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd session of that body. Now, the gentleman need not be at all afraid that this is done for the purpose of “taking up” the President, as he expresses it, or “taking up” anybody else; or that we are going to. interfere with any relations between him and his colleagues around him, and the President. I do not believe they took him up or he took them up. I do not believe it was a “takin up” at all; but that each took the other in an not up. Then finding that it was a mutual delusion, they are now ready to separate and dissolve the partnership. There is no object, Mr. Speaker, in all this legislation except what appears upon its face; there is no “cat under the meal.” We propose Congress shall continue as one of the coordinate branches of this Government, under such circumstances that there shall be no danger in any shape to the country by reason of an interregnum which shall leave suspended the functions of the legislative dept during 1/3rd or any other portion of a congressional term. This is the whole of it. If, in addition to this legislation, we choose to proceed to other measures, to which the gentleman has alluded, but which are not in question now if we take means to hedge round the President, and prevent some of that mischief in which he is now engaged we shall perform a very laudable work; a work which I trust will go on until we have done all in that direction that may be possible or desirable. The question being taken on the amendment of Mr. STEVENs, it was agreed to.