Mr. HOWE. Mr. President, I shall be very reluctant to see this vote reconsidered and to see this amendment rejected, because I think the amendment avery proper, avery judicious, and a very necessary one. There is no mere measure of expedienc and but few of necessity the defeat of which would occasion me so much chagrin and mortification as to have any measure of any kind prevail by the sort of argument which is adduced in support of the reconsideration of this vote. I could not but regret most deeply that the Senfrom Ohio [Mr. Susanna] thought fit to introduce here the argument which he has laid before the Senate. What is it? Conceding, for the purpose of his argument, our right to adopt this amendment, he still invokes the Senate not to do it; and why? Because it involves the Legislature in a collision with the Executive. For 20 years prior to 1860 a great deal of the legislntion of this body, and a great deal of the political action of the people of the U.S. was controlled, not by appeals to the judgment of legislators or to the conse iences and convictions of the people, but directl to their fears. The arglument more potential t inn any other that was eard throughout the republic wos, npon various and snndry questions, not that it is or is not right and expedient, but you must adopt this or reject that; if you do not there will e a collision somewhere. I am glad to know that in those days, which I some times am made to fear were braver days even than these, there was no attempt to frighten the Legislature by ointing out the horrors of a collision with the IPresident. We were threat ened invariabl with collisions in different portions of the nion. Different States of the uion said, if you do not submit to this policy, or to that, the Union will be disrupted. That was the threat which was held over the legislnture in those days. But now we are urge to pause, to reject an amendment conceded to be addressed to the discretion of the Legislature, because within its jurisdiction, for the simple and single reason that if we adopt it it may involve us in a collision with the POTUS Sir, if the Constitution, which we talk of frequently and which we regularly swear we will support, meant anything, if it meant to secure anything, it meant to secure a body to enact laws that should be as independent of the President as the President is or the Legislature.