Mr. HOWE. I cannot allow this hold of the Treasury that we have got just now to pass away from us, and these appropriations to go, until I have said aword of explanation upon one remark of my colleagues. To recall the Senate to the state of the question, it will be borne in mind that he undertook to defend the policy which the President is governed by in his appointments, and to deny that he was making any appointments for opinions sake. I had some facts, that is to say, I heard some statements which I thought mili Stated against that view of the case, and I submitted them that I might know whether they were correct or not. In reply to that my colleague took occason to remark, as if it were a subject of personal injury to himself, that in his absence I had presented to the Senate some resolutions passe by the Legislature of Wisconsin asking him to resign his seat here in the Senate. If my colleague has a right to consider that a personal injury, if it was apersonal injury to him, I regret it. If it was a wrong done him, I regret the act very much. Those resolutions were sent to me by the SecyState of Wisconsin in company with several other series of resolutions and memo rials, most of which were addressed in terms to the Congress of the U.S. I could not understand any possible puriose in sendine them to me except it was to have them laid before the Senate; and so it iiever occurred to me to doubt for an instant that it was entirely proper, and that it was demanded as the due of this State of Wisconsin that they should be presented to the Senate. I did have a question in my own mind whether courtesy to my colleague did not rather call upon me to waitaud allow him to present the resolutions. I submitted that question to a couple of Senators much older and more experienced than myself sitting nearine, and it was in pursuance of their recommendation that I submitted the resolutions myself. I certainly did not intend to do my colleague any wrong. I do not believe today I did him any wrong. I do think the Legislature intended that those resolutions should be submitted to the Senate. The fact of their assago was known to the world, and I think only obeyed the wish of the Legislature of Wisconsin when I did submit them. But my colleague asks me if I consider that act of the Legislature instructing him to resign his seat because of some votes he had given here as an act of toleration, and whether I approve of the conduct. of the Legislature. Sir, the conduct of the Legislature he not been drawn inquestion at all. There had been no allusion to it whatever. But when my colleague holds up that act of the Legislature as an evidence of intolerance like that of which I spoke in certain appointments which were attributed to the President, I think he overlooks entirely the difference between the relations existing between him and the Legislature of Wisconsin and the relations existing between the President and the party who put him in the Presidential chair. My colleague seems to forget the fact that the Legislature of that State selected him out of all the people of Wisconsin to come here, bringing her power of attorney to declare her will, to defend her interests, to uphold her honor, to be her representative. They had requested him upon one great measureto make a given declaration of her wishes. He declined to do that. I do not attack my colleague for declining it, for obeying his own convictions instead of hers. That was his prerogative as a Senator. But havingseen fit upon that great vital measure to follow his own convictions, to declare his own wishes, and not to make known the wish of Wisconsin, I must be allowedto say in all candor that I do not think the State of Wisconsin stepped out of her jurisdiction, or that the Legislature overstepped the jurisdiction prescribed to them when they saw fit to comment upon that course of his as to them seemed just. With that action of the Legislature Ihud no conceivable connection in the world, any further than to be their organ in submitting the resolutions to the Senate. As to the other question raisedby in colleague and discussed here, touching the residents policy itself, I expressly waived any attack upon that. My colleagues ideas of reconstruction are not advanced here now for the 1st time, and I do not feel called upon now to say a word in reply to them.