Mr. HOWE. I desire now to renew the amendment which I submitted while this bill was in ComWhole, to strike out the words included within parenthesis in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th lines of the 1st section, as follows: Excepting the Secretaries of State, of ury, of War, of the Navy, and of the InttehreioTr, retahse PostMGenl, and the AttyGen. I tried the other day when this same question was before the Senate to submit my reasons for urging the amendment. I was conscious at the time that I made a very in adequate presentation of them; but I find the whole argument in a morning paper, and it is so complete and I find myself so utterly unable to answer it and so confident that no one else can answer it that I desire to produce it. It is a quotation in the paper from which I read, from the NewYork Herald: “It is rumored this evening, in reference to senator Cowan's appointment as minister to Austria, that an important position in the Cabinet, which it is confidently asserted has been tendered him, will influence in a great measurehis decision in accepting or of the appointment to a foreign mission. The portfolio of the SecyWar is among the considerations which will induce him to remain.” No one has denied that our authority over this question of removing a SecyState is just as ample as it is over the removal of any other officer. If my amendment be adopted, then this portfolio will not operate at all to dissuade the gentleman alluded to in this paragraph from going to Austria. If my amendment is adopted, this portfolio will not, I take it, be given to the gentleman alluded to in this paragraph. Those who think that that change ought to be made I suppose will vote against this amendment. Having a very high opinion of the gentleman alluded to myself, so far as his personal character is concerned, I am compelled to say that I do not think that would be a good change to make for the interest of this country,therefore I shall vote for the amendment, and I ask for the yeas&nays upon it.