Mr. JOHNSON. Of course, high crimes and high misdemeanors. I do not speak, I certainly have no desire to speak, of what we understand has in part commenced, because a contingency may happen when we are all to stand in the relation to this subject in the atti tude of judges., I have no opinion, therefore, to express in advance. It would, in my judgment, be improper, as we are now situated in relation to the President, to express any opinion in advance. But that he is liable to control, under the authority conferred upon congress to impeach, there can be no doubt. The question whether he has the power which he exercises in relation to removals from office, or the power which he exercises in relation to the reappointment of officers who have been rejected by the Senate, is one question. Whether he abuses either power is quite another question. And the question whether that abuse, if it be an abuse, is a high crime or a high misdemeanor, is another question also, upon which sooner or later perhaps, if we are to be visited by such an affliction, the Senate may have to a88. p What I said to my friendfrom Maine at tha former session and what I admitted today is that in my judgment the President does go be: yond the power conferred upon him when he reappoints a party whose nomination has been presented to the o and rejected, provided the case stands there and stands there alone. If he thinks proper to reappoint such a person, I think it is his duty to inform the Senate, when he sends that nominee in a 2nd time for approval, what were the peculiar circumstances which caused him to disregard the opinion of the Senate. Any newly discovered facts, any evidence which he supposes would operate upon the judgment of the Senate not in their possession at the time they voted upon the nomination in the 1st instance, he may produce; but to disregard the opinion of the Senate upon the exact case on which the Senate acted, in my judgment is a clear abuse, which must be rem edied in some way or other, and the only way to remedy it is to reject those who may be nominated again.