Mr. HALE. I move to amend the amendment of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. WILLIAMs] by striking out the following clause: And shall severally appoint their assts and all other subordinate officers pertaining to their respective Depts, subject to the approval of the Senate on report being made to that body if then in session, or if during the recess, at the next meeting thereof, to hold for the like period, unless remov with the like concurrence of that body. There are 2 or 3 very important objections to this clause of the amendment. The 1st is that it introduces into the constitutional practice of the appointing power an. element entirely unknown, and certainly not provided for in words by the Constitution. It is in fact a nomination by the head of a dept, subject to the approval of the senate. Now, the language of the Constitution is that the President “Shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consentof the Senateshall appoint, “all officers’whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the congress, may by law, vest the appointment of inferior officers such as they think proper in alone, the President in the courts of law, or in the heads of Depts.” the There is no provision for vesting the appointment in the concurrent action of any 2. except that of the President and the Senate. It seems to me it would not be wise to enter upon a policy which is of so doubtful appropri ety and of so doubtful a constitutionality as that proposed by this amendment. 2nd, I cannot see the ground on which the policy can be justified, even if it were deemed constitutional, of taking away from the President the appointment of a very large class of important officers, and conferring them, upon officers subordinate to the President. I do not believe that we should legislate in a bill of this character for today merely, for the present Executive, or with reference to the differences that exist between the present Executive and Congress. I believe we should seek to frame a bill which should be of general unlimited application, and which should be found to work well through all time. But this proposes to take from the President the appointment of all the Asst Postmasters General, the asst secretaries of the different Depts, the collectors of all our ports, and mar shals of all our districts, and give that appointment to the heads of the Depts, subject to the approval of the Senate. But, again, this bill also provides that the appointment of every clerk in the Depts, of every employee down to the very lowest grade of the civil service, shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation. There are about 30,000 of these officers. If the appointments of all these postmasters, clerks, deputy mar shals, deputy customhouse officers, &c., are. to be sent to the Senate, then it appears to me that body has before it a duty that will engross its entire time to the exclusion of every thing else.