Mr. COWAN. I suppose, sir, the otion is not any more violent against the President than it is against the Senate. I suppose that the responsibility of the Senate to the people is not indeed so direct as that of Hje. the And I suppose further, that if my honorable friendfrom Oregon has read very closely the history of the past he has found that the danger is far greator from a body irre sponsible, because of its numbers, than it is from a single man. But it unfortunately hap F. for his theory here in this case that the resident has the initiative. The office of the Senate is 2nd ary; the office of the Senate is not to do good, it is to prevent mischief. It is not exactly in its nature active, but rather negative. The President appoints officers; the Senate advises and consents to those of them which are good; but it by no means follows from that that if there is a disagreement the President is to be deprived of his power of appointing officers, and it is too late in the day now to attempt to reverse the practice of 75 years, when the Government has gone upon an entirely different theory and one which F.say resulted from the necessity of the case. No matter how much the honorable Senfrom Oregon and many other people may have lamented it, from the very necessity of the thing this rule has resulted, and it has been uniform in the Government; and the only question now is whether we shall be revolutionary and overturn it. I think myself that this is revolution. I think myself the country is in a state of revolution. took this passionate conflict between 2 depts.F the General Government, " neither one willing to trust the other, neither one willing to abide upon the original foundation on which the Government was laid, is revolution. If it be revolution, the bill of the honorable Senator is perfectly in keeping. If it be so, and if it be necessarily so, that one or the other of these 2 powers or 2 parties or 2 factions (if you please to call them so) is to have the appointment of the officers and the regulation of the offices, revolution will bring about that result; but if we are to remain where the Constitution put us the President has that right, and the honorable Senator and his friends will have to submit to it. If they do not like to submit to it, and if they think they have the power to overturn it and have their way, that is revolution; and when you do that where are you going to stop? What next are you going to do? The very moment you take that step you are obliged to take another and another and another; and what is the end of it? The end of it is that the government will be crushed between the upper and nether millstone, and nothing else.