Mr. THATER. This matter has been presented to the House by the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. ALLEY] in a very tender manner. Now, I undertake to say that whatever may have been the practice of the postoffice Dept, or of any other Dept of this Government in this respect, if it has coincided with what the gentleman tells us has been the practice, then it has been in direct conflict With the whole theory of approprietions, as they have hitherto been mac e by this Government, and as is provided in the Constitution of the U.S. Now, what is the proposition before us in this section? It is that after the ComAppropriat have investigated the estimates 0te public Depts of the Government, brought in their bill which in all its details has been examined and sed upon by this House, and each item of the appropriation has been assigned to its particu rpace and duty, all this is to o for nothing, and the POTUS is to have the disosal of the whole amount appropriated, without regard to any limitations which Congress inay have prescribed in regard to its expenditure. Now, I appeal to gentlemen to say whether this is not a monstrous proposition. I am not aware that either this Congress or any other has ever gone further than it went in the act of 1843, where in a general appropriation bill it was declared that if the amounts appropriated for certain contingent expenses in the different Depts were not exhausted, the head of each particular Dept might devote them to other objects authorized by law where there might exist a deficiency in the appropriation therefor. But that proposition was one totally different from the one proposed here. This is a proposition that all the money appropriated ii) gongress to a particular Dept of the government sha i be placed under the control of the POTUS For one, I protest against any such surrender of the responsibility which is de volved upon Congress by the Constitution of the U.S., in the appropriations of the money of the people of the U.S. The Constitution places upon us the responsibility of appropriatin properly the money raised by taxes upon the people and it will be in vain for us to say we meet that responsibilit properly, if we confer upon anyone by act of congress the power asked tobe conferred by the comPostOffice; if we say the POTUS, notwithstanding the directions made by congress in regard to the application of the public money, may proceed to make such disposition of it as he may see fit.