Mr. HENDRICKS. I know that is what the Senator said, and therefore upon that consideration I understand the Senator to a co to vote for this report. New, I do not think, in the 1st place, the bill is in danger. It has never been held that we must agree to the report of the 1st committee of conference. Ifthe report is not agreeable to us we appoint another committee. It is not, as I understand it for Senators to meet a committee of the House, and for the chairman of the House committee to say, “ Ifyou do not come to the terms of the House there is no use in holding a conference.” That is not the spirit in which the 2 Houses meet, and I do not understand that the Senate is expected to yield to such a spirit. But, sir, the proposition is that we cannot turii a man out because his political views differ from those of a majority of the Senate; but we will go just as far as we can; we will compel him to abandon the office; we will pay everybody else that holds office according to law; and an appropriation bill, according to the rules of the Senate, is simpl to carry out the law. The law is that there 5 all be a minister at Portugal; the law is that he shall receive a fixed salary; the appropriation bill is simply to carry that out. ow, we say that we will not execute the law; that we will compel a man to resign by refusing to psay him his salary; and upon what reason? because he has written a private letter, and because that letter has been published. What is there wrong in that letter? Taking the letter itself, what is there wrong in it? In the 1st place he compliments, I think in very a proriate language, the President of the Lihiteg States. It may be that a man holding office at the pleasure of the President ought never to comp iment him. It may be that senators are right in that criticism; but the compliment is right. No Senator here will dare say, I think, that anything that is said in the letter in regard to the course of the President during the rebellion is not strictly sustained by the history of the rebellion. Is it not true that