Mr. HENDRICKS. Mr. President, it was with a great deal of reluctance at the last session that I voted to place in the hands of the SecyTreasury $160,000, to be distributed among the employees of his Dept at his discretion, and I believe I was influenced in voting for it nearly altogether by the fact that his preedecessor had had a similar fund placed in his hands, had disposed of it in like manner, and I thought that a rejection of the measure at the incoming of the Present Secretary might be regarded as a reflection upon him and a question by Congress of his fidelity in the disposal of that fund; therefore I felt constrained to support it. And, sir, it will take a good deal more evidence than can be contained in an anonymous communication to make me believe that the SecyTreasury, or any other important officer of the Government, has executed a trust of that sort unfairly. A letter has been read, but the name has been withheld. My opinion of the impeachment of any public officer, or of any citizen, of this country by letters when the name is withheld from the Senate, I can illustrate by a circumstance in my own history. When I was the ComrGLO, the POTUS handed to the SecyInterior an anonymous communication making a charge against one of the clerks in the land office, a clerk that did not agree with me in politics, but I knew he was an honest, oclerk. The SecyInterior handed that to me with instructions to make an investigation. As soon as I opened it and found that there was no responsible sig nature to iIt handed it back to the SecyInterior, and said that while I was the ComrGLO no clerk should be put upon his trial upon any anonymous communication; and that message was carried back with the document to the President and the charge was never Presented against that clerk, and he never was put upon his trial and was never turned out; and I am glad to say, at this session, he has been confirmed by this Senate to a very important and responsible position connected with the land Service. That is my opinion, practically illustrated, of this thing of charging anything upon anybody or any set of people by an anonymous communication or a letter when the author of that letter is not made known to the Senate. The man who reads a letter and withholds the name makes it an anonymous communication as far as the Senate is concerned. I shall vote for this amendment if it is desired by the head of the ComFinance, for the reason that I do not think it vests in the Secretary the same sort of power that was vested in him by the provision at the last ses.sion. It authorizes him to employ temporary clerks because the business of the Dept is now supposed to be Pressing and large.