to be promotive of the public good. But if this ratification necessarily implie a justification of a violation of the constitution, in the appointment of the negotiators; and if by such ratification we are estopped to deny this, then, indeed, has the time come, when our opinion of the general welfare is the substitute for the requirements of the charter.But how does this Nike Air Max question come before us? An amendment to an appropriation bill is here proposed, the object of which amendment is to authorize the expenditure of more of the public revenue than was contemplated by the other House, where the bill originated. If this amendment obtains, the bill so amended must be sent back for the approval of the House of Representatives. When there, who will be hardy enough to affirm that these The North Face Outlet constitutional guardians of the money of the people are estopped from inquiring into the fitness of granting what may be asked, and of the mode in which the grant should be made? Such an affirmation would be carrying the claim of North Face Outlet Executive power to an extent never before heard of. Yet it must be conceded on all hands, that the power of the Senate over this appropriation bill is precisely the same, neither greater nor less, than that of the other House. What then becomes of this doctrine of estoppels, urged upon the Senate to prevent the assertion of their constitutional rights?Mr. President, I have now done with this part of the subject; and I will detain you but a few moments in examining the second question. In discussing this, I am obliged to concede, gratia argumenti,that the President, during the recess of the Senate, might lawfully have instituted this mission, by making these original appointments. Yet, granting this, I nevertheless contend that it was his bounden duty to have submitted to the Senate at their next session the temporary appointment of these Ministers. I have not heard a single suggestion even whispered in excuse, much less SENATE.Turkish CommissionPower of the Presidentto Originate Missions.FEBRUARY,1831.in justification of this omission, except the fact supposed by the honorable Senator from Illinois, which he Oakley Sunglasses must pardon me for saying, whether it may be as supposed or not, does not, in any way, alter the case. Nay, this solitary argument itself implies, that if the fact be not as Nike Australia is supposed, this omission has no defence.My friend from Illinois says, and says very truly, that if the commission Nike Shoes Australia granted by the President to these Ministers, on the 12th day of September, 1829, was properly granted, it would have continued in full force until the end of the next session of the Senate, that is to say, until the 31st of May, 1830; and this without the advico and consent Of the Senate. He then argues that the treaty was concluded on the Nike Air Max 90 7th of May, 1830, whereupon these Ministers became functi officii,ceased to be the officers of the Government, and therefore it would have been quite idle and unnecessary for the President to have nominated them to the Senate.Now, if all this should be granted, it constitutes no justification to the Executive, because it is obviously an afterthought that could not have occurred to them until long after the session of the Senate. If Washington and Constantinople, instead of being separated as they are by two seas, were connected by a railroad, along which the conveyance might be as rapid as between Liverpool and Manchester, the intelligence of any event occurring in the Turkish capital, on the 7th of May, could not be communicated much beyond the Western islands by the 31st of that month. Then the demand la of an impossibility, North Face Outlet Store which would have us suppose that the Executive knew of the conclusion of this treaty, and therefore did not make the nominations of these Ministers to the Senate during their last session. And the question is to be tried, not by the fact, but by their knowledge of it. I pray the Senate to notice the various and contradictory modes resorted to The North Face Outlet Store for enlarging the power of the