Representatives by a majority of one hundred
and five.

Thus was an unpleasant controversy happily
followed by an expurgation of the last pretense
of statutory sanction to an encroachment upon
constitutional Executive prerogatives, and thus
was a time-honored interpretation of the Con-
stitution restored to us. The President, freed
from the Senate's claim of tutelage, became
again the independent agent of the people, rep-
resenting a coördinate branch of their Govern-
ment, charged with responsibilities which, un-
der his oath, he ought not to avoid or divide
with others, and invested with powers, not to
be surrendered, but to be used, under the guid-
ance of patriotic intention and an unclouded
conscience.

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