If those words continued, he said the power of removal by the President might hereafter appear to be exercised by virtue of a legislative grant only, and consequently be subjected to legislative instability; when he was well satisfied in his own mind, that it was by fair construction, fixed in the constitution.

The motion was seconded by Mr.Madison, and both amendments were adopted.

As the bill passed into a law, it has ever been considered as a full expression of the sense of the legislature on this important part of the American constitution.
[Sidenote: On the policy of the secretary of the treasury reporting plans for the management of the revenue.] The bill to establish the treasury department, contained a clause making it the duty of the secretary "to digest and report plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit." Mr.Page moved to strike out these words, observing, that to permit the secretary to go further than to prepare estimates would be a dangerous innovation on the constitutional privilege of that house.

It would create an undue influence within those walls, because members might be led by the deference commonly paid to men of abilities, who gave an opinion in a case they have thoroughly considered, to support the plan of the minister even against their own judgment.

Nor would the mischief stop there.