The American Baptist Missionary Union, 5 McLean, 544.] [( 2) Mr.Jefferson, more promptly than other great statesmen of his generation, appreciated the degree of power residing in the House of Representatives.

In a private letter discussing the subject he expressed views in harmony with Justice McLean's opinion, long before that opinion was delivered.

He wrote to Mr.Monroe: "We conceive the Constitutional doctrine to be, that though the President and Senate have the general power of making treaties, yet whenever they include in a treaty matters confided by the Constitution to the three branches of the Legislature, an act of legislation will be necessary to confirm these articles, and that the House of Representatives, as one branch of the Legislature, are perfectly free to pass the act or to refuse it, governing themselves by their own judgment whether it is for the good of their constituents to let the treaty go into effect or not.

On this depends whether the powers of legislation shall be transferred from the President, Senate, and House of Representatives, to the President, Senate, and Piamingo, or any other Indian, Algerine, or other chief."].