If the amendment now offered should be adopted, it would be in his discretion to change our representative from a minister resident to an envoy extraordinary, but without increase of salary; and the simple question remains, whether this enabling discretion is not proper.
Sumner argues that the amendment would enable the President to change diplomatic representation without increasing costs.
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