Maclay relates: "A pause for some time ensued.

We waited for him to withdraw.

He did so with a discontented air." The privy council function of the Senate was thus in effect abolished by its own action.

Thereafter the President had practically no choice save to conclude matters subject to subsequent ratification by the Senate.

It soon became the practice of the Senate to restrict the President's power of appointment by conditioning it upon the approval of the Senators from the State in which an appointment was made.