Daily National Intelligencer

WASHINGTON CITY.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12.

The Senate of the United States have not yet decided on the nomination of Return J. Meigs to the office of Post Master General. They have referred it to a committee of that body, it is understood; not, as we believe, that there is any objection to the character of Mr. Meigs or to his fitness for the station, but for some reason which, as the Senate always sit with closed doors on Executive business, we have no mode of ascertaining. It is rumored, that some Members of that House are of opinion that the President cannot remove from, any more than he can appoint to office, without consulting the wishes and inclinations of the Senate. New and strange as this doctrine may appear, we are not inclined to discredit the rumor, after the principles broached in the very extraordinary resolutions offered a few days ago by Mr. Gore, on the subject of the powers of the President, whose arms certain members of that honorable body have of late been sufficiently inclined to fetter, by way of making up, we suppose, for the extreme latitude to Executive power for which in their younger days they were wont to contend.