Supreme Court of the United States March 19, 1900, 145 (Quackenbush v. United States)

Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,

after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

In

Blake

v.

United States,

103 U. S. 227, it was held that the President has power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to displace an officer in the army or navy by the appointment of another person in his place, and that when that has been done he cannot again become an officer except