Mr. ROG RS. I do not know whether we can enlistthe Fenians. I think that the Fenians are able to take care of themselves. I suppose that the gentleman, if he has an love of IR) erty, will, in common with all other men who rejoice to see republics established everywhere, give his sympathy and aid to the Feuians in fiicir effort to throw off the yoke of tyranny with which England has oppressed the Irish people for the last 7 hum red years. I suppose the gentleman has not yet forgot ten we were once under the tyranny and bond age of England. I hope he has not forgotten we spurne the right of taxation assumed by GreatBritain, that we reclaimed our independence, thut our forefathers spilled their blood in defense of their freedom; and Itrust that gentlemen will now sympathize with the down trodden people of Ireland who are making the some effort to relieve themselves from the same despotism of England. But, sir, this country is not England. It is a republic. It is one which exists in the sympathy and love of the people. It is bound together by the iron bands of affection, which can never be broken or rent asunder. There is no necessity, therefore, existing in this free country to keep officers in pay at 1,000s of dollars ayear, who have nothing to do in a time of peace except to lounge about the country. Why, Mr. Speaker, our taxes are now bur dening us down. We have a national debt of $3,000,000,000. That is exclusive of the debts of the States, of perhaps Sl,000,000,000 more. It is the bounden duty of the people to pay every dollar of that debt. Let us keep our faith and obligation withthe people with whom we contracted this debt. Let us bend our energies in such way that the resources of the country will come under our command freely, from the hearts of the people, without resistance on their part or oppression on ours and it is mainly on the ground that this adds enormously to our expenses that I am opposed to it. The idea of allowing it to be in the power of any person who may be at the head of our military establishment, or of the POTUS, a corrupt or ambitious man if you please, to control so vast a standing army, is radically wrong. He may use it to control the affairs of the Government and to accomplish the objects of his personal ambition like some of the leaders in ancient Rome and elsewhere. It is dangerous to the liberties of the people. It is introducing an element into the Government which in the end will prostrate the best interests of the whole country. There is no necessit for it. No gentleman, so far as I have hear, has been able to show any necessity for an increase of our standing Army. Let me say there never were better rules and regulations established for the army of any country than those established by our fathers for the Army of this country. That Army has been marshaled and successfully sustained and upheld under those rules and regulations. Those relations have been accorded by the people of the old continentin reference to Military government to be as perfect in theory an application as those of any country in the wor.