Mr. BANKS. I will answer the gentleman by making a statement. The report is signed by but 2 members of the committee. I was a pointed upon the committee late in the session of this day, without any previous knowl edge of the subject. The committee on the part of the Houseinsisted upon the recognition of the bounty for the soldiers as a sine qua non. The Senate committee was not authorized to accept it, but reported to the Senate and asked forinstructions. They received instructions, in pursuance of which they assented to the demand of the House on the question of bounty, and the result is the revision which is embraced in this report. an whichI think is entirely satisfactory to the friends of the bounty. I believe it is carefully drawn and will be found to he as just as any simple proposition can be to the soidiers and to the Government. The 2nd proosition relates to the compensation of members. These 2 were the only matters upon which the committee delib erated. It was not until the very last moment, certainly within 45 minutes, that I was called upon to decide, not upon this question merely. but upon the question whether there should be an agreement on the part of the 2 committees on this subject and my difficulty was increased from the fact that the House had been waiting a very long time and that the hour for the close of the session was near at hand. If clt constrained to yield my judgment to the wishes of the committee with which I was in conference. I ought to say that the committee of the senate Can it not be did not deem as a sinequa non-the passage of this propoition in regard to salaries, but they expressed the strongest belief that any other proposition than the 2 coupled together would be unsatisfactory to the Senate, and they had supposedfrom what had transpired between the 2 committees and what he been stated to the Senate, that the House would accede to the provision in regard to the salaries. At the last moment I was called ii on to decide. It was left for me to say whether I would leave the committee room and report an entire disagreement on this question or assent to the reposition. Thereupon Itook the responsi Bility of nssenting to the Senate’s proposition. Had the affair been in my management at the commencement of the conference I should not have reported it. Being called upon to decide it he last moment, I thought it my duty to report it, and I have signed. with my colleague on the other side, [Mr. Nini.iiex, ] this re art. The chairman of the committee [Mr. “1ILSON, of Iowa, ] has not signed it. LH; WILSON, of Iowa. Will the gentleman is Y y Mr. BANKS. Iwant to move the previous qliiestion, but I will listen to my colleague on t ic committee.