Mr. DAVIS. I know, sir, that there are officers who went into the Veteran Reserve corps when they might have gone to the front, men whose woundsdiad been healed. I know officers in the Army who look with distrust upon many persons who entered the Veteran Reserve cors. I know one gallant officer from in own district who, with awound of an inch an a half Indiameter through his body, with a seton in the wound and entirely through his body, went with Shermans army day and night from Tennessee to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the coast, fighting on the mountains above the clouds, and never went to the hospital on account of his wound except when he was in camp. But there are many men in the Veteran Reserve corps who entered it for the easy places in it. Now, if there are some individuals in these bureaus who have been willing themselves to avoid danger, I can only say that it is in accordance with the weakness of human nature. But the men of this Dept have worked day and night, for I have seen them at their desks day after day and night after night, until phys ical nature was almost exhausted and in someinstance s I have implored them to go away upon the furlough which the SecyWar was willing to grant them. But no, they remained faithfully at their duties, although they ressingly entreated to be relieved from duty here and allowed to go to the field. In looking over the lists of officers in the Dept, I find that of the asst quarterMGens now on service here, alarge proportion of them have seen service in the field, and some of them have been wounded and disabled in the service and you will not find in any Dept more faithful, efficient, and hard workin officers than the Adutant General himself, or than his assts, ardee, Brock, Vincent, and others. [know personally many of the men in this Dept; and I do not know one of them who has not rendered ellicient and faithful service in the field. I trust, therefore, that we shall not, by the legislation we adopt here, do an injustice to these men. But I hope we shall e allowedto have the Army bill which was commended to us by the General iu Chief, and by all our prominent generals.