Mr. ROGERS. This bill does not propose at all to educate, but simply to establish a bureau for the purpose of keeping a set of men at the capital a Commissioner with a salary of $5,000, a chiefclerk witha salary of $2,000, another with $1, 800, another with $1, 600, another with $1, 400, and another at $1, 200; and all this expense is to be borne by the government, whicliis now wei hed down by heavy taxation. Sir, when gentfemen on the other side stand up and talk about the finances of the country being in such a deplorable condition, when they are unwilling to vote to the soldier who has defended the Government the bounty to which he is justly entitled, they have no right at such a time to come and ask us to establish an institution of this character, one never talked, thought, or dreamed of before at any time in the history of the country. When we reach such a state of finances that we can establish such an educational institution then it will be time enough to do it. But let us 1st pay off the bond holders who are holding $3, 500,000,000 exempt from taxation, or put the bonds in such a shape that they may be taxed. Let as clear ourselves of debt and establish a financial system on a solid basis before we inflict upon this country another bureau not quite so great in magnitude as the Freedmen’s Bureau, but oneof the same, kind and character, according to the speech made by the gentleman who preceded me, [Mr. DONNELLY. The gentleman talks about educating the peeple of the South, as though they were a set of men who had no education, learning, or intelligence. Sir, when he defames them by saying this he defames his country. I am here to say that they have intelligence in the South, and that the intelligent classes there are those who are responsible for bringing this rebellion upon the country, and not the uneducated classes who were dravged into the movement. It was such men asancey, Slidell, and those that were at the head of aTTairs who drove the people into rebellion, and not the deluded masses.