Mr. SCHENCK.Mr. Speaker, I desire to say, in all candor, that the result of this conference is better than I expected. The gentleman who has made the report has certainly stated fairly the fact that in most of the details of the bill the views of the House prevail, and that in various sections following that which provides for the a regate force of the Army, the bill correspon s in a good degree, and in deed I might say almost exactly, with the bill which this morning my colleague upon the committee [Mr. Parse] and myself desired to submit to the House as a compromise. The only int as to which there has been a material diggrence between the 2 Houses, and in regard to which the House, by this report, has made a considerable concession to the Senate, is with reference to the Veteran Reserve corps. As gentlemen of the House are aware, the House has shown throughout a determination to insist upon some provision for wounded officers and men who are still capable of military duty. Hence, on each occasion when we have adopted a bill, we have provided for ten regiments, to be called the Veteran Reserve corps, to be made up of wounded or disabled men from all branches of the service, and to be officered by wounded or disabled officers. By this compromise the Veteran Reserve corps is cut down to 4 regiments. But then it must be remembered that while we give up 4 regiments of colored infantry, we gain, upon the last bill passed by the House, 2 regiments of colored cavalry. 2 out of the 4 regiments of cavalry are to be colored. There is another material concession to the Senate in allowing the conversion of the present 9 large regiments of infantry, organized at the beginning of the war, into 37 regiments, by adding 2 companies to each battalion. It is for the House to determine whether these changes are so material as to warrant the rejection of the report of the committee of conference, which would doubtless result in our having no Army bill whatever. I repeat that so far as concerns the mine r'details and although mine r the are not unimportant, for they relate to the a vantages to be given to the volunteer forces the views of the House have been maintained successfully by the last committee of conference, according to what had been agreed upon by the 1st committee of conference in those particulars. I will not, for one, oppose the adoption of this report.