Mr. SCHENCK. I move to amend the amendment by adding the following: But u vpeancicsmay occur in the Gradesof major and captain in this Deptno appointments to fill the saineshall bomadeuntilthenuniberof major! shall bereducedto 12 and thenumberofcuptains to 30, and thereafter the number of offioers in each of said urades shall continue to conform to said reducednumbers. The amendment proposed by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [MLTHAYB and accepted by the Gentfrom NewYork[ML DAVIS] in lieu of one he had otiered does not conform, asI will hereafter show, to what was recommended by the military cflicers to which this matter was submitted. There has been a great deal of misapprehension upon that matter, which has been persistently pressed upon this House, all of which I mean to clear up by the record. But I confine myself now to proposing to Amend the substitute by adding to itt at which I have read, and which is contained in the original section, eventually reducing the number of those officers with a view to carding against the continued increase of the orce in the quar termasters Dept, and brin ng it down, even in case the substitute should be adopted, to the point to which the committee think it should be brought, by legislation looking to the future sufficieucy of the quartermasters Dept. Now, I have already said to this House that there has been a continued effort made to increase the number of officers and to increase their rank in the different bureaus or staff donrtments stationed here at Washington and I have said to the House that I was prepared to eitpect that, whenever any committee felt it their duty to report against this gradual prog ress in the increase of numbers, rank, and pay in these staff Depts, than would be a general outery from those Depts, which would be felt in its influence upon this House; and, as I once before said, that influence has gone far beyond my expectations. This House has already passed a on the Adjutant Generals Dept, an has added 2 colonels and one lieutenant colonel beyond what was ever recommended by anybody outside of this House, and beyond what was asked for by the Adjutant Generals Dept itsolf. That the House has alread one.