Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, if this bill is to be recommitted. speaking for myself only as a member of the ComNavAffrs, I hope the suggestion of the honorable Senfrom California will prevail and that it may go to the ComClaims or some other committee. I hhve not deemed it necessary to participate at all in the discussion, not because I had not examined the claims sufficiently to satisfy myself, but because I saw the bill was being discussed by other Senators more competent to do justice to the case, and perhaps more familiar with the subject. My own convictions upon the subject from the examination I have given the case are very clear. My mind is made up very conclusively on the merits of these claims. Therefore I do not think it is justice to the Senate to recommit the bill to the Naval Committee, if the other members of the committee feel toward the claims as I do. I trust that if it is recommitted at all, the suggestion of the Senfrom California may prevail, and I know of no better committee to which it could go than the ComcClaims. I am satisfied that although there may be a difference in the merit of these different claims, there is not a claimant in the billmentioned that is not justly and honestly, before the country and the Senate, entitled tomore than the bill will give him. In reference to the difficulty in regard to the form of the bill, I have not been able to see the oint in the objection made. I think there can e no more difficulty because several claims are included in the bill than there would be in the case of the naval appropriation bill or any other general appropriation bill which contains many distinct appropriations for various objects. The report upon these claims.is distinct and separate; teclaims themselves are set forth separately in the bill; and it is just as easy to modify anyone of the claims or to strike it from the bill entirely as it would be to modify an appropriation bill or to strike it from the bill entirely. I do not think that the honorable Senfrom NewHampshire has done the subeom mittee of the Naval Committee justice when he urges upon the Senate that cases contain.4; less merit than others are included in the whole. in an omnibus bill, for the purpose of carryin through those that may have less merit t a others. It is hardly just to the Naval Committee to say that they would allow themselves to become the instruments of reporting any bill or any claim to the Senate that they did not believe to be deserving of merit and which they did not believe ought to passed be by the Senate. I conclude these remarks without goinginto any examination. I hope the suggestion of the Senfrom California may prevail, and that if the bill is to be recommitted it will go to the ComClaims or some other committee. I do not want it recommitted my self, I have no desire of that kind.