Mr. WILSON. I move to take up Senate bill No. 88, to restrict the expenses of collecting soldiers claims against the government. The motipn was agreed to; and the bill (S.No.88) to restrict the expenses of collecting soldiers claims against the Government was considered as in ComWhole. The bill provides that the fees of agents and attorneys or making out and causing to be execute the papers necessary to establish any claim o any commissioned officer or enlisted man of the regular Arm, voluntecrs, or militia forces when called into the service of the U.S., and for collecting such claim for bounty, arrears of ay, or other allowances, shall in no case excec ten dollars: but the expenses in curred in acknowledging the necessary allida vits in such claims before a notary public, justice of the peace, or other public officer, are to be defrayed by the claimant, but in no case to exceed the actual amount established by law for such acknowledgments. Any agent or attorney who shall directly or indirectly demand or receive any greater compensation for his services in the collection of any claim for bounty, arrears of pay, or other allowances, or who shall contract, a e to prosecute, or collect any such claim, on the condition that he shall receive a%. upon any portion of it, or who shall wrongfully wrth hold the payment of the proceeds to the claimant is to be deemed gui ty of a misdemeanor, an upon conviction to be fined not exceeding $300, or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding 2 years, or both, according to the circumstances and aggravations of the offense., The 1st amendment reported bv the ComMilAffr and the Militia was in section one, line 5, after the word “any” to strike out “ commissioned officer or, ” and after the word “man” to insert “or heirs of any enlisted man;” so as to read: That the fees of agents and attorneys for making out and causingto be executed the papers necessary to establishan claim of any qnliste man of the regular Army. vo unteers or militia forces, &c.