Mr. SCHENCK. I propose very briefly. as many gentlemen request it, to state the differences between the substitute and the original bill. 1st, as to the original bill I shall say nothing, because it has been printed and on the tables of gentlemen for some time past. The 1st change made in the bill is in the 1st section, at the close, where in limiting the direction to be given to this bounty to mine r children, there is added the further clause that it shall be given only to those who are under 16 years of age. The idea (if the committee was that in this country when children arrive at the age of 16they are able to obtain some kind of employment sufficient at least to sustain themselves. It is in conformity with the pension law, limiting the extension of the bountyto those mine rs only who are under 16 years of age. It. saves many millions of dollars, though that was not the exclusive object. hurls 2,:q, In the 2nd section the concluded, in their revision, to insert a provision that there should be taken into the computation, in order to determine whether a man had a sufficient bounty, whatever he had received from local authorities or from local voluntary associations got up by subscription for the purpose of relieving from the drafl by putting men in the Army.This some gentlemen have so riousl objeCted to. The reasons which prevaile with the committee were these: in the 1st place, there is a fairness about it. A man comes forward and asks to be put, as far as possible, upon the same footing as others that is, to get under the provisions of this bill $800 at least for his SGIVICBBin the Army, in addition to his pay and other allowances. The Government which he approaches in this way says to him, through its officials, “How much have you received from various sources?” If he has already received over $800, which is what we propose to give, it is not a case of peculiar har shi. In dispensing this bounty we should not anything to the sum already paid where a man has received $300. All we promise is to make up the bounty to $300. Now, that will fall not hardly on those who entered the Army late in the war and got all the local bounties for it so happens that those who got the local bounties got also the bounty from the Government and are outside of the revisions of this bilL The truth is that the hill only applies to and affords help to those who enlisted in 1861 or in the early part of 1802 throughout the whole Union. Those who went into the Army in 1861 or early in 1862 got little or no bounty of any kind, and got from the General Government only either $100 or nothing at all. Now. to those who received nothing this bill gives $300, and to those who received $100 enough to make up the amount to $800. Later on in the war large local bounties were paid, while at the same time the Government of the U.S. was paying bounties. such men are out off from the operation of this bill.