Mr. HALE. I do not proposeto discuss at length the bill which is here introduced, and which is laid upon our desks this DOIDIDKI‘OI‘ I do not yield for any sezs the 1st time. It has been in my hands for perhaps 3 minutes; and that is the only opportunity I have had for examining its‘ provisions. I have the honor to represent a district which probably has today within its lim its more men and widows who will be entitled to pensions should this bill pass than in any other district in the U.S. My district is a frontier district, lying upon Lake Cham plain, the whole population of which on able of bearing arms served during the war 0 1812 in repelling the repeated attempted invasions of the British on that frontier. I apprehend that today the same style of men are a undant in that district. And I have yet to hear the 1st application from those fighting men of my constituenc tbr the passage of such a bill as that now iin er consideration. I have yet to learn that at this time, when the count is burdened with such a weight of debt, with the heavy expenses which must necessarily continue for many years to come, they are prepared to ask for pensions to an extent which Wlll involve an annual expenditure of not less than $10,000,000 a year forsomeyears to come; and, as I believe, not less than $16,000,000 a year. The cry is raised that these soldiers of the war of 1812 should be put upon the same footing as the soldiers of the late civilWar. Now, I call upon members to bear in mind that without this bill they stand upon precisely the same footing. Those who were disabled in the service of the war of 1812and the widows of those who lost their liVes in that service are now entitled to precisely the same bounties and to all the privileges that are conferred upon the soldiers of the war through which we have just passed. I ask the Gentfrom Pennsyl vania [Mr. Corrso'rn] if he re oses to do equal justice to the officers and)so diers of the last war, the war through which we have just passed. Is he prepared to rep'ort a bill which shall give to them the same libeiality, make for them the same previsions that this bill makes for the soldiers of the war of 1812?.