Mr. WILSON. I am directed by the ComMilAffrs to report back without amendment the bill (H.R.No. 788) to establish and protect national cemeteries; and I ask for its present consideration. By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill. The 1st section provides that in the arrangement of the national cemeteries in the States lately in rebellion and in the DistCol, established for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, the SecyWar shall have them inclosed with a good and substantial stone or iron fence; and hereafter such cemeteries are to be laid out in sections, to contain not less than 200 nor more than 300 graves; and to each section there shall be erected a marble or granite monument on which shall beinscribed the name of each soldier buried in such section, with his rank, number of his regiment, his company, and State. The 2nd section provides that each grave shall be marked with a small marble or cast iron headstone, with the number of the grave thereon corresponding with the number oppo site to the name of the party inscribed on the monument. And national cemeteries already established are to be made to conform, as far as practicable, to the foregoing plan. ection 3 directs the SecyWar to erect at the principal entrance of each of these national cemeteries a suitable building to be occupied as a porter's lodge, and to detail a meritorious trustworthy sergeant to reside therein for the purpose of guarding and protecting the cemetery and giving information to parties visiting it. The Secretary is also to detail some officer of the Army, not under the rank of colonel, to visit annually all of the cemeteries, and to inspect and report to him their condition and the amount of money necessary to protect, them, to sod the graves gravel and grade the walks and avenues, an to keep the sections and grounds in full and complete order; and the Secretary is to transmit the report to Congress at the commencement of each session, together with an estimate of the appropriation necessary for the purpose. By section 4 any person who shall will fully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure, in any of the national ceme teries, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break, injure, or remove any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any of them shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any district or circuit court of the U.S. within any State or district where any of the cemeteries are situated, shall be liable to a fine of not less than 25 nor more than 100 dollars, or to imprisonment of not less than 15 nor more than 60 days, according to the nature and aggravation of the offense. And the sergeant, or other officer on guard, in charge of any national cemetery, is to have authority to arrest forthwith any person engaged in commit ting any misdemeanor thus prohibited, and to bring such person before any U.S. commissioner or judge of any district or circuit court of the U.S. within any State or district where any of the cemeteries are sit uated, for the purpose of holding the person to answer for the misdemeanor. The 5th section proposes to make it the duty of the SecyWar to purchase from the owner or owners thereof, at such price as may be mutually agreed upon between them and the Secretary, such real estate as in his judgment is suitable and necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the bill, and to obtain from the owner or owners title in fee simple. In case the SecyWar shall not be able to agree with the owner or owners of any real estate needed for the purpose of the act upon the price to be aid therefor, or to obtain from them title in ee simple, he may enter upon and appropriate any real estate which, in his judgment, is suit able and necessary for the purposes of the act. By the 6th section the SecyWar, or the owner or owners of any real estate thus entered upon and appropriated, may make application for an appraisement of the real estate thus entered upon and oto any district or circuit court within any State or district where the real estate is situated; and those courts upon such application, and in such mode and under such rules and regulations as they may adopt, are to make a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of the several interests of each and every owner of the real estate and improvements thereon entered upon and appropriated for the purposes of the act. The 7th section provides that the fee simple of all real estate thus entered upon and appropriated for the purposes, of the act, and of which appraisement, shall have been made under the order and direction of the courts, shall, upon payment to the owner or owners respectively of the appraised value, or in case the owner or owners refuse or neglect for 30 days after the appraisement of the cash value to demand the same from the SecyWar upon depositing it in the proper court to the credit of the owner or owners respectively, be vested in the U.S.; and its jurisdiction over this real estate shall be exclusive and the same as its jurisdiction over real estate purchased, or appropriated for the purposes of navy yards, forts, and arsenals. The SecyWar is to pay to the several owner or owners othe appraised value of the several pieces or parcels of real estate as specified in the appraisement of the courts, or to pay into court by deposit the appraised value; and the sum necessary for.purpose may be taken from any moneys appropriated for the purposes of the act. The 8th section appropriates $50,000 to carry out the purposes of the act.