Mr. HENDRICKS. Then I move to amend the bill by inserting after the word “ field, ” in line 13 of section 4,the words, “and ten of said regiments shall be officered by officers to be selected from the Veteran Reserve corps.” On this proposition I have but a word or 2 to submit to the Senate. The Government has induced these men to expect that they would be provided for. A corps was organized, intended originally, I believe, to consist of 20 regiments; and those men supposed that in that cors or some successor to that corps they won] be provided for. They have lived upon that hope since the close of the war; and Itink they ought not to be disappointed unless the necessities of the public serviceshall require it. Iknow of no authority of the Dept or of any of the great commanders of the Army against the continuance of their seryices in the Army. I am not prepared to salwhat have been the precise recommendations in regard to them; but I have understood that the commanders of the Army have given the Opinion that they can be well used; and it would seem quite reasonable to suppose that in an Army, to consist of from 60 to 80,000 men, 10,000 of them may be commanded by men who have received wounds in the service. Some of the most successful and best officers of the Army have been wounded men. The fact that a man has a disabling wound does not take from him the ability to serve the country in a command. Some wounds would of course produce that result; butin the organization of this corps, which is now about to go out of existence by the passage of this law, I so pose selections were made with a view to the ability of the parties selected to render service. I am sure there is a greal deal of service in the Army which can be rendered by these men. They take a great deal of interest in the question; I have received letters from members of the corps from Indiana, and I sympathize with them in the interest that they express. Many of them who are competent now and able to command their companies, some of them reiments, are disabled from making a support or themselves and their families by the pursuits which they followed before they went into the Arm. They are reluctant to go upon the pension Iist; they feel that that is a ounty, that it is a humiliating position; and they prefer makinga support for themselves and their families by rendering service to the country. Now, if it is possible to provide for them consistently with the interests and safety of the country, we ought to do it. I know of no reason why we cannot do it. I thought that the bill brought before the body by the ComMilAffrs had provied for 8 regiments to be officered by the officers of the Veteran Reserve CPHPPS: but I do not find that provision in this I.