Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, this case.which strikes me as an extraordinary one, is in my judgment just; and it will give me great pleas ure to vote for the report of the majority of the committee, and I think the time has now come in the affairs of the country when we should turn our attention to those who have labored in defense of the Union when our Government was sorely imperiled. I am told, sir, that this family of McCook, consisting of ten, had all of its male members engaged in this war. I believe thatit isa sacred trust confided to us to reward the widows and orphans our brave soldiers have left behind them. It is our duty to do so for the invaluable services the soldiers have rendered the country. We are spending millions of dollars for purposes not half so humane, not half so s charitable, as that which is here proposed to but gentlemen must recollect that there are a those who have shown so much bravery as this, 100,000other families that have pIe Cook family. It wasproposed thatthe Govii suffered just as much consequent upon thisernment shOuld be put to an expense of over 1 rebellion. 50 million dollars annually to keep up a Freedmcus Bureau for the support O ring. The Gentfrom Iowa who prell It is said that the McCook family have cona class of, tributed the entire male portion of it to the persons who are unwilling to earn their own Army of the U.S. I I can tell gentlemen that there are 1,000s of families that ceded me was willing to vote that, while he is have done the same thing in various parts of unwilling to vote for this small sti end to a family whom members have behave so gallantly in defense of the Union. I am not only not afraid to vote for this proposition for this oor woman, but I am willingtosupport the wi ows l and orphans left behind by our brave soldiers. I am willing also to grant bounty, so far as the financial condition of the country will allow to all of our brave soldiers who have periled their lives during the war while other men were sitting at their ease in safe places.