Mr. MORRILL. I will not object, with the understanding that it will take no time. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S.No.158) to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of the Treasurer of the U.S., and to secure certain moneys to the people of the U.S., or to the persons to whom they are due, and who are entitled to receive the same, was read the 2nd time as in ComWhole. It provides that all amounts of moneys that are represented by certificates, drafts, or checks, issued by the Treasurer of the U.S., or by any disbursing officer of any Dept of the Government of the U.S., upon the Treasurer or any Asst Treasurer, or designated depositary of the U.S., or upon any national bank desig nated as a de ository of the U.S., and which shalT be represented on the books of either such Offices as standing to the credit of any disbursing otheer, and bearing date prior to July 1, 1863, and which were issued to facilitate the payment of warrants, or for any other nrpose in liquidation of a debt due from the TU.S., which may remain outstanding on the 1st of July, 1866, shall be deposited by the Treasurer of the U.S., to be covered into the Treasury by warrant, and to be carried to the credit of the parties in whose favor such certificates, drafts, or checks were respectively issued, or to the persons who are entitled to receive pay there or, and into an appropriation account, to be denominated “outstanding liabilities.” The certificate of the Register of the Treasury, stating that the amount of any draft issued by the Treasurer of the U.S. to facilitate the payment of a warrant directed to him for payment, and which may have so remained Outstanding and unpaid for 3 years or more and which shall have been thus deposited and covered into the Treasury, is authorized to be, when attached to any such warrant, a sufficient voucher in satisfaction of any such warrant or part of any warrant, the same as if the drafts correctly indorsed and fully satisfied were at tached to such warrant or part of warrant and all such moneys are to remain as a permanent appropriation for the redemption and payment of all such outstanding and unpaid certificates, drafts, and checks. The payee, or the bone fide holder of any such draft or check, the amount of which has been so deposited and covered into the Treasury, on presenting it to the properofficer of the Treasury, is to be entitled to have it paid by the settlement of an account and the issuing of a warrant in his favor, according to the radtice in other cases of authorized and liqui ated claims against the U.S. At the termination of every fiscal year, after this act begins to operate, its provisions are to a pl to all similar certificates, drafts, and choc s which shall then have for 3 ears or more remained outstanding, unsatisfie, and unpaid, and to all disbursing odicers accounts that shall have so remained unchanged. The amounts, except such as are provided for in the 1st section of this bill, of) the accounts of every kind of disbursing officer of the Government of the U.S. which have remained unchanged or which shall not have been increased by any new deposit thereto, nor decreased by dra ts drawn thereon, for the space of 3 years, are in like manner to be covered into the Treasury, to the properaipropriation to which they may belong, and the amounts on the certificate of the Treasurer of the U.S. that such amount has been deposited in the Treasury, are to be credited by the properaccounting officer of the Treasury on the books of the Treasury Dept, to the Officer in whose name it had stood on the books of any agency of the Treasury, if it shall be made to up car that he is entitled to such credit or the purpose of giving force and effect to the full intent and meaning of this act, it is to be the duty of the Treasurer, and of all Asst Treasurers, and of all designated depositaries of the U.S., and of the cashiers of all national banks designated as such depositories, to report to the SecyTreasury, at the close of business on the 30th of June next, and in like manner at the close of business on every 30th day of June thereafter, the condition of every such account so standing on the books of their respective offices, stating the name of each depositor, respectively, with his official desig nation, the total amount so remaining on de posit to his credit, and the dates, respectively, of the last creditand the lnstdebit made to each of such accounts, respectively and it is to be the duty of every and each disbursing officer in any and every Dept of the Government of the U.S. to make a like return of all checks issued by such Officer, and which may then have been outstanding and unpaid for 3 years and more, stating fully in such report the name of the payee, for what purpose given, the office on which drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, and the date, number, and amount for which it was drawn, and, when known, the residence of the payee.