Mr. tlDDLE. Mr. President, these extra neousquestions, I think, should not be lugged into a cbate on so important a matter as this. On a former occasion, some da s since, I expressed my views upon this bill, and told the Senate that I won d discuss it hereafter if necessary. That discussion I think now unnecessary. I then said, and I intend to adhere to it at present, that I would vote for the amendment of the Senfrom Iowa, and if that amendment should be adopted I would vote for the bill. I infinitely prefer now the motion of the hofiorable Senfrom missouri, and why?What is the reason for it? It is to enable us to winnpw the wheat from the chatl. It has been shown us that some of these allowances ought to be made and some ought not to be made. Now give us time to examine into this matter. There is no me chanic sufferin from this delay; the mechan ics are all paid off; and I venture to assert, and challenge contradiction, that nearly every one, if not ev one, of the gentlemen who made these co tracts had made a fortuneout of the Government before he lost something on these contracts. It was their own option that they took the contracts. They made their contracts with their sub contractors before they assumed the great contract, and if they lose on one and we are comelled to compensate them for that loss, should) they not, With the same propriety, come back and pay us the excess of what they made upon the others? Would not that be justice? Vould not that be fair to the Government? The details which are cited by Senators on this floor are com)aratively unimportant. If these gentlemen have just claims upon the Government, let them presem their claims to the Court of Claims; or, if they prefer it, let them bring their individual cases before the Senate, and have themexamined upon their merits. I may vote, perhaps, for all of them; certainly for some; but let us have the just claims presented separately from the unjust claims. I am not going to discuss this question; but I repeat now what I have said ere tofore, that if we are going to make this allow ance, if we are going to open the door, there will he no closin it. As was remarked by the Senfrom NewHampshire, why cannot your wagon makers come in for an additional allowance? Why cannotyour contractors who contracted to deliver hay for 20 dollars a ton and had to give 30 dollars for it come in for additional pay? Where are you going to stop? That is the question. My plan is to postpone the subject, or rather it is the plan of the Senfrom Missouri, and I shall vote for that with all my heart. I trust the Senate will postpone the bill in order that we may winnow out the wheat from the chaff.