Mr. SHERMAN. Before this JtResolution is referred, I wish to call the attention of the Senate to the extraordinary character of the facts stated in the papers accompanying it, which I present with it. It seems that a person who has actually served in the rebel army, neting as aid to General Tilghman, in Kentucky, in the early stages of the war, and who during the whole war has been under the surveillance of the Government, who has worn the rebel uniform, is now a cadet at Annapolis in the Naval Academy of the U.S. under the law as it now stands there is no restraint upon the power of a member of Congress to nominate a cadet; at least if there is such a restraint it is not usually exercised. The papers in this case disclose clearly that a young man who is now being educated at the exeuee of the Government entered into the robe ser 1 vice at the beginning of the war; that at a later period of the war he was arrested as a spy; that he was discharged. probably on account of his youth, but was continually under the surveillance of the Government until the war closed, when he was appointed a cadet at the Naval Academy, and is now there. The papers further show that one of the apilicants for this position was the son of General dairies Jackson, one of the most loyal and true men in the country, who was killed I think at the battle of Perryville an exmember of congress, a man of the highest character,:1proved hero and statesman. His son was an applicant for I the same position. That discretionary powr which would enable a man who has fought against his country to be selected as a cadet to be educated at the expense of the Government in preference to the son of a man who gave his life to the service of his country, it seems to me, ought to be taken away. The JtResolution, therefore, provides that Wheeler, theyoun man who has been a pointed, shall be remove from the Naval Aca em, and that hereatler no one shall be apointe either in the Military or Naval Aca emy, who has taken part in this rebellion.