Mr. WILSON. I will so to the Senfrom Delaware that we piovi c by law what the fee shall be for collecting pensions, and that act was passed 3 or 4 years ago. “7e allow ten dollars to anyl person who collects a pension for a soldier or is heirs. This act puts claims for bounty and back pay on the same footing as claims for pensions in that respect. I do not think there is any doubt whatever that we had the power to pass the act in rerd to pensions. We also passed an act, it will be the membered, fixing the fee for surgeons certificates, and I do not think no body doubts that we had that power. I do not doubtthat we have this power, and further than all, that we have power to prevent any private person doing this usiness, and to appomt agents of the Government, if we please, for the purpose; and I am not sure that that is not the only properway. If the Government should appoint in every State an agent to do this business, and fix the fees for doing it, and put the person under bonds to have it faithfull done, it might be the best way of doing the ting). Mr. President, no ody can measure the wrongs and outrages that have been perpetrated upon the soldiers of this country byt eseagents. I have received this morning, in my morning mail, 2 letters. One of our officers, a revenue collector in the State of NewYork, writes me that in his own town, to his own personal knowl edge, an agent charged a poor soldier $150 for collecting $300. A gentleman writes me from Brooklyn, NewYork, in regard to a case that happened in December, since Congress met, that one of these agents charged $51 62 for collectin a claim for the mother of a dead soldier; an he says further, and gives the names, that certain agents within his knowledge have their agents here, and he gives me the name of a person employed by the Government here who is an agent for one of those persons to find out the value of the claims. I intend to have hisdname put in the hands of the properOfficer toa. I ligpe that we shall put a cute for collecting the claims and bounties of soldiers on the same footing that we put the agents for collecting pensions. I think it right. It is a protection to the people, and we certainly oughtto protect them. If such a measure had been passod years ago, it would have protected soldiers and their heirs, probably to the amount of 100s of 1,000s of dollars.