Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, I wish, with the permission of the House, to state on be half of the Military Committee the present condition of the bill to reorganize the Army; and also to make a proposition to the House which perhaps will solve the difficulty in which we are situated. I had an interview the other day, upon invitation, with the SecyWar and Lieutenant GenlGrant; and I learned from them, and particularly from the Lieutenant General, what I also well understand, the pressing necessity just now of having some action in relation to the reorganization or increase of the Army, with the view of supplyinga need for troops. The enlist inents have already gone up to the utmost capacity of the present Army, and there are not troops enough for the purp'oses of the Government. All the white volunteer troops have been mustered out, or have been ordered to be mustered out, and will soon be altogether gone from the service; and there are not now many of the black troops remaining. The condition of the legislative question on the subject is this. The Senate passed a bill and sent it to the House. A bill reported from the ComMilAHairs of this House, and peiidii in the House at the same time was rejeete, recommitted and again reported back to the House, passed by the House, and was sent to the Senate. So there is a bill of the House now in the Senate, and a bill of the Senate now in the House. In the mean time, as we learn by our files, there have been several successive bills brought forward in the Senate, and I believe the other day, and since the bill of the House was passed and sent to the senate, the 5th bill was produced by the chair man of the Military Committee in that branch. From this I infer an indisposition on the part of the Military Committee of the Senate to take up and pass any bill which is a House bill. It seems to me to be preferred that whatever bill is passed shall be abill of the Senate. This may be because it is desired to have the credit of the origination of the bill, or it may be something else. I know not what it is, and it is of no consequence in one sense; for I am ready to say, in behalfof the Military Committee of the House, that we do not care where the bill originates, whether in the Senate or in the House, so that it only contains, as its substance, that which lias our approval, and which is sanctioned by the action of the House. There is a means of bringing this matter speedily to some sort of conclusion. I am authorized by the ComMilAffrs of the House to make a proposition to the House; and that proposition is, to ask permission to report back now the Senate bill, to move as a substitute for it the bill which has been framed by the House, call the previous question, and pass the bill and send it to the Senate. Then they will have 2 bills before them, one a Senate bill amended by the House, and the other a House bill, and each embodying what the House has agreed to after a long discussion. I now ask permission to report the bill of the Senate back to the House, move the House bill as a substitute for it, move the previous question upon it at once, pass it, and send it bac to the Senate. The effect would be this, as a matter of course: each House acting upon one or the other bill, no matter which so it be the same bill in each branch, whatever may be the disa reeing votes of the 2 Houses, would be brought to a committee of conference, and so the matter definitely disposed of.