Mr. PIKE. It appears from the Navy Register that the ay of colonel commandant now is $3, 186. his bill proposes to make him a briadier general. A brigadier generals pay in ashington, includin commutation for for ave, is about 6thonsan 200 dollars. This bill would, therefore, very nearly double his pay, and, as the Gentfrom Iowa [ML WILSON] very truly says, the pay of this officer, who is stationed in Washington, would be 2 or 300 dollars more than the pay of Vice Admiral Farragut. It is proposed now to amend the bill so as to give him he barren rank of brigadier general without the pay of one. He might just as well be a brevet brigadier as to be a brigadier and not have the ay. Further than that, it is making an invi ious distinction between a brig adier of the Marine corps and a brigadier of the Army, and at the next session of Congress we shall have a bill brought in here for the purpose of equalizing the pay. That is the customary mode of sliding up these things. I have no doubt but the whole pay of the Army and Navy ought to be rearranged. The pay of the Navy is definite and distinct, and it is not difficult, by looking at the Navy Regis ter, to ascertain the pay of any naval officer; but it is almost impossible to ascertain the pay of an Army officer. It is a work of time, patience, skill, and experience. It is well suggested to me that ou must be u to all the edges to get at what Mr. Mantihni used to call the “ emnition total” of the pay of an Army officer. [Laughter] I know that our committee has examined the subject time and time again, and whether we finally got at the right amount of pay received by Army officers or not, I do not know. At any rate, wehave arrived at the conclusion that a brigadier General in the Army received some 62 or 6300 dollars, which is a very respectable sum even in the present “ irredeem:le” papercurrency. Now, for one, Iam in favor of equalizing the pay of the Army and Navy. There is no reason in the world why a naval officer holding equal rank should not receive the same pay as an Army Officer. I hope, however, that we shall take up the subject as a whole, and not in piecemea.