Mr. SCHENCI. Mr. Speaker, everybody knows the patriotism of Iowa as a State, and the patriotic course of her citizens, to say nothing of the patriotic gentlemen here who so ably represent or on this floor. But the ComMilAffrs felt constrained to report adversely upon the bill referred to them, to pay this 37th Iowa volunteer regiment their bountyvsimply upon the round of the information derived by correspondence with the War Dept as to the terms under which the enlistment of these men was offered. It is true that reporting as we did, the 30 7th Iowa would not receive the $100bounty given at that time to those who enlisted. It is equally true, however, that they were taken into the service with the understanding that they were not to receive that $100 bounty. In this respect they are in precisely the same condition with various other troops who have served their country and served their country well. And to go no further for an illustration, I will take the 100 days’ men, some 38,000 of whom came from my own State, and as many more in the aggregate from other States of this Union, and who were supplied to the Government and mustered into service in a time of great emergency, thus enabhn GenlGrant to carry on his campaign o 1864, and which without them would perhaps have been a failure. There is, however, a bill which has passed this House and gone to the Senate for concurrence, which I trust it will obtain, equalizing the bounties of all soldiers who have actually rendered service to the Government. That bill proposes that every soldier, sailor, or marine who has actually performed such service, shall receive bounty at the rate of 8 and 1/3rd dollars permonth for the time they were actually employed during the period embraced between the commencement and the cessation of hostilities, covering a period of 4 years. That bill, if it shall pass, will embrace these Iowa troops; it will also take in the 100 days’ men, and it will also take in as well those who were employed under peculiar circumstances, agreeing with the authorities and for themselves that they would not demand bounty, as those to whom bounty has been secured by existing law.