Mr. NESMITH. The Senfrom Iowa, in discussing this question, alludes to the transportation on railroads. Many cases of the in sufficiencv of the mileage now allowed have come under my observation. I know that during the war officers who were compelled to travel even by the railroads suffered very reatly from the insufficiency of the mileage. The mileage allowed them of 6 cents a mile did not pay for their transportation and subsistence while traveling. But the travel of otheers on duty is not confined to the region of country where there are railroads. We have immense Territories. Colorado, NewMexico, Arizona, and all the Territories of the Northwest, stretching across to the Pacific. A great deal of the travel of officers on duty is confined to those Territories, and perhaps most ofit. In those Territories you cannot travel on ten cents a mile. The usual stage charge amounts to 20 cents a mile, without saying anything about subsistence, when traveling. An increase of the mileage to ten cents per mile, taking travel by railroad together with travel through that mountaine us country, and beyond the confines of civilization, where there are no roads, I think will not on the average make it equal to the actual expense of traveling. I think where transportation is not furnished in kind they should have ten cents. I know it will not anything like pay the expenses of those who are compelled to travel over the immense deserts in the interior, where there are few accommo dations, and where allthe incidental connections with traveling are so enormously high. To be sure, if they were confined entirely to trav eling by railroads, it might be a little in excess of what their actual expenses would be but when you come to strike the average of the expense of traveling on railroads and on the frontiers, where these officers are principally confined to (lot, where that duty naturally carries them, I do not think you will find the amount of ten cents at all adequate to meet the expenses which they are bound to incur in performing the duty assigned to them. The amendment was agreed to.