The Clerk read, as follows: Wm DEPT. PAYIABTEB Gnnsaans Orrica. wASHINGTON, April 16, 1866. Bill: In compliancewith your request, I have the honor to suggestthe reasonsfor my conviction that the number of paymasters( 40 ) provided in your bill for the reorganization of the Army is quite insufficient idfeorratthioennoef ctheesssiutibejseocft.tIheamsewrveilclec.onAvfitnecread tbhilal t(asixletyss) nwuimll bperrovtheainnatdheeqounactefi xeadnuinnsthacfeSaallnoawteance. Our troops are now being disposedof in the establishment of small ostsal over the public domain on both slopes of t. a Rocky mountains. From the headwatersof the Missouri river down the plains and through the mountain passesto the intersectionof the south line of the U.S. with the colorado river. 0n the upperMississip i, in the expanseof I nd innc ountry lying betweent o watersof the mississippi and Missouri rivers. extcpding north almost to the line of the British possessions. Then. on the Pacific slo a from Loa Angelos in California. to the upperconnesof Washington erritory. Our Army establishment proposedisto be 4fold larger than beforethe war. an with probably 3 times asman military postsas ever eretoforoex isted in the history of the country. Most of these latter are in the ranges of the Indians, where travel o verlitndby paymasters withmoneymust of necessity beunder the protection of military ese orts. Iain sure that no one in the service has had more varied and abundant experience in that sort of locomotion than I have had. Eor the most art of ten years I was engagedin paying troops in NewMexico. Arizona, western Texas. apd on the plains of the West north of the Arkansas riv crand o xtendingup to Fort Randall. on the u por Missouri river. such traveling has to be done with wagonsto carry the supplies for the party, including the cse ort.em bracing subsistence camp equipagc, cookingutensils. die. A train of this character can only make 20 to 30 miles perday and where it is not practica blo tqcarry o r procure foragefor the animals o vena lessdistanceismade perday from the necessityof giving ample time for the animals to graze. It will be readily seen from this how slow inloco motion on the plains when lar c sums of moneyare at stake and must be prote cte; and how little can be accomplishedin agiven timebyasingle paymaster under such circumstances., As an instance of the past: when Fort Laramie wasour extreme westernpostthis side of the Rocky mountains.with only ono(Fort Kearney) intermediate betweenthat and Fort Leavenworth. each 2 company posts.a paymaster supplied with funds at Leavenworth s etout to ay the 4 companies stationed respectively at earney and Laramie the distance to the latter from Leavenworth 730 miles. Here is the result: Daw. Going 730 miles at 20 miles perday 05 Returning. 36 Paying. refitting. 4 Total 11; Thus. to pay only 4 companiessituated as described. starting from the nearestpoint wheremoney was available, required 2 and 1/2 months of time. Snppose the most favorablo condition of tbings and this time could not be reducedto less than 2 months. It may be thought that ese orts and trains are expensive appliancesfor the mere conveyance of paymastersin the oxecution of thoirdnties; but propery considered they are not so. the transportatinn material is necessarily kept on hand att e depots proper to meetthe various exigenciesof the service and it is as well employed as idle. So of the troops usedas ese orts. Nothing is pdded to the current expensesof the Government. while the moral effect upon the Indians. of these frequent excursions through their country is unquestionably saIlfutar. beforethe war. with an averageof 12,025 paymasters wort scarcelysufficient for the demand is it not reasonabletocalculate that with a force of 50 to 70,000 and with the number of stations from 2 to 3 times increased. that 60 paymasters a rncot too many? I treat of a subjectentirely familiar to mein maing my estimate and I muchquestion if future experience does not demonstrate that estimateto be short rather than in excessof the demand. I be: to recur to another point in yours as well as the Senate bill which I venture to suggestneeds amendment. Your 23rd section provides. " that the pay Dept of the Army shall hereafter consist of one payMGen, wrth the rank, my and emoluments of a brigndier general." dzo. 0w. why is it not better that it read thus: that the payMGen shall have the rank pay. 490. of a brigndier general and that the pay Dept of the Army shrill hereafter consist of such payMGen.two asst payMGens. &c. Your p ruseology used Will result in making a vacancy in the otheeof payMGen.the present incumbent holding only the rank of colonc. Now. as that incumbent has exercise d the fnnctions of the otheefor near 2 yearsand through the most important and difficult era of its history. if there H ente rtninedno purpose to require him to give placc to another then the act oflegislatinir him outof service can only embarrass while serving no goodend. He was only very recciitly confirmed as PayMGen. an without opposition. The not passingin its present form. as to the action in question and to takc effactfrom its passage.than 215.6.will be an interremum during the time required for the action of the appointing power and the Sennte which will likely embrace days. Perhaps weeks. as all the vnenncics made under tho!v sectionwrll likely be pronred and up in cry respoc u 7. Your o0ntoel)austm. t servnnt B. w. Blues. PayMGen m. Hon. Ronnar 0. Summer. Chairman. Military Committee HoRep.