Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, about 25 Veteran Reserve regiments were created with more than 600 Officers. Many of these officers, in fact, so far as I know, all of them, are most excellent Officers and excellent gentlemen; but they were organized for ase cial purpose, and they have performed that duty, I believe, well. Several of those officers are now employed specially by the Freedmens Bureau, an have rendered and are rendering excellent service. When I introduced the original bill, it provided for 8 regiments “to be composed of men who have been wounded or discharged from service on account of disease contracted in the line of duty, the officers of which shall be selected from the Veteran Reserve corps or other Officers of volunteers who have been disabled in the service.” My idea was to organize 7 or eivht regiments of men who had been won!“ ed, and that they should be officered by the officers of the Veteran Reserve corps or other wounded Officers, because the country is full of other wounded officers who have not been in the Veteran Reserve corps, and who are entitled certainly to the same consideration as the officers of that cors; but all the generals who have been consu ted in regard to this reorganization of the Army very strongly oppose any attempt to organize regiments composed of wouned or disabled men. They say that a large%age of the men that are enlisted are always disabled men and will be in all the regiments; and that separate regiments ought not to be formed of men who are disabled. The duty generally assigned to the Veteran Reserve regiments aboutthe hospitals and guard duty in the country is over b the end of the war, and now we have to senregiments into the field, especially into the mountains and on the frontier where the duty will be retty heavy and pretty hard. The leading o cers of the Army are very strong in opposition to organizing such regiments. The officers of the Veteran Reserve corps, however, and the officers who have been wounded in the service will, under this bill, stand on the same footing as others; and I think that wherever the Government can take care of any of the wounded officers it ought to do so whether they have been in the Veteran Reserve corps Or not. If I had to make a selection of officers under this bill, I should certainly be careful that the dtficers selected were abundantly qualified, and had the scars of bat tle upon them. I should endeavor as far as possible to put such Officers into the public service. If, however, they are so wounded that they cannot perform their duties, the public servrce must always be cared for before individuals. The committee after mature consideration reported the bill in its present form. There was, I may say, some division in the committee in regard to it; but the military men, the high Officers of the Army, have obeen from the beginning very strenuous against organizing regiments of wounded or diseased men, or officering entire regiments with wounded men. They are all, however, so far as I know from their expressions, in favor, where they can do it, of putting men into the service who have been wounded in battle.