Mr. TROWBRIDGE. I trust the House will not follow the recommendation of the committee on this subect, and I Will state the reasons why it should not. This regiment of eav alry was one of the 1st raised in the State during the war. It went through the regular term of service and reienlisted as a veteran regiment. After the surrender of the rebel army this regiment, for some cause, was sent to Utah when their term of service was within about 2 months of expiration. After having been retained in the serVic ca little more than ayear longer than their term of enlistment would have held them, they were informed in March last, by a mastering officer, that if they would consent to be mustered out there, at Salt Lake City, they might do so, and they should receive commutation for transportation home, but if they did not thus consent they would be retained in the sen/ice an indefinite length of time. All but 79. I think, of the regiment assented to the arrangement were accordinrrly mustered out and receive commutation, the men naturally supposingdhat the commutation would equal or nearly equal at least their expenses home. But when tiey came to ascertain the ratio at which commutation is estimated, the found it only furnished them about one thiri the necessary means to get home. Many of them, however, struggled omo spending their own money, but some of them are today, according to my last information, at Salt Lake City, for want of the means to get home to their families and friends. Some of these are my own constituents and their fami lies need their support. I claim that it was a palpable wrong to comel those men to make their election either to lie mustered out there or to remain in the service long after their term had expired. The proposition of the Senate is simply to pay them the actual cost of getting home, and it seems to me so plainly just that I do not feel any further necessity of urging it, except to say, without disparaging any other regiment, that this 1st regiment of Michigan cavalry was one of the best that ever entered the service. At the terrible battle of Gettysburg they made what was pronounced by all military men one of the most magnificent charges ever made by cavalry, absolutely defeating a flank movement of the enemy whichwas beingproseented to success. The men have felt that it was a hardship to be thus retained in service longer than their term, and especially to be mustered out away 06' on the frontier, compelling them each to spend, as they have spent, about 200 dollars of their own money to get home. It is a plain injustice. This proposition is simply to pay these men what it has cost them to get home. '