Mr. GARFIELD. A few days ago there Prayer Cleveland to Pittsburg came from the Public Printer Executive Document No. 125, bein a communication from the SecyITeasury, transmitting, in answer to a House resolution, “ a statement of the amounts paid for salary and mileage to the members of the 38th Congress.” Without. troubling the House with a full examination of that document, I call attention to this fact: I find my own pay set down for the term of 2 years, at $3, 750. That is correct, as there were 9 months for which Idid not receive pay as member of Congress, being an officer otpthe Army during that time. I am also set down as having received mile age for 2,000 740 miles of travel, that is allowing atrip each way for each session of Congress, or 4 trips in all, making the estimated distance between my place of residence and this city 685 miles. The amount was so much larger than my own recollection of it that I went to the cities of the Sergeant at Arms of the House and procured the original letter which I sent to the Mileage Committee upon the subject last year. The letter is as follows: Houss or RsrFneabssrusarrluyr.ivns. 16.1865 Drum Sm: In answer to your circular of yesterday, Ihave the honor to say:, l. The rputo bywhich I reachthis cityis VIZLIClBVO land. Olno, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania and Ba timorc, Maryland. 2. The distance.as given in Appleton’s Railway Guide. is. from Hiriim (my residence)to Cleveland. Pittsburi: to Harrisburg. Harrisburg to Baltimore. Baltimore to Washington. Total. 565 3. Distance from Hiram (my place of residence)to Cleveland.Ohio. 41 miles. Very respectfully.your obedieJ.ntservant A. GARFIELD. Hon, AUGUSTUS FRANK, C'hainnan Gnmnillee on Multiplying the amountI gave in that letter by 4 would make my total amount of miles for which I should have received mileage 20 206t miles, or 480 miles less than I am set down in this report as receiving mileage for. On the back of this letter I find this indorsement: “565 miles claimed; 685 miles allowed; approved: J. W. W.;” which, I believe, are the initials of the chairman of the Committee on Mileage of the 38th Congress. Itap ears, then, thatI was credited with 100)and 20 miles more of travel on each trip than I ever claimed to be entitled to receive mileage for. Members were usually paid, as every gentleman here knows, in installments of small amounts from time to time, scattered over the 2 years, the members keeping no account in most cases of the amounts they receive, but leaving that with the Sergeant at Arms and Committee on Mile age. At least such were the facts in my own case. Several members from the West, and perhaps from other arts of the country, have been Credited with 1 more miles of travel than they claimed to have been justly entitled to receive pay for. I find that to be the case with several of my colleagues from Ohio. My colleague from the Cleveland district [Mr. SVALDIXG] was allowed on the books of the Sergeantat Arms 634 miles of travel on each trip, while he claimed but 510. And in the case of my colleague from the Dayton district, [Mr. SCHENCK, I find 689 miles claimed by him and 812 miles allowed by the committee. For tunately, in the latter case, on the last day of the session, when he [Mr. Scusxex] went to obtain his final balance of pay, he appears to have discovered this improper allowance and required a statement of the items. He found that they had allowed him mileage for 113 miles pertrip more than he had claimed, and indorsed on the account his refusal to receive the additional amount. I see that these fuctsai'e as new to the members around me as they were to me when I 1st saw the official report from the SecyTreasury. It zippears that the Committee on Mileage settled upon ascale of distances without the knowledge or consent of the House or of the members whose accounts they thus changed, and in the report of the Secretary, now published to Congress and the country, many are set down as having received amounts of mileage considerably larger than they actually claimed. I have therefore given notice that on next MondayI shall ask unanimous consent to introduce the resolution which has been read at the Clerk’s desk. that the Committee on Mileage may inquire how this discrepancy arises, take measures to correct it, and may in the future uard against any such injustice both to the Preasury and to members.