Mr. TRUMBULL. Well, Mr. President, is a loyal man in a disloyal State, who with trea son all around him, at the hazard of his life and everythin he had, stood by the Government, not to go paid for his property because he happens to be located there? Sir, I am for encouraging loyalty in the disloyal States; and the man who has been tempted and tried, who with all the communit around him engaged in the rebellion, stood out, in the midst of the fiery furnace, for the Union, and furnished property to feed our armies, I am for aying. A great mistake has been made in this government in not distinguishin between the loyal and disloyal men in the rebellious States. If, at the beginning of this war, we had made it as terrible to the traitor in the disloyal States as the traitors made itto the loyalmen, we should have had a loyal party there. If we failed in anything, it was in not protecting our loyal men in the dislo '21]States. Now, sir, this bill is not a bill to pay traitors. It is guarded carefully against bein used for any such pnr ose. Most of the claims that arise under tiis bill will have to go to the Court of Claims a much safer place to send them, in in judgment, than be are any committee of congress or any board of commissioners. We have organized here a court of 5 judges, able men, with attorneys whose special duty it is to defend the interests of the Government, who cross examine witnesses, who upon a claim simply upon an aflidavit ezparte which is brought in, as is the case before the committees of Congress; but before a claim is allowed by that court it undergoes a thorough judicial investigation. We have officers appointed whose (Iuty it is to cross examine witnesses and introduce new testimony on behalf of the Government, and the Government will be protected there. 100s and 1000s an millions of dollars will be saved to this Government by compelling parties who claim to be loyal to go before this tribunal and establilsh their loyalty by legal evidence; establish the fact that their property was taken for the support of the Union rmy; that it was taken by the proper officer; that it was actually used by the Union Army; and when they establish these facts, which this bill requires, subject testimony to legal tests, who do not pass, and that the claimant has been and is loyal. that you took his provisions to feed your Army, that your proper officer took them, I say this Government is bound to pay for them, and sooner or later we will pay for them; and I want to say to the few loyal men all over the rebellious States that, for one, I am ready to pay now. hear the Senfrom Massachusetts