Mr. CHANLER. Innderstond this amendment to allow any soldier who has been wounded in the U.S. service to be promoted to be an officer of the Veteran Reserve corps. I understand the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. Sousse u] in this amendment, to have adopted the sucation of the Gentfrom Forms 1 vauia, Mr. Sunnus] and from the point of view in which I look at it I recognize in it a step in the right direction. I suppose it is the effort of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania to include the colored troops and permit them to be made officers of the veteran reserve corps, and that is proper, that is just, that is consist eat with the teachings of the modern “ Moses.” [Laughter] and if gentlemen will only go on in that direction they will reorganize the Americon Army on a basis that will make it irresistible. They can “ carry the war into Africa." They can overcome all sections and all sexes. I hope it was in that spirit that the Gentfrom Pennsylvania made that suggestion. Criesof“Louderl”] Louder! Sir, {consider t suggestion of the Gentfrom Pennsyl vunia loud enough. t speaks in trumpet tones of the philanthropy and patriotism of that gentleman. Sir, I do not think the Gentfrom Ohio has looked into this question as deeply us he should have done. I think he has allowed himselfto be duped by the astute mind of the able chairman of the Committee on appropriations, and if he is not careful he will fin an)ill introduced here makings. specific appropriation for this very class of ofhcers; for Officers taken from among the colored troops of the line who have been wounded in the service of their country. For it must be borne in mind that the appropriations which have been made “r the my as now organized will not be sufficient for what is here pippose d. This is a new movement; one in the right direction, but still a new movement. The Gentfrom Ohio is being led in a direction he knows not whither. If the American armies shall be organized as is proposed, if the colored troops are to be brought into the organization, as is proposed by him and by the distinguished Gentfrom Pennsylvania, he must consider the effect upon the existing organization of the Army. Accepting the proposition that has been laid down here by gentlemen on the other side of the House, that the black man is superior to the white man, then we must provide means for retiring our white officers. It is not possible that the competition can exist with safety to the white officers. We have been told by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Srnvnxs] that the battles of this country have been won by the colored troops, led by white officers, to be sure. But suppose those troops are to be led by black officers, as suggested by the Gentfrom Permsylvania, where are your white otheers to go? submit to the Gentfrom Ohio that he shall look well into these questions. He is amending this bill in a manner which will defeat it. There are gentlemen on the other side of the House who cannot stand this thing; there are gentlemen who are not ready to officer the U.S. armies with colored officers. We have refused. through our committees, upon a direct application to this House by ctition, to appoint colored soldiers as officers; but by this act of indirection, as suggested by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, the ComMilAffr are being duped into following a course which they themselves have already refused to take, and they will stand stultified upon the record of the case. My friendfrom Wisconsin [ML ELDRIDGE] suggests that this is a movement toward the tropics; that it is an effort on the part of the sngncious chairman of the ComAppropriat to move toward Mexico and tie tropics; to take possession of those countries where the white man wilts and turns yellow, and where nothing blooms but the cactus and the negro. Sir, this insidious effort on the part of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania to destroy the American Army is in keepin with his successful effort to force the civi rights bill upon this House, to reduce the dignity of American citizenship, overriding the veto of the President, and placing the 0 so dicit of a peculiar clique upon the laws oflihc country. hppe, before it is too into, before the military ommittee is utterly committed to this fol y by its too great trustfuluess in the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, this matter will be so ventilated and placed before the country that all may know whether or not the chairman of the ComMilAffrs is aware of his position, whether or not he really means that the wounded and disabled colored soldier shall be made an officer of the Army of the U.S. Let that gentleman come for ward and avow whether or not he is in earnest upon that subject, or whether he is innocently a lowing himself to be misled by the eat philanthropist of the country, the venerable statesman from Pennslvauia.