Mr. SCHENCK. I have already remarked that my modification of the 27th section was proposed after consultation With a'dis tinguished officer of the Adjutant Generafs dept. The 28th section was also the subset of consideration in my consultation with im, that being the only other sec. tIion to which he desired to call my attention. have assented to the propriety of some modification in this section; and I therefore move to amend by striking out all after the enacting clause of the section and inserting the following: That wheneveran officer of the staffor of the line shall be deemedunfit tedfor or inefficientin the performanceofhis duties in the particular corpsor arm of the service in which he may be. the President is authorised to transfer him to someother staff corps or arm of the line: but an officer on beingso transferred shall only take such rank in the and or corps in which heis placedashe heldbycommissionin the staffer line beforehis transfer. It will be observed, Mr. Speaker, that excepting the transposition of the clauses of the sentence, this is the same as the section of the bill, with this difference: it assigns an expla nation of the occasion upon which the President may make this transfer. In thus as signing the reason for making the transfer, it carries out more clearly the object of the committee. Very often there may be found in the uartermaster’s dept an officer who wonlld make a good officer of the line, having perhaps more capacity and propensity for fighting than for keeping accounts. Sometimes, on the other hand, an officer of the line would remder more efficient service in one of the staff depts. In some cases, a quartermaster would make a better adjutant, or an adjutant a better commissary. This substitute, therefore, provides that when an officer is deemed in any respect unfitted for the peculiar duties of the particular arm of the service to which he belongs, this transfer shall be made, not implying any imputation upon the character of the officer, but being based on the fact of his greater fitness for the branch of the service to which he is transferred.