Mr. SCHENCK. This is the testimony of GenlHoward, and I think it is a better sort of testimony than that of gentlemen who think that one armed men are not fit to be employed in the service of the U.S., and who would disease with any further committal of trust to that gallant and distinguished officer who sympathizes with and is in favor of providing for the ae who have suffered in the cause of their country. But it may be asked, why did not these veterans return to their duty when they so far recovered as to be fit for any duty whatever? The answer is most obvious. In about 9 cases out of ten it arose from the fact that there was an order of the Dept in 1862, called the 60 day order, which provided that if an officer on account of woun s or disease should be absent 60 days or upwards, his name should be stricken from the rolls and his place supplied by another aspointment. In this we men who were wouned and who ultimately recovered for enough to be able to be employed profitably in the service fell out of the Army entirely. They found their places filled on their return to duty. But, sir, Iwas goingto speak of the character of these men who are spoken of as unfit for service, men who have found their way into this Veteran corps as “loafers” socalled. I happen to have among m papers as statement of the%age 0ft e number of the different character of the wounds received by these men against whom this tilt is now made, and I find that the%age of wounds received by the present officers of the corps is as follows: Those of them who have had one wound constitute 35%. of the whole; those who have suffered from 2 wounds constitute 25%.; those who have had 3 wounds in the serwice constitute 9%.; those who have had 4 wounds one and a half%.; those who have received 5 wounds, 1%.; those who have suffered amputation of a leg, 10%.; those who have suffered amputation of an arm, 9%; the number not wounded, but admitted because of disease or other causes disabling from duty, only 9 and a half%. t and yet people are talking about these soldiers as though theywere made u of men who had no claim upon the country y reason of having actually served in the field of battle, and of having suffered in their persons by being exposed to the bullets and bayonets of the enemy. But all these remarks are unnecessary when you take into account the fact that after all you are going to select from the whole number, that after all you throw the door wide open to all who have been wounded; and in asmuch as that is the fact, you bring it back to the reply to the general argument, that a wounded man is not tit for duty and a wounded officer cannot properly have command. Sir, the true reason leaked out from a remark which dropped from one of the gentlemen from NewYork, which I have heard repeated again and again outside, and which is in fact based upon a general opposition on the part of those now constituting the reular Army to having any Reserve corps made up of wounded men, and, as far as possible, of wounded officers. The argument 15this: that all the easy places, such as garrison duties and station duties in towns, will probably fall to the share of this corps, and the able bodied gentlemen of the regular Army will have to rough it out on the frontier posts, in the field, or athard work. Well, sir, the only reply I hav to make to that is this, that if any class of men deserve the easy places, deserve to be put on recruiting duty, in garrison along the coasts and as guards, where ever they can properly perform that duty, and not to be sent out to report on the frontier, it is exactly these men who have notonly had an opportunity to prove themselves. buthave actu a l v proved themselves, brave soldiers in the cause of their country, and have got their disability in that way and so long as that disability does not unfit them for a reasonable share of profitable duty, I say, employ them in that profitable way and give them the benefit of thus being provided for as some compensation for that which they have undergone. If anybody is entitled to easy places, it is these men. Ahl but it is said they would not be fit for the duty. I suppose not: I suppose not. A fellow with one arm could not make the salute properly! A fellow with one eye could not. maneuver his opera glass properlyl A fellow with one leg could not lead the "German;" he could not waltz properly, even with the aid of a piece of cork to supply his deficiency! Now, I trust that all such arguments Will be put aside. I trust that while we throw the doors wide open to all men of the volunteers and of the regular Army, and endeavor to build up a good and sufficient army upon a liberal system, we shall give every one a chance; that there will be no more of these miserable and narrow attacks upon and attempts at exclusion of those who, whatever be their merits otherwise, have at least proved that they have been in the way of danger.