Mr. GARFIEL. I hope that the amendment of the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. VAX Asnsm will not prevail, because in the 1st place I do not see the reasons why we should dispense with the office of regimental qommissary. But still it may be that when the general discussion on that: subject shall come up, I may be led to take a different view from that which I now hold. Hence, without pronouncing either for or against the proposition, I hope the gentleman wi I not press the amendment until we come to the section which treats of the organization of a regiment. While on the floor, I wish, if the gentleman will allow me, to say a word with reference to my amendment, in response to the remarks of my colleague, [Mr. SCHENGK] I do not believe that the amendment which I offer as a substitute for the latter portion of this section will embarrass at all the general provisions of the bill. The whole manner of selecting these officers, so far as it is set forth in my amendment, was borrowed bodily from one of the subse qnent sections of the bill as it lies before me; and therefore itwill not, if adopted, be apatch or a blotch upon the bill. As it is now proposed to have ten to iments consolidated and known as the Veteran teserve cors, it seems to me that we shall have trouble in t 2 future in continuing the organization of that corps. Is this corps to be kept up perpetually I Manifestly not; for the day will come, we trust, when we shall not have, among the opulntion of this country, a sufficient number of men wounded in military service to supply the ruks of this Veteran Reserve corps. The time will therefore come when young blood will be infused into the Army and when this Veteran Reserve corps wrll cease by the very inability to enlist men of the class described. Now, why not let those of this class come in and be at in separate companies if the SecyWar so c ioose s, and when they fail to come forward in sutficient numbers to keep filled up the ten regiments their places can be supplied without the necessity for any new legislation? You will not then have to tear down the structure of your Arniy. It can move on under its present organizution, and without a jar. but if you at into the Army this Veteran Reserve co slby name ifyou have a specific, definite, we l defined body of men known as the Veteran Reserve corps you will be obliged some day to reform your legislation, and remodel your Army, simplybecause of this provision for the Veteran loserve corps as a permanent branch of the Army. I desire that we shall organize our Army in such a way that it can be maintained permanently without the necessity hereafter of new legislation, when it shall be no longer practicable to preserve a V eteran Reserve cors. Besides, sir, who news that we want just ten regiments of this sort consolidated in one body? A company of these disabled soldiers may be required, for instance, at Milwaukee or at Sault Ste. Marie. A company, or 2 companies, may be required here or there along the northern border, alou the Atlantic sea board, on the Gulf, or on the exicun front ier; and sometimes a regiment or half a regiment of able bodied troops may be required in conjunction with one or 2 companies that may not be classed as able bodied. Therefore let the SecyWar have discretion, if you please, for one regiment of disabled heroes, for one company of these disabled men in a regiment, and 9 companies of able sound men. Let us not compo him to have a whole regiment made u entirely of only that class of persons. Let im distribute them through the Army as the best interests of the service mtg demand. ow, it is proposed by this bill he shall have these ten regiments known by a special name and collected in a special body. I think it will work evil to the Army, and it will certainly be inharmonious. I am thoroughly persuaded if the amendment I have offere be adopted, with a few amendments, not in the spirit, not in the structure, but only in the incidental form, we will make it a more acceptable and desirable bill.