Mr. SCHENCK. The same as that of a major in the Army. I can give the gentleman the exact figures. It is between 2 and 3000 dollars. It depends in this, as in every other case, whether the paymaster remained here in one of the Depts instead of goin into the field. If he went into the field it won] not amount by some 7 or 800 dollars to what it would if he remained here withontthese risks, paying in one of the Depts. This, however, only reaches those who went into active service, who were engaged as disbursingofficers, handled and paid outthemoney. It does not reach or extend its benefits in any way to those who were not thus actively engaged in the properand actual business of payment in the Army. Therefore there is no inequity in it. " Paments were made in the field, and on the mare, to troops everywhere, in the front and throughout almost the whole broad extent of the pay districts of the country. They were made in most instances under the exigencies as they arose and without forms sufficient to instruct the paymasters and lead them to an exact performance of their duties so as to avoid risks. The consequence was that, so far from making their fortunes, they have been left with stoppages against their accounts because of informalities, to an average of $25,000 during the 1st half of the war in each case. What it will be when the accounts to be settled during the last half shall have been audited or adusted, it is difficult to tell, but probably it will be quite as much as for the 1st half, so that the amount of sto pages and suspensions on the average will reach $60,000, not made on account of fraud or default, but because soldiers have been permitted to sign the pay rolls with their cross, for instance, without a witness, in the hurry of camp duties and of the march. These stoppages and suspensions were made on account of irregularities or errors, arising out of difficulties under which these paymaster labored, and they reach the extent I speak of, without any imputation of fraud or wrong on the part of the paymasters themselves.