Mr. SCHENCK. ladmitallthat. Iadmit they may be detailed to business outside, but others may be detailed in their places. A man will not be ordered away without having {is place supplied. So there is nothing in l. a With 19 you will probably have on for every briode in the field when troops are in service an leave the chief and 3 or 4 others to assist him. I think the chief with 3 or 4 here, and the others at posts and with brigades in the field are quite enough. If the gentleman doubts that he can test the question upon each part of this proposition instead of a substitute by moving to strike out each one of these particular Now, sir, plropositions. it is proposed that we strike out the section reported y the House committee and substitute something entirely different instead of trying the question on each one 0t these propositions and why? Because there is a 3rd objection to the House bill upon which the gentleman is eloquent which he wants to get rid of by his substitute and that is this one in the bill: and hereafter no graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. being at the time in the Army of the U.S., or havrng been thereinat any time for 3 years next receding shall be cliziblote appetintmentas an o oer in the subsistence dept. What led the committee to propose that? Not that these gentlemen were loafers. We never said that, and once for all I desire to say to my friendfrom Vermont, and to all others, that i believe the subsistence Dept has been exceedingly well managed a lthrough this war, and the officers employed here have done their duty well, whether they came from WestPoint and had their education there, or were appointed from civil life. Thatis to create the impression we are making an attack on WestPoint. No such thing. That we are making an attack a on the subsistence Dept as loafers. i O such thing. I say the subsistence Dept has done well through all of its ofhcors, and I say none probably have done better than the graduates of WestPoint in that Dept. What, then, do we mean? We mean this: that when we have educated a man for 4 years at WestPoint and made him skillful in engineering, gunnery, and general tactic, we do not want him to inspect bise uit and make contracts for beef. The gentleman challenges the world to produce any others who shall equal the glory that has been maintained upon stricken battlefields by graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. I make no issue with him, but how much they come down from their glory when they depend fora living upon inspecting “sow belly” and “ hard tack. That is the oint which the gentleman utterly avoids. We have educate these men for something else. Civilians can do that work. 514 civil ians have proved they can do the work, and there is no more necessity for having a man educated at WestPoint to make him a competent commissary of subsistence than to be a chaplain or paymaster, orto dischur any other duties which require a knowle ge of accounts and skill and ability to make contracts, to keep his accounts s usre, to pay over money received, and mne purchases according to his orders in good faith. The very thing that should characterize WestPoint proves my argument. The more of a soldier you make of ever graduate there the more incongruous it is that a man covered all over with glory, the rival of Mars, should condese end to weigh crackers and contract for beef.