Mr. GARFIELD. It will be large enough to Officer ten regiments of the class of men now designated in the bill as the Veteran reserve corps and 8 regiments designated as colored troops. Under this bill the military authorities, in making up the Army, are required to take in as many disabled officers as are needed to officer ten regiments of disabled soldiers, and the whole is to be a separate organization, known by a separate name, the Veteran reserve corps. lily amendment adopts the spirit and policy of the bill so far as to allow ticse disabled men to enter the Army, but it proposes to do away with these separate and s ccial organizations with distinctive names. Vhen the President, under the committees bill, appoints men for the colored regiments, he must a point men who have served as officers of colored troops. Instead of saying just such men and none other shall be appointed to command these troops, my amendment throws open the door to all officers of the Army, whether they have served in colored troops or not, and any officer apointed will be liable to be put in common of colored troops. As the bill stands, we establish a colored Dept, and provide a special mode for the appointment of officers for that class of troops. We also establish a Veteran Reserve corps or invalid Dept, and provide a special mode for the appointment of a class of officers for it. By this separate origin and a poiutment of officers, to be known by. specia names, to be ordered to special duty it seems to me we have built up separate and dissimilar organizations, which will produce endless confusion, and make a weak and disjointed army. The Army of the U.S., Mr. Speaker should not be an open hand with outspread fingers, but rather a doubled fist, a unit, nonsolidated as nearly as possible into one lll mo eneous or nization, so that a colonel of infantry sha l he a colonel for all infantry poses, and purn colonel of cavalry a colom for all cavalry purposes, without regard to color or sanitary coddition of the soldiers be war mands. I believe the amendment I have suggeifed, while it will require a slight modification of a few sections of the committees bill, will iv irk harmoniously and remove the most SERIOUS objections to what is known as the Vetiisn Reserve cors.