Mr. WILSON. I will say to the Senator that I have seen the report of the adjutantgen erals office of his State, and it is a most admirable one. I wish they had such a one in every State, and I wish we had one that recorded equally the name of every soldier that; served the Republic; but that would make a great many volumes. The report of Iowa makes 3 large octavo volumes for 70,000 men. Now, sir, here is a list of officers from the NewEngland States making 300 pages, and if it was put upon a good plan it could be got into about 100 or 125 paces. It will be seen that there is a great part of it Waste paper, and the report is imerfect in itself. What the committee desire in this matter was to stop this imperfect report and this enormous expense. If the Senate desire to sto the ub ication altogether they can do so at Itlink we had better publish the work. We can publish it in 3 good fuirsized volumes, and have a perfect list of all the officers, and the casualties, and all the incidents connected with the war. We cannot afford to sell it for one dollar a volume as is proposed here; but we could furnish 3 volhmes containing a list of all the officers of the volunteer forces of the U.S., to be placed in every library of the country, and it would certainly, in my judgment, be a work of great value. If we could have a list of the 2 million 700,000 soldiers who have gone into the service I should be glad to have it, but that would require the publication of 50 or 60 volumes, at enormous expense, and would necessarily taken. great deal of time. This report will take time, and ought to take time. We need not hurry about it. Whatv we want is to have a correct list. Mr. Defrees made a plan by which this report of 300 paves, if his plan had been agreed upon, would: have been reduced down to 125 pages, and the arrangement was far better and more intelligible than the present one. As it is now it is worthless, and I hope that no more expenditures will be incurred in publish in this volume. I believe we had better adopt this resolution, and let the Work go on at a reduced rate, but if Senators are not ready to act upon it now I will let it go over.