Mr. COFFROTH. I will say that I am; and that in 49 or 52 years from this time I hope that ever man who represents the people in this house will vote to place upon the pension roll every man who foughtin this war. " Mr. HALEJI Well, Mr. Speaker, I am very glad to hear it. It oomports with my idea of the liberality of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania. Profits!” alieni liberal with other people’s money. Sir, I come herein no such spirit. I do not believe that it becomes us to talk even of giving pensions to every soldier who served in the late war. Why, the gentleman knows, and every man endowed with an ordinary share of common sense knows, that we might as well talk about buying the moon as pensioning the million and more of soldiers who served in the late war. This proposition, if it he meant as on entering wedge to a proposition of the kind which the Gentfrom Pennsylvania now suggests, is certainly a proosition for nothing more nor less than nationa bankruptcy. No man believes that we can pension the soldiers of the late war, giving a pension to eve man who has served in the armies of the U.S., and survive, or begin to survive, the expense entailed by it. If we are not prepared to follow it out logically, as the gentlemen from Pennsylvania proposes, why in eaven’s name begin with these soldiers of the war of 1812? The gentleman’s argument has at least the merit of consistency. If this bill passes, we ought, in justice, to pension everybody else who served in any war, or smelt owder any where. If the sentiment of this house is that we should at once pass a bill that will involve. an expenditure' of from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000 a year for pensions, let us do it boldly and directly, an not come at it in this circumloeutory fashion. I believe, Mr. Speaker, that the passage of such a bill as this through this House would be such a sign of, to say the least, eas virtue, in regard to the administration of the nances of this country that it would tend greatly to ward unsettling the credit of the nation; and if we are to adopt it upon the terms proposed by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, on the understanding that it is to be followed by such a bill as he proposes, then I submit we ought at once to avail ourselves, as a nation, of the advantages of the bill which was proposed and advocated during this session by the Gentfrom RhdIsland, [Mr. Jssesssj and which has passed this House. We shall need to avail ourselves of a bankrupt law; and I fear, sir, we shall not show assets enough to entitle our selves to a 1st class certificate. For one, I trust this measure will be defeated squarely, and therefore I move that the bill be laid on the table. TheSPEAKER. The Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Cosrso'rii1is entitled to the floor until he surrenders it. After that the motion to lay on the table will be in order. The gentleman has yielded only for remarks.