Mr. WOODBRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, we are told by members of the ComMilAffrs that this change in the name and rank of the officers in the Adjutant Generals Dept came to them on the recommendation of the QuarterMGen. Now, if it came from the QuarterMGen, as I have no doubt it did, from the gentlemans statement, he has certainly been ilty of great weakness, or else, certainly, of oing great injustice to his corps. An if the provisions of this bill are adhered to, when the time comes, I shall move that the rank of quarterMGen, which General Meigs has very well for own purposes kept in e bill, shall be reduced to that of chief quartermaster. If we are to have nothing but uartermasters, then the man at the head of tabs Dept should be chief quartermaster. But I am sure the House do not want to do injustice, and that when they see what the operation of this bill will be, in law, they will not sustain it. Here we have 17 officers in the adjutant Generals Dept who have passed the best part of their lives there, and nobody has ever found fault with the way in which they have discharged the duties of their important cflices. They have been there during the better portion of their lives. There is no accusation against them; no charge. They were commissioned as what 2 As asst adju tant generals; and if this bill passes those men will, in spite of their services in that Dept and in the Army, under their commissions as udjulant generals, by the law drop out of the service. The office will be abolished; there will be no such rank in the vAdjutant Generals Dept, and hence they will be dropped from the rolls of the Army without any charges being made against them; and when everybody knows that they have performed their duties well and faithfully. Now, lam quite sure, thatthe chairman of the ComMilAffrs [Mr. Soul 180:] cannot entertain the same view of the operation of this section which I do; for he is a just man; and I am sure he does not desire to do injustice to these men who are valuable to the Gavernment in the positifins which they occupy. Now, I do say and I beg the members of the House to listen to me a moment that if this bill passes in its present shape these 17 men will, by Virtue of its provisions, as a matter of law, be absolutely and forever unless they should be reappointed, dropped from the rolls of the Army. Who asks that that shall be done? Who would favor such a great injustice? Why, sir, even areappointment would not reinstate them, because their commissions would be dated at the time of their reappointment, and that would make a great difference in their pay, their positions, their rank, and in every way. I hope the amendment of the Gentfrom Maine, [Ma BLAINE] which has been accepted by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. Tasman] will prevail, because I think it is ust.