Mr. WILSON. It may be that this bill is all right; but even if it be right, I do not intend to vote for it. I believe that if it be right and if we pass it, a great deal of wrong will fo low after it, and it will be used for thatpurpose. I think that we had better wait until we have the greater portion of our paymasters aceountssettled and have them discharged before assing such a measure as this. I remember that a year or 2 ago a paymaster at NewOrleans professed to have lost a large amount of moneivi. The robbery was charged upon ablack man. e was arrested and tortured until he made a confession. That pay master came to this city, and came to me with his papers, asking that we should pass a bill to reimburse him. I told him that whether his case was good or not he must wait until the war was over; that we had better not, as a matter of policy, enter upon any of these payments now, or the effect would be to make the officers careless and dishonest, and make them collude with others, and the Government would lose 1,000s of dollars by it, and I should vote for no case whatever while the war lasted. He went away, and within one week was arrested, imprisoned in this city for robbing himself, was tried, convicted, and is now in the enitentiary. The poor man that he tortured unti he made him make a confession to avoid further punishment was sent to the dry Tortugas. That is the case of one paymaster, and we do not know how many others may collude with dishonest persons. lhis man can wait. Let this claim and all others of the same kind lie over until we discharge most of the aymasters, who have had over 1,000milion dollars intrnsted to them in the Army, and which they have paid out, and they close up their accounts. Some of us feared that many paymasters would never be able to make uptheir accounts, and the Government would lose millions of dollars. We lost in the war of 1812 over 2 million dollars by paymasters. In this war, although we have paid out over 1,000million dollars to the Army, the report of the PayMGen shows that we have not lost more than a quarter million dollars. I think we oughtto hold paymasters to a rigid accountability for the money placedin their and s. We ought not, at any rate, to be in any hurry to relieve any man. It may be an inconvenience to him; but I believe if we Hess this bill, although it may be equitable, it wi drag along with it many dishonest cases, and may induce men hereafter to rob themselves, or collude with others, or do some dishonest thing. I think this matter had better lie over for the public good. 1 shall vote against it.