Mr. Spher, I hold in my hand the billnow before t 10 House reported by the ComMilAffrs. I also hold in my hand Senate bill No. 67, which, as I now understand, the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [MLTHAYER] embodies substantially the recommendations of the generals. I find that in the bill now before us there are provided for 6 quartermasters, with the rank of colonel; in the Senate bill, recommended by the generals, there are also 6 nartermasters, of the rank of colonel. I find at in the bill before us there are ten quartermasters provided for with the rank of lieutenant colonel; but I find in the Senate bill, No. 67 there are 12 officers of that rank provided for. I find that the bill now before the House provides for 15 majors, while the Senate ill, to which the gentleman refers, makes provision for 20 officers of that grade. I find that of captains in this service the bill before the House provides for 44, while in this Senate bill, which the gentleman says embodies the recommendations of the generals, there are 48. otheers of that grade provided for. how, it seems to me that if the gentleman has presented an amendment here which reduces the number of officers of these several grades below the number provided for in the bill reported by the committee, he is still further from followin the recommendations of the generals than e committee itself. It may be true, as the gentleman has said, that the generals have recommended different titles for these several rades of officers to those the committee of this House have recommended, and in that respect, so far as the mere nomenclature goes, it may be true that the amendment offered by the gentleman, or rather the Senate bill No. 67, is nearer the recommendation of these general Officers than that the House committee has approxnnated vastly nearer to the recommendations of those distinguished generals, in the bill which they have introduced, and which is now before the House, than the distinguished Representative from Pennsylvania has done in the amendment which he offered. I will now yield to the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. Connmse ] for his question.