Mr. DAVIS, of NewYork. I move to strike out section 16 and in heu thereof to insert the followmg: Abife: That the quarterMGens Dept of the Army 5 all hereafter consist of one quarterMgen, with the rank, pay and emoluments of a rigudier general; 6 asst quarterMGens, witht O rank, pay, und emolunionts ofcolonelsofcavulr; 12 deputy quartorMGens, with therun. pay, and emoluments of lieutenant colonels of cavalry; 20 quartermastors, With the rank, pay and emoluments of majorsof cavalry: and 48 asst quarterruastors, with the rank, pay and emolumentsof captainsof cavalry, and the vacancieshereb created in the gradeof asst qunrtermaster shal befilled by selection from among the personswho have remdered meritorious service as asst qunrtermnstors of volunteersduring 2 yearsof the war. The substitute which I have offered is one which was prepared under the supervision of 2 distinguished generals whose names have been mentioned heretofore and I understand that a bill containing this very provision was submitted to the gentleman who reported this bill, and that the original is now in this city with the interlineations. But whether it is so or not, I think there are many reasons why the 16th section, at least, as reported by the committee, should be amended. I understand that the chairman of the committee consented to an amendment to the 13th section in relation to the Adjutant Generals Dept; and I asked him if he had any amendment to propose to this section; because I inferred, from the course taken in regard to the other and the amendment which he offered thereto, that at least the same justice would be done to gentlemen in the quar termasters Dept that he had conceded to those in the Adjutant Generals Dept. It will be observed by the provisions of this section that the nomenclature of all the asst qnartermasters in the Deptofn. certain rank is entirely changed, so that the same effect will be produced precisely in that Dept, as was shown by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [ML Than rm] as is produced in the Dept of the Adjutant General. We have, for instance, under the provisions of this bill, 44 quartermasters with the rank, pay, and emoluments of catains of cav alry. There are in the existing Qhatermaater Generals Dept, Ithiiik, fort ourasst quartermasters, with the run, pay, and emoluments of captain. There is no such grade established by this bill. Therefore the is, al effect, as I submit to the Gentfrom Ohio, [Ills 8053862] of using this section and making it a law, would be to legislate out of office every person in the QuarterMGens dept of the rank of captain who now hol s a commission as asst quar termusier with that rank. My cat object is to do exact justice to the officers in that epartr merit as to those in every other Dept and I will say that the same effect will he produced upon 3 colonels and 4 lieutenant colonels who are now commissioned as asst quartermasters general and deputy quartermasters general. he commission runs by the nomenclature established by the existing law. The rank of deputies and assts is entirelyincidentto theircommission. Theyare not commissioned as captains, majors, or colonels, but as asst quartermasters general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of lieutenant colonels, majors, or captains, as the case may be. Therefore whenever the office is abolished which now exists by name in the present law, the abolition of that office removes at once the party holdin this particular commission and he is retired from the regularArmy; he islegislated out of the Army and holds no commission in it. Now, I have no disposition to take up the time of the House, but I think that the provisions of the Senate bill in that particular do full justice to all parties, and I know not what reason the honorable chairman of the committee ean assign against the adoption of that proposition. It is true that in another part of the section, at the close of it, there is this provision: The SecyWar may assignat any time from among the otfiecrsof the quarterrnustersDept an officerto serve as chief quarterinnster of a goo graphical military division, or of a separatearmy in the field, consisting of not less than 10,000 men, who shall have. while so assignedand acting, the rank, pay, and emolumentsof a bridier General: but not more than 2 officersshit 1 hold such assignedrank at any ono time, and any such offioer relieved from the assigned duty shall return to his lineal rank in the Dept.