Mr. THAYER and also in the pay Dept. The officers holding commissions or at any rate a great part of them, in these Depts of the Arm are, by afew strokes of the gfntlemans pen, riven out of the Army of the U.S and deprived of their commissions; and he tells us in justification of a measureso sweeping as that, so indefensible and so full of inustice, that it is a mere question of words whether a man is to be called an adju tant or asst adjutant general. Does not every man know an? officer who is asst adjutant general in the U.S. Army holds his commission in that capacity and holds no other commission? The rank he holds is simply incident to the office he holds, and when you abolish the office he holds you deprive him of his employment and his commission. Is there any man in the House who has read this bill who will undertake to deny that this is the legal effect of the section under consideration? I apprehend not. The same thing, as I have already said, will be accomplished by subsequent sections in ref erence to the other staff corps of the Army, if this bill shall become a law in its present shape. All these gentlemen, some of whom have been in the Arm of the U.S., for many years oue of them, as I know, over 40 years officers who have spent their lives in the service of the country, and who have greatly aided in conducting it triumphantly through the late great war, are to be condemned unheard and riven from the Army. They are not to have accorded to them even the poor privilege of bein tried by the star chamber proceeding provided for in the 30 3rd section of the 11. By the 33rd section the committee invite us to provide a grand council to indict the 2000 or more officers of the Army of the U.S. This grand inquisition is to present them for trial before a petit jury of 3 officers, who, I say without hesitation, are armed by the terms of the bill with the power of conviction, but with no power of acquittal. ou do not even offer to the poor asst adjutant generals the 17 you propose to immolate by this section the chance to be presented by this grand council and tried by your petit jury of 3. You turn them out of the Army without trial, without examination, nay, Without accusation. I thought, sir, when the Gentfrom Illinois [Mr. HARDING a few moments ago, speaking of this bill, sai that the idea was to make abrilliantarmy, he was indulging in a display of that parliamenta irony which the Gentfrom Ohio conemned yesterday in the Gentfrom NewYork, Sir, it may beabrilliantarmya PteinryouGhaamvemaie]r petruted this greatinjustice and swept outalfthe officers on the various staffs who have been doing service there, some of them during the greater part of theirlives, and faithful and eminentser vice, too, without so much as a trial or accusation. It may be a brilliant army, in your estimation, after you have incorporated into your law the 29th section, which gives the POTUS power to transfer an officer at his volition from the staff to the line, from one staff corps to another staff corps, from one arm of the regular service to another arm of the service, to swap them about as politicians may request for the benefit of their favorites and followers. It may be a brilliant army, in your estimation, if you adopt the 28 h section and destroy the great and just principle of promotion by seniority in service (a principle which I maintain to be the only just and proper one regulating promotions under our system of government) and substitute for it a political se ramble for promotion. I say, when you do all this injustice and make all these disorganizing changes you may have perhaps what maybe ironically l termed a brilliant army, but it will not be an army, sir, in the military sense of that word. It will not be an army which could o pose a respectable mob. It will be, sir, itself but a mo. Now, the section which I propose to substitute is the corresponding provision of the senate bill; and 1 propose to follow it, if it shall be adopted by the House, by proposing similar substitutes in the case of all those provisions which in my jlud ent affect injuriously the staff corps of the rmy. The substitute which I offer does not disturb the present organization of the Army. It leaves it, as regards this staff corps, untouched. As it is now it does no injustice; it deprives no officer of his commission withoutahearing; it turns out no faithful officer from the service; it violates no principle, and is no injurious iunovation. It is simply the preservation of what already exists, and what, in my judgment, is infinitely better than the exeriment which is proposed.