Mr. ROGERS. I have been greatly impressed by the remarks which have been made the distinguished chairman of the Military Committee, [Mr. Seusx ex] as well as the remarks ofother honorable gentlemen who have sustained this provision of the bill, in regard to the bravery and valor of the men who are to be provided for by this section. But I have not yet for otten that we have an interest at stake in which 30 million people are interested, far greater and above the more interest which may be contemplated by this bill for the benefit and advancement of those who have been wounded in the late war. Now, I am as willing as any man in this House to accord to the brave and gallant soldiers every effort to reward them for the duties which the have rformed upon the field of battle, which may if: within the legitimate sphere of our action. But while I am willing to accord to them all that we owe to them, I still remember that we have a great country at stake, and that we are here to t uy deliberating for the purpose of establishing an army for the whole country, to represent 30 million ieople, an army that some day may be mars aled against the combined forces and hordes of Europe, that may attempt to trample upon our rights. But the interests of this particular class of men, the particular claims that they have upon the community, must give way to the interests of the people at large. We must not allow our feelings and prejudices in favor of these men to so warp our judgments as to lead us to legislate against the best interests of the country, merely because these men have exhibited bravery and valor upon the field of battle and have been wounded. Sir, as much bravery, as much valor, as much patriotism as were ever exhibited upon the field of battle in any country, whether upon this continent or upon any other, have been exhibited during the late war by men who were not wounded at all and because men in the discharge of their duty may have received wounds that is no particular evidence of their bravery over those whose bravery undaunted defied the bullets that have whirled around them, whose bravery in battle was evinced in the most determined manner, and yet whohad the good fortune to ese ape any wounds whatever. Now, those persons who have been fortunate enough to obtain 0sitions in this Veteran Reserve corps too them with the distinct understanding at least I so understood it, and I think almost every one so understood it that that Veteran Reserve organization was merely for a temporary purpose; and because they have had the beneno of those places for 2 or 3 years of bloody warfare. without being exposed to the dangers to which other soldiers have been expose d, that is no reason why we should pass this class legislation in their favor, when they embrace not more than one out of 20 of the wounded soldiers of the Union Army.