Mr. WADE. I do not understand it to be so. I can scarcely take up a paper in which I do not find that the soldiers of the lute in my are gathering themselves together in conventions, and forming lcaguesfor the purpose of endeavoring to induce the Government to do them some measure of justice and e unlity for the services they have rendered. lllt is very true we did not contract that we would equalize the bounties but as we progressed along with this war under circumstances of such great inequality us to the compensation the soldiers received, they could not fiiil to know, as every body snw, that the justice oft lie people would somehow rectify the inequality, and do them some measure of justice. They did talk of it then; they expected that we would do something to rectify these evils; they expect it now, and they have moved, and are movin, everywhere upon this subject; and it is al vain and idle ibr us to shut our eyes to the fact that the people are moving upon this subject, and taking it into the most solemn and serious consideration. The brave men who have gone forth and encountered the perils and hardships of war nrejust mcu, lovers of their country but they have as keen a sense of justice and equality in the compensation that the Government ought to bestow upon them for the service they have rendered as anybody else; and they know us the thing stands now that it is not equal or right between them. And when we see this great army moving on this subject, and sec thutit has no effectupon Congress, I know well enough what will be the result. I know what course partisans and politicians will pursue, and how they will proceed; Sir, if our principles are right and worth preserving, we must take the means that common reason and prudence dictate to preserve those principles; and you cannot (preserve them in the face of this great army, ispersed all over this country, burning under a sense of injus ticc and want of sympathy on the part of the Congress that ought to be and that they had reason to believe was their especial friend. Turn your back coldl on them by increasing the compensation of n. lother kind of employees and it Will not answer to tell them that your Treasury is short; they naturally will ask, if that were so, how is it that you are enabled to compensate yourselves; how did you come to enhance the salaries of all other Government employees, but the moment you turned toward the soldier you had nothing in your Treasury to bestow upon him? Sir, that will not do. Upon such arguments as that we cannot hold ourposition. I feel sure ofit, and [judge by the great principles of human nature. hcse men are just men; they demand nothing of us that we cannot do, nothing that is unreason able; but it will not do to tell them that you have no sympathy for them and nothing to bestow upon them, when you have everything to bestow upon yourselves and other employees whose labors were easy, whose burdens were light, in comparison with the perils and haz ards they have encountered. Mr. President, I am admonished that it is late, and I will not detain the Senate, for I am bringing forth no new light on this subject, but I feel keenly that we must do something ifwc can do it, and we must not hurry away by some sudden impulse until we have taken time to consider this great subject in all its bearings and see if we cannot do something. Iwill not take further time now.