Mr. EDMUNDS. How authentic they are we do not know. Who are the agents; who are the specuiators; who are the politicians because the category would be ineom lcte without them that are pressing this se ieme and through what means is it that the result is to be obtained? There have been brought upon us bill after bill upon this subject which had to all appearance an origin (if I may say so with all respect to the Senfrom Massachusetts) in some military grab bag, without form or comeliness, not providin in one of them at all for those who have perishedor have been lost in anywise to their ability to serve themselves 7 or to be useful to the country, from disease; i another which. while it professes to equalize bounties, savs to the man who reenlisted in 1863 or 18154.nn served his country through, “ You must take out of your pocket 0. part of the bounty which we paid to you, and pay it to your brother in the same regiment who did not reiinlist but went home, as an act of equalization, as an act of justice.” It does not deserve the name. Mr. President. Then when you turn to the soldier as a citizen, as a tax payer, as a member of the great body of the community, you 5y to the soldier of an eastern State, “You shall receive nothing of this bounty, " as the House bill provided he should not. "but you shall pay out of your treasure and the accumulations of your earnings to the soldier of some western State that has not been provided for.” I believe the soldiers of the western States. gal lant and just men as the are, would scorn to take money raised in sue a way, because it is un'ust and unequal. I do not want to be told that I am opposed to the soldier and am not willing to do justice to him, because these crude and unperfeeted and unjust and unequal schemes are forced upon us on an appropriation bill at the last moment of the session, and gentlemen with high words for the benefit of their party tell us that we are to lose votes because we are not providing for the soldier! It is not statesman ship; it is not justice; it ought not to prevail.