Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, I do not desire to go at any length into a discussion of this subject, even if the limitation of 5 minutes would allow it. This question of the term of enlistments in the Army of the U.S. was fully considered when the bill was before under discussion. The House then sustained the idea that in this country enlistments for 3 years arclon enou h. To the argument then advanced in avor 0 that term of enlistment, there may, however, be added a consideration founded on what the House has done since that time. The House has recently passed a bill providing for the pay of the Army; and among its provisions or the payment of the privates is a stipulation that every private shalL receive for one successive year 0 service an addition ofonc dollarger month to his regular monthly pay; so that e will receive 17 dollars permonth for the 2nd year, 18 dollars the 3rd year; and if he rehiilists, 19 dollars the 4th year, 20 dollars the 5th, &c. I hold that this provision will do more to induce men when once enlisted to remain in the service, will have a greater effect in preventing desertion and making good and exerienced soldiers of the men, than any re nlation of the term of enlistment, whether it be fixed at one, 5, or ten years. I will not repeat the argument with reference to the rapidity with which Americans leisrn the part of war and all that relates to military life. That has already been fully discussed. Americans, as a general rule, live faster and learn faster than the people of other countries; and when they serve 3 years in the Army theygive more out of their lives than, most Europeans do if they serve ten years; because the Europeans are a slower people. So far as regards experience in horseman ship. the whole difficulty may be obviated by having the recruiting stations for cavalry in those arts of the country where men are accus tome to ride in their civil occupations. Let the recruiting agents for cavalry be stationed by the War Dept in the western States or in mountaine us regions or down in the South; in a word, in those sections of the country where nearly every man is, if not born, at least brought up to be, almost a centaur, half man and half horse. I think that b the exercise of discretion in this respect on the part of the War de artinent, the difficulty suggested by the Gentfrom NewYork may be alto gether obviated. The amendment of Mr. DAVIS was not agreed to.