Mr. SCHENCK. I desire to explain that section. I will preface what I have to say, however, by the remark that I presume that if in any wn it differs from what is desired by those hca s of bureaus at the other end of the avenue, they will be listened to rather than the ComMilAffrs. I say this because I wish to have the House and the country know just what the House has been doing. The committee proposed in one of these bureaus to retain every officer, and give them more rank than they ever had before thie war. The House was dissatisfied with that and they have insisted upon increasing the run of 3 of the majors out of the 13 of the Adjutant Generals Dept, so as to make 2 of them colonels and one lieutenant colonel and thus they declare that the committee is Wrong and that these gentlemen who used their influence in the other end of the Capitol are right; and that the rank which they had when we had a million men in the field was not high enough when we came to provide fora smaller army, but that they should now have additional rank. There is no reason excepting that; that is just what they had done. I thought that possibly, now the waris over, we might be able to reduce matters a little for a smaller army, below what we had during the war with myriads of men in the field. But I was so far mistaken in that expectation as to find that we cannot only not do so much as that, but that even higher rank is to be conferred upon these officers with the smaller army. am determined that this shall be understood. I am determined that it shall be known by the House and by the country how for an attempt at reform is sustained here by this House. N ow, I knew when I began that we should have difficulty in touching these bureaus. know perfectly well. as I said yesterday, that all the tendency of the legislation time out of mind had been to build up these bureaus here at Washington, and that we should find great difficulty in getting back to a souuder and more wholesome and a living condition of things. I knew that the personal, official, and social influences which surround this House would make it very difficult for any committee of this House to carry any measure of reform, to remove any abuse, to cut off any incumbrance to change anything which existed in the old condition of things, or to prevent a still further advance in the direction of higher rank, more officers, and greater pay. But the realization has one far beyond my anticipations. StIll I mean to struggle on, and to sustain what the committee have decided upon whether I am sustained by the House or not, or even by those of the committee who voted with me in the committee. I intend to struggle on and do what I can in the way of reform and I shall do so upon the principle I announced a few moments ago, when speaking upon one of these amendments, that he is a better friend of the Army as well as the country who is willing to make wholesome corrections. to remove abuses, and out off incumbrances than he who refers to accept all that has grown up. indepen out of an disposition he may have to pile more on. I think these remarks necessary as a sort of preface to the course which I shall pursue as we advance from point to point in considering these different bureaus.