Mr. VANWINKLE, the Son ate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill (H.R.No. 363) supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions. The 1st section of this bill proposed to repeal section 5 of an act entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled An act to grant casions, approved July 14, 1862, " approved nl 4, 1864, and section 3 of an act entitledy“An act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions, ”:1 proved March 3, 1865, and to substitute the following in lieu thereof: That from and offer the passageof this notall perwns now by law entitled to a loss pension than here einyaeftse, r“specified.who shall have lost thesight of both who shall have lost both.hands, or beenpermanently and totally: disabled in the some, in the military or naval service andin the line of duty shall be entitled to a pension of 25 dollars permonth: and all persons who. under like circumstances shall have lost both feet, or one hand and par. foot or been totally and permanently disabled in the same shall be entitled to a pensionof 20 dollars permonth: and all persons who, under like circumstances shall have lost one hand or one foot, or been totally and permanently disabled in thesamc, shallgie entitled to a pension of 15 dollars permoat. The 2nd section of the bill declares that any ledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or or of any right, claim, or interest in any pension which has been, or may hereafter be granted shall be void and of no effect; and any person acting as attorney to receive and receipt for money for and in behalf of any person entitled to a pension shall, before receiving the money, ta O and subscribe an oath, to be filed with the pension agent, and by him to be transmitted, mth the vouchers now required by law, to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury, that he as no interest in the money by an pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed ofto an person; and any person who shall falsely take this oath shall be guilty of crjury, and on conviction, shall be liable to e pains and penalties of perjury. The 3rd section provides that any person who shall present or cause to be iresented at any pension agency any power O attorney or other paperrequired as a voucher in drawing a pension, which paper shall bear a date subsequently to that on which it was actually signed or executed, shall be deemed guilty of high misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or by both, at the discretion of the court before whom the conviction shall be had. The 4th section repeals section one ofan act entitled “An act supplementary to the severalacts relatingto pensions, ” approved March a, 1865. The 5th section provides that if any person entitled to an invalid pension has die since March 4, 1861, or shall hereafter die while an application for such pension is pending, and aiier the proof has been completed, leaving no widow and no mine r child under 16 years of age, his heirs or legal representatives shall be entitled to receive the accrued pension to which the applicant would have been entitled had the certificate been issued before his death. The 6th section provides that in all cases when a commission shall have been regularly issued to any person in the military or naval service who shall have died or been disabled while in the line of duty, after the date of the commission and before bein mustered, such officer or other person entitled to a pension for such death or disability by existin laws shall receive a pension correspondingto iis rank, as determined by such commission, the same as if he had been mustered; but this section is not to apply to any Officer who shall have will ful] neglected or refused to be so mustered. According to the 7th section, officers absent on sick leave, and enlisted men absent on sick furlou h, are to be regarded in the administration of the pension laws in the same manner as if they were in the field or hospital. The 8th section provides that the period of service of all persons entitled to the benefits of the pension laws, or on account of whose death any person may become entitled to a pension, shall be construed to extend to the time of disbanding the organization to which such persons belonged, or until their actual discharge for other cause than the expiration of the service of such organization. The 9th section declares that enlisted men employed as teamsters, wagoners, artificers, hospital stewards, farriers, saddlers, and all other enlisted men, however employed in the service of the Army or Navy, not specific allymentioned in the 1st section of an not entitled “An act to grant pensions, ” approved July 14, 1862, shall be regarded, in the administration of the pension laws, as non-commis sinned officers or privates. The 10th section provides thatif any officer, soldier, or seaman 5 mil have died of wounds received or of disease contracted in the line of duty in the military or naval service of the U.S., leaving a widow and a child or children under the age of 16 years, and it shall be duly certified under seal, by any court having probate jurisdiction, that satisfactory evidence has been produced before such court that the widow has abandoned the care of such child or children, or is an unsuitable person by reason of immoral conduct to have the custody of the same, then no pension shall be allowed to such widow until the mine r child or children shall have become 16 years of age, any previous enactment to the contra notwithstanding; and the mine r child or chi dren shall be pensioned in the same manner as if no widow had survived the officer, soldier, or sea man, and such pension may be paid to the regularly authorized guardian of such mine r or mine rs. The ComPensions reported the bill with various amendments. The 1st amendment of the committee was in section one, line 12, after the word “persons.” to strike out the word “ now;” and in line 12, after the word “who, ” to insert “ while in the military or naval service and in the line of duty."