Mr. WILSON. I am directed by the ComMilAffrs , to whom was referred the bill (H.R.No. to provide for the settlement of accounts40062 certain public officers, to report it back without amendment and recommend its passage. It will take but a moment, and it is very important that the bill should be passed. I ask, therefore, that it be put upon its passage at once. By unanimous consent, the bill was considered as in ComWhole. It provides that all moneys raised in the U.S. for the support of refugees or freedmen, and received by any officer of the U.S. Army, shall be charged against such officer on the bo0ks of the Treasury Dept and accounted for by him in like manner as if such moneys had been drawn from the Treasury of the U.S., and if any part thereof shall have been exended for the use of refugees or freedmen, the same shall be passed to the credit of the officer, if, upon examination of his accounts, it shall appear to the proper accounting oHicer of the Treasury that the amount expended was properly disbursed for such refugees or freedmen, and on the adjustment of the accounts of the officer, if any balance shall remain in his hands it shall be paid into the Treasury for a fund for the relief of refugees and freedmen. Any officer havin such balance in his hands, who, after being uly required, shall refuse or neg lect to pay it over, or who shall, after due notice, tail to settle his account, shall be proceeded against in the same manner as is provided for by existing laws in the case of disbursing officers who neglect or refuse to account for moneys drawn from the Treasury of the U.S. Where accounts are rendered for expenditures for refugees or freedmen, under the ap roval and sanction of the proper OHICGI‘S, antiwhich shall have been proper and necessary, but cannot be settled for want of specific appropriations, the same may be paid out of the fund for the relief of refugees and freedmen, on the approval of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a 3rd reading, read the 3rd time, and passed. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.