Mr. DOOLITTLE. This bill was reported from the ComMilAffrs, and accompanying the bill were also reported certain papers connected with it stating the facts. I can state very briefly what the facts are. In 1864 Major GenlCurtis, then in command of Kansas, urged upon the Governor of the State of Kansas to call at once to the field every able bodied man of the militia. It was when Price, the head of the rebel arm in that region, was in Missouri, and was maing his retreat toward Kansas, and it was believed that the State of Kansas was going to be invaded by General Price. Pursuant to this request of GenlCurtis, the Governor of Kansas did call out the militia, to the number, I think, of 13 or 14,000 men; and a portion of them took part in some of the battles and skirmishes with Price and his army in the State of Missouri. As they were not reularly mustered into the service of the U.S.tates, the State of Kansas passed a law, and appointed their adjutant general, SecyState, and another officer, as commissioners to examine and ascertain the amount of service which had been rendered by this militia, and the amount of material furnished by them: for, under the direction of the Governor as well as of Major GenlCurtis, these men were required to bring their rations, to employ their own teams, not to stop for a change of clothing, but to hurry at once to the field; and in fact it appeared that directly after the proclamation, within 2 days, some of the regiments were out marching toward the place oflanticipated danger. These commissioners appointed by the State went into an examination, receiving vouchers and proofs. The companies were regularly organized and had muster rolls of their own, under the laws of Kansas, as part of the ini litia of Kansas. They examined those muster rolls, took proofs, and they report an amount due to the militia for services rendered, I think of about 165,000 dollars. They also report an amount due to them for transportation, supplies, and mate rial furnished by them forage, blankets, &c. The committee were unwilling to take this finding of the commissioners on the part of Kansas as binding 11ion the Government, and therefore they have rawn the bill in this shape to authorize the SecyWar to settle these accounts upon the same basis as if these men had actually been in the service of the U.S.; and the accounts can be over hauled and examined under this direction by the bureaus of the War Dept, the quartermasters Dept, the commissary Dept, and the pay Dept, and examined with the same care that others are; and I suppose vouchers will be required by the Dept to satisfy them of what is provided for in the bill, the actual service rendered, and the actual material and supplies furnished. That is the purport of the bill. The sum fixed in it $259,000 is the sum which was found by the commissioners of Kansas to be due for services rendered and supplies furnished. The commissioners went on and found certain other damages, dam es for property lost in battle, and damages of various kinds, amounting to some 250,000 dollars more, which the committee thought it was not proper for us to allow, and we rejected it, confining the sum $259,000 to what the commissioners found to be the amount of actual service rendered and supplies furnished. That is the whole of the case as I understand it.