Mr. SAULSBURY. I believethis bill comes from the ComMilAffrs. I have all due respect for their judgment, but it is obnoxious to so many objections of a legal character that I really think it ought to be committed to the ComJudiciary. What earthly power, I would ask the Senfrom Massachusetts, has the Congress of the U.S. to regulate the compensation which a private citizen of the U.S., in any of the States or Territories of the Union, may choose to make to any other private citizen for services rendered? Just as much authority has the Congress of the U.S. to prescribe by law that no man shall hire a soldier at a less rice than so many cents or so many dollars a day, as it has to pass this act. If the Congress of the U.S. has a right to say that none of the soldiers who have served in the Army of the U.S shall give to any attorney more than ten dollars, it has a right to say they shall not give less to any attorney than ten dollars; and if you have a right to say those things, you have a right to say that no person shall employ, to work on his farm. anyone who served in the Arm of the U.S. for a sum less than one dollar nor more than one dollar. Has it come to this, that the powers of this Government have become so. enlarged that it. can enter into all the private transaction: of life, regulate the compensation betwcen clients and attorneys throughout the U.S., regulate the prices of wages throughout he U.S.? If it can do the one, it. can do the other. Most of these soldiers are no longer in the armies of the U.S.; they have been disbanded, and have returned to their homes, and are following the peaceful avoations of life. It goes further. It extends to any contract made l)Cl. WcOll the heirs of any of those soldiers and attorneys. I have no earthly interest, personally or professionally, in the matter; at, as an attorney, if I was to draw the papers in any such case, certainly I should not expect to be regulated by any act of Congress. I raise this objection to the bill because, in mv judgment, it is wholly without an warrant of authority, and I therefore move either that it. be recoinmitted to the ComMilAffrs, or that it be committed to the ComJudiciary.