Mr. SCHENCK. N o, sir; I cannot. With all due deference to the Gentfrom NewYork, I detest these interruptions. At the end of my remarks I will answer any questions that gentlemen desire; There is another effect of this amendment. If, by the legislation of Congress, you equalize bounties to the extent of taking care that every man shall at least have $300 out of the U.S. Treasury, if he has not obtained it from any other source, and then turn these soldiers over to their States you will find them in every State going to their Legislatures and saying, “See here what the Congress of the U.S. has done; now we want you to equalize the bounties at home; and as some men have been paid $1,000 and $1,500 and others only $300 or $400, we want you to follow the example of the Government of the U.S. an equalize the bounties in the State as congress has done throughout the U.S.;” and it will be very hard to resist that appeal when made under such a precedent; so that by taking the whole thing into account, we relieve the States from calls that may be made hereafter to equalize bounties in the States as Congress has equalized them throughout the U.S. Leaving the reference to that change, I come to the next alteration made. We cut off from the benefits of the bill substitutes. We have taken the ground that where a man was hired at some enormous cost to go into the Army for another, liewent into the Army taking all the chances and has no proper claim on the government for equalization of bounty with other soldiers who were either compelled to go or went voluntarily. There have been such cases as this before the ComMilAffrs: 2.man being drafted, a relative, without hope of reward, volunteered to go in his place; in another instance, a returned volunteer, seeing the tears of the family of a poor man who was drafted and was unable to pay for a substitute, volunteered his services and took that mans place. But these are exceptional cases. We can only legislate for classes, and leave such men to the reward of an approving conse ience and the kindness of their neighbors, who, instead of petitionin Congress, had better subscribe the $300 for these men. “ We have made another alteration y It was provided in the original bill that if a?man had been discharged on his own application or request he should be cut out from the advan tages of the bounty. In the revision we have inserted the words, “prior to the 9th day of April, 1865, ” which was the date of Lees surrender, so as not to cut off from the bounty those men who thought the fighting was all over, and finding it very easy on application to the War Dept at that time to get out of the Army, naturally did so. We save the bounty to every man who was discharged even at his own renest and upon his own application, provided he did not make that application before the fighting was done. We have inserted another revision, to which I suppose no gentleman will object, requiring that the attorney or agent, where one is engaged in the case, shall, in filing the paperof the applicant, file along with them his own statement verified by oath, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that he has not chared and Will not accept any more than the oes which the law allows. This is to prevent collusion between the attorney and the claimant, when the claimant finds the attorney unwilling to act under the law without such secret understanding. I believe that I have stated now all the mate rial differeiices between the substitute and the original bill; and I am now read to answer the question of my friendfrom NewYork, [Mr. Horoumss]